Bug? "PDFs" now shows ALL PDFs, not unsorted PDFs as before

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Bug? "PDFs" now shows ALL PDFs, not unsorted PDFs as before

I upgraded iOS to 9.2.1 lately (from 8.x) and iBooks seems to have a bug now (from my perspective):

Originally when I copied a PDF to my iPad (mostly via Dropbox), it would show up under the collection "PDFs", which I would have used as a landing point for my new PDFs which I had not moved to their respective ("sorted") folders yet.

But now after the iOS upgrade, the "PDFs" collection has changed its semantic meaning: It shows *all* PDFs, both new/unsorted *and* those sorted into other folders.

I am not aware if this is intended or a bug (as I view it), but in any case: Is there a way to have a collection/view which shows the unsorted PDFs (as before)?

Thank you!

iPad, iOS 9.2.1

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 1:56 PM

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Answer 1

King_Penguin

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Feb 6, 2016 10:07 AM in response to Knochenparker

That is how it is now apparently designed to work, the PDFs collection is just a way of viewing all of your PDFs in the one place - I'm not aware of any way to display PDFs that aren't in one of your collections. If you want to leave feedback to Apple about it : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks_ios.html

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Answer 2

Feb 15, 2016 1:34 PM in response to King_Penguin

When you say "that is how it is now apparently designed to work", do you have any kind of "official" source?

I tried finding so on the Apple web site, but there is no real explanation what semantic should be behind the "PDFs" collection. So I will keep assuming this is a bug since this totally breaks iBook's usability now.

I will write to the feedback page as you suggested...

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Answer 3

King_Penguin

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Feb 15, 2016 1:50 PM in response to Knochenparker

As it's been like it since, I think, iOS 8.4, I assume that it would have been changed in a subsequent update if it wasn't working as designed

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