I have an iPad Air and use iOS 9.3.4. I use IBooks 4.8. I have 13MB of available memory. I have many books on my iPad, all purchased from Apple. For some reason, books go to the cloud on their own. This happens sometimes when I am reading a book.
How can I stop books going to the cloud? This is very annoying
I had this issue as well, but found a fix. I would download books over wifi, but the next time I opened iBooks the books would need to be re-downloaded. I saw this while on and off of wifi, but it was of course more of an issue when only cellular data was available.
The fix: My iPhone was almost completely out of storage (this issue would probably affect iPads as well). After freeing up some space, downloaded books stay downloaded. I freed up 20%, but I imagine 10% would be sufficient.
My guess is that on devices with very little storage space available, iCloud tries to free some up by removing content you're not using at the moment, content that exists in iCloud storage. This is pretty smart on Apple's part, and is much better than hitting a hard limit in most cases. It's definitely inconvenient when a book you're reading is no longer available and you only have cellular data, but keeping some free space available should avoid this.
The books appear, but they end up in the cloud without me putting them there. I live in a rural area with no internet service. I download my books in town. Sometimes when I get home,I find some of my books went to the cloud. I then have to wait until the next time I go to town to once again download them to my iPad so I can read them. I want to stop them uploading to the cloud by themselves.
You need to delete some stuff you don't need, 13 MB is not enough.
You need at least 10% of your total capacity.
I meant 13 GB. Sorry
Do you have a computer?
You can use computer iTunes to download all the books you've purchased.
You can then sync books to your iPad as needed.
Info here: About iBooks - Apple Support
But how do I stop the iPad from uploading the books? This is the heart of my problem. Am I the only person who has this problem?
Joemac8 wrote:
But how do I stop the iPad from uploading the books? This is the heart of my problem. Am I the only person who has this problem?
Books do not upload itself. iCloud is there for downloading/streaming.
Maybe you didn't download the books but was using streaming to read?
I Fully download the books. I do all books the same and never stream. Still, some books go to the cloud by themselves. I have never sent a book to the cloud
Joemac8 wrote:
I Fully download the books. I do all books the same and never stream. Still, some books go to the cloud by themselves. I have never sent a book to the cloud
Ok.
You didn't answer my question:
Do you have a computer at home?
With the iPad after you downloaded all the books, you transfer the purchases to your computer iTunes and then sync the books from there without using the Internet.
YYes I can do that. It still doesn't stop the automatic upload to the cloud
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.
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.
Stop books going to the cloud
