Just installed iOS 9.0.2 and iBooks messed up ally PDFs are in the PDFs folder as well as my catorgories. Previously PDFs folder/ shelf only contained newly downloaded PDFs, so I knew what was new. Now it is just a total mess, which idiot decided to

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Just installed iOS 9.0.2 and iBooks messed up ally PDFs are in the PDFs folder as well as my catorgories. Previously PDFs folder/ shelf only contained newly downloaded PDFs, so I knew what was new. Now it is just a total mess, which idiot decided to

just upgraded to ios9.0.2, which I hadn't as has messed up iBooks, my PDFs shelf now has all my PDFs visible. I only want as previous iOS versions allowed any newly downloaded PDFs in here which I would then move to my catorgories. Why has Apple done this, is there any I can empty my PDFs self without deleting them from their catorgories. I will be off to the Apple Store to vent some spleen. If any one knows how to fix would love to know.

iPad 2, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 9, 2015 11:53 AM

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King_Penguin

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Oct 10, 2015 12:11 AM in response to Tango235

It's been like that since iOS 8.4, the PDFs collection is now a way of seeing all of your PDFs in the one-place - when you 'move' a PDF into one of your own collections you aren't creating a second copy of it, so if you delete the PDF from the PDFs collection it will also be deleted from the collection that you 'moved' it into. If you want to know why it's like that you will have to ask Apple, as far as I know they haven't said it.

If you want to leave feedback for Apple : http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Oct 10, 2015 11:25 AM in response to King_Penguin

Many thanks for the reply, I didn't update to ios 8.4 as worried about changes like this happening, thought I should upgrade to government cyber streetwise campaign. Have now read ios8.4 complaints and see it looks like it is hear to stay. Typical Apple if organised uncool, keeping things messy is the way to go. Thanks once again for your help, will now complain directly to apple

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Judy

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Oct 27, 2015 11:13 AM in response to Tango235

I Have the same problem. I can't find my PDFs to move into a collection anymore. Big mess.

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Oct 29, 2015 11:44 AM in response to Judy

HI Judy,

its ts now official that iBooks will not sync pdf's across all of your devices. It worked great! After an incredible 130 minute conversation with Apple (they even transferred me to HQ in America) they admitted defeat and said it no longer syncs to all of your devices. Come on Apple, this was a great feature

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Judy

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Dec 20, 2015 11:38 PM in response to Gary Birch

Still messed up in 9.2.

I keep some of my own files as PDFs in iBooks and I can search for text simply.

I Just realized that the newest ones are at the top of the list, so I can just put them in the right categories. (When sorted by bookshelf)

i wonder if there is a way to give my PDF files a category.

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Judy

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Jan 10, 2016 4:07 AM in response to Tango235

I Just discovered:

if I open the collection that I want to open a PDF into, and then go to safari and choose open in iBooks, the PDF goes straight into the collection. It also goes into PDFs.

THis is works on my iPad.

IT doesn't work on my iPhone.

BOth are on iOS 9.2.

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