Q: PDFs don't sync between iBooks apps via iCloud Drive
I don't use iBooks to buy and download e-books. All I want to use it is to read PDFs, but I've always been having syncing issues when using iBooks to manage PDF documents between different devices. I hate using iTunes to sync anything anymore so I was hoping that with the intro of iCloud Drive, I could once and for all just:
1. add a PDF file from a Mail app to iBooks on my iPhone
2. and read it through iBooks on my Macbook laptop.
All I want to know from this thread is: Am I misunderstanding the point of these apps or is anyone else having issues syncing?
I have everything turned on. In this thread I don't want to enter into the technical aspects and how to set it all up; all of my settings to use iCloud Drive, everything in on on on. That doesn't interest me so please don't reply with technical questions, instructions, clarifications etc.
I don't use iBooks to buy and download actual electronic books. I just wanna know, in 2016, with 9.3.1 & El Capitan: can I add a PDF from Mail to iBooks on my iPhone and then have it wonderfully show up on my MacBook in iBooks?
Sure if I'm using iBooks only to manage PDFs, I might as well just use Dropbox. But I thought...once...I will give iBooks a try and maybe buy a book or two and that way I can stick with one app and not have multiple ones for various purposes. But if it can't handle simple PDFs through iCloud then I'm just baffled.
iPhone 5, iOS 9.3.1, null
Posted on Apr 17, 2016 5:55 AM
Yes, iCloud sync for non-store books and PDFs is a feature in the latest iOS 9.3+ and OS-X 10.11.4+
Posted on Apr 23, 2016 1:23 AM