Stop books going to the cloud

Freeing up space + going to pictures in iDrive and switch from ‘optimize iPhone storage’ to ‘keep originals’ (as other people have suggested) did the trick for me on my iPhone 5S. As for freeing up space: You can look up a trick with renting a large movie file (eg War and Peace) which gives you an error message saying ‘not enough space’ (so you don’t pay) but then somehow automatically cleans up ‘fluff’ from your phone. It’s earned me 20-30% space a few times now....

The response and solution was given two pages ago in the thread. Going back to the issue will confuse visitors.

This can be solved by disabling "optimize storage" in ios -> settings -> pictures (change to "keep originals")

Ok macos this is done in system preferences -> icloud -> icloud drive -> options -> uncheck "optimise max storage"

I don't see how it can happened, but then you can alway sync books back from your computer without going to town just for that.

Hey, this problem still hasn't been solved. I again got stuck without cellular (or wi-fi) coverage and Apple iBooks for whatever reason decided that the book I was reading should be put into the cloud. What's the point of having my books on my phone if I can't access then when needed? The world isn't nearly the technical utopia Apple seems to think it is... :-(

Hi Keith,

Have you managed to sort this one out? I'm still getting this. I want my book to be available on icloud, but not to be deleted from ibooks.

I get all my books from my dropbox directly into the phone/tablet, but after a while they appear with the cloud icon next to them, and if I want to open them I need WiFi which I don't always have on my tablet, and it is annoying.

Has anyone fixed this?

I have this same problem and am still waiting on a good response from Apple. I've played around with the various settings on the iPhone and within iTunes but nothing helps. I have 256 gb iPad Pro and want all of my books (only a few gigs worth) permanently on my iPad. But they keep going to the cloud. I want them in the cloud and on my iPad. It’s obviously a way to save space but there should be a way to switch that off without switching off iCloud complete which I feel would probably do the trick. But that’ll ruin everythin else I need iCloud for. I hate having to constantly keep redownloading books when I get ready to read them.

Exactly the same problem here, and the same need:

I WANT ALL OF MY BOOKS BE PERMANENTLY ON MY IPAD ..

But this seems a very hard task, I tried since last two years to find a solution and I do on line research quite often, but still I didn't find any acceptable way to solve this problem.

Is it possible to answer the first question? I am having the same problem and it's 2017. I'm traveling and I need to keep at least one book offline to be able to read but I often have to wait days before finding Wifi and have it back from the cloud.

Please could you just answer if iBook is able to keep a book offline and if not is there another way?

Tha

I have this same problem on my iPhone. I have to redownload my books several times a day and I usually don’t have wifi when I need the books the most. I’ve had it for a while and thought it was just because of the space, but it does it even when I havr enough space.

I have the same problem and for me it is huge and already put me in very bad situation since the same happens with Keynote! I prepared a presentation im my computer and downloaded it on my iPad. It opened normally as should be. Then I travelled to another state in Brasil to give a open lecture in a conference. How was my surprise when I saw that, in the same way it happens with my books on iBooks, my presentation was sent to iCloud! I was in a place with a bad internet connection and thus I simply couls not get my presentation... it is terrible! I lost count of how many times it happened with my books. Brasil is not like US full of WiFi connections all over the places. Sometimes I enter in a bus and when I am going to read I simply do not have my books. Apple is making **** after ****... what a pain!

Hi, thank you for your attention.

Unfortunately already I tried this but it didn’t work. Even downloading a filé (on iBooks ou Keynote) my iPad “decided” who should be on the cloud.... I have no idea how to solve this.

And sorry man, but it is everything but smart... smart is respect the client and ask if this or that file can be send to iCloud instead of simply make you get lost without the files you planned to use.

Hi there. Have you found a solution to this issue yet? I am in the same boat. I'm a pubic speaker and use Pages to create my outlines then export them to iBooks. But both apps will move my outlines to the Cloud unannounced!

I currently have 4G of memory (btw having 'low memory' is no excuse to force someone's files off of their device, otherwise a 32G iPad should be sold as a 28G). This is extremely frustrating as on one occasion it ruined my presentation! I have since learned to double check before leaving the house. No device should be making these decisions for me!