Stop books going to the cloud

I had the same problem- Apple is arrogant and thinks anyone can download anything anywhere

I have been working with video files and need to keep them on tap for me to use. I kept seeing

that they were being put back in the cloud.

You have to go to settings and do not allow I cloud to summarize photos

That seemed to stop the taking off data and information from Ipad to cloud

But it is typical of Apple to not differentiate between books, files, photos and whatever

Hi,

I am not 100%, but looks like you can stop it if in Photos settings (I know sounds ridiculous) disable “Optimize iPhone storage” and enables “Download and keep originals”

Seems if “Optimize iPhone storage” is enabled, iOS push to cloud ALL files, not only photos, but books, Numbers, etc.

Looks like a bug, but meanwhile try, hopefully it will help

Best regards

Artem

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....

Yes, this is the answer!! Thank you for resolving a problem that has bugged me for the past year - and found me countless times w/o access to content i needed because of poor internet. This should help the 3 pages of people who have been frustrated by this problem.

This feature is driving me nuts. Yes I love that my books sync. But I’ll download a book on my home wifi to my ipad. Then I’ll go to gym and my ipad will delete the local copy and then I have to redownload it at the gym. Problem is the Wifi’s ***** cause everyone is on it and the download takes forever. Or when I’m in the parking lot there’s no wifi and I’m SOL. Yes I can free up space but I dont want to. I want my books to take priority over other garbage or at least be able to disable the feature. It’s like that for all iCloud. So annoying. First World Problems

Why does support keep asking about space? That is completely irrelevant. If I take a bunch of pictures on a trip, I don't expect my other files to be deleted before I can move those photos/delete the unneeded ones. Very unprofessional to be no solution answered to all of these people. Thank you for the users who answers the question for the "specialists."

Issue goes back to how the OS works. It will try to free as much space as possible for keep the phone work as supposed, eg. phone doesn’t run out of memory. Which is OK, but it would be still nice to be able to flag books to be kept on the phone depending on the capacity state. It is pretty much disturbing to notice they are in the cloud and you have to download it on the more expensive 3-4G or cannot read when no internet available. So this is kinda a feature request.

I have this exact same problem When i copy an epub book from my PC to my iphone, everything initially works fine. The book is copied to ibook, and i am able to read it. However, later on, and usually when i am out of wi-fi range, the image of the book in ibook has a small cloud thingy in the upper right corner, and I am unable to open the book. Ibook attempts to download the book from icloud, even though I never copied it to icloud in the first case. This is extremely infuriating.

The books start off on my phone, but end up only on icloud. I always have many gigs free memory on my phone, there is no reason why icloud should be involved in storing my books.

Please help,

Thank you/

Still having this problem two years later. On an Air 2, easy 10% available memory, yet iBooks will offload files.

I'll download several files to read on a train into work but by the next day when I’m on the train my files will have been offloaded back to the cloud. It’s why I still have an Android phone, as there I have much greater control over my data whereas Apple is seemingly determined to regress back to mainframes and dumb terminals.

Even though there’s a lot of places left in the world without permanent high speed access to the net, with unlimited data. It’s rubbish. I should be able to check a box for a collection and have iBooks keep that particular collection locally available.

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"

Go to the top item in settings - your Apple ID etc. Then click on iCloud. My sister's default setting was to send iBooks to the cloud.

I wrote down the names of all her books, had her turn off iCloud for iBooks then I had to redownload all her books but they stayed on the iPad when we went camping last week.

I have the same problem (iOS 11.4.1; iPad mini 2 16 Gb; 3.10GB free). My books keep going to the cloud, and when offline, I can't read them unless I find a wifi spot and download them again... and again... very annoying the whole point of an iPad mini (or any iOS device is mobility, out of range of any wifi network if necessary, otherwise I would remain at home with my MacBook Pro...)

Purchased books from iBooks Store will alway appear there for you to re-download if needed.

Are you saying the books you've synced/downloaded are not in your iBooks app?

You need to delete some stuff you don't need, 13 MB is not enough.

You need at least 10% of your total capacity.