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Can I stop iBooks from removing my PDFs from my device?

iBooks continually deletes my PDFs (and EPUBs not purchased through Apple) from my device. They’re still available to redownload from icloud (even files that I specifically did not upload to the cloud, to prevent this problem), but I’d love not to have to download my own files every third time I need them.

Posted on Sep 21, 2017 6:58 PM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2017 8:11 AM

This seems like a recent change in behaviour. In my case I don’t have a large library and most books are unloaded to iCloud anyway. So I only have about 5-6 books offline. And iBooks keeps offloading them to the cloud without any logic. Isn’t the book I currently read supposed to stay offline? They don’t consume a lot of storage. So it’s clearly a bug.

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Can I stop iBooks from removing my PDFs from my device?

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