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How to Re-Enable the Classic Page Turning Animation in Apple Books
Tuesday April 4, 2023 5:08 pm PDT by Tim Hardwick
In iOS 16, Apple made a change to its stock Books app that removed the traditional page turning animation that had been used since the early days of the iPhone app.
The move upset some Apple Books users, but thankfully Apple listened, and the company reintroduced the page turning animation as an option in iOS 16.4.
This was a welcome change for Apple Books users who missed the page...
Delete Downloaded Books and Audiobooks on iPhone
Thursday April 8, 2021 4:54 pm PDT by Tim Hardwick
If you've downloaded books, audiobooks, or PDFs to the Books app on your iPhone or iPad, it's worth going through them every once in a while. You may find that some of them no longer need to be there, in which case they're just taking up space on your device.
The following steps show you how to delete unecessary items from the Books app, which should help free up some valuable storage.
Laun...
How to Set Reading Goals in iOS 13
Monday September 16, 2019 5:13 pm PDT by Tim Hardwick
In iOS 13, Apple has added a new feature to its Books app that lets you keep track of how many minutes a day you spend reading and how many books you've read so far this year.
If you could benefit from some motivation to help you start a book and keep going until the end, then using Reading Goals could be the answer. When you hit your goal, you'll get a pop-up notification with the option to...
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Apple Books Launches 2025 Year in Review Experience
Wednesday December 3, 2025 7:30 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Apple today launched its personalized 2025 Year in Review experience for Apple Books, featuring users' top books and audiobooks of the year.
Starting today, the 2025 Year in Review appears prominently inside the Home tab of the Apple Books app. The feature offers a personalized breakdown of each user's reading activity throughout the year, including total books completed, top genres,...
Apple Hit With $5 Billion Class Action Lawsuit Over eBooks Availability
Wednesday April 2, 2025 7:22 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
A lawsuit filed against Apple in California this week accuses the company of violating the state's false advertising law and other consumer laws, by intentionally misleading customers into thinking that they are purchasing digital e-books from the Apple Books app in perpetuity, when instead they are only purchasing revokable licenses to the books.
The proposed class action complaint explains ...
Apple Lays Off Around 100 Services Staff Across Apple Books and News
Wednesday August 28, 2024 3:42 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
As part of a "shift in priorities," Apple has made cuts to its workforce across senior VP Eddy Cue's Services division, Bloomberg reports. About 100 employees impacted by the cuts were reportedly given a 60-day window to secure another position within Apple before their termination becomes effective.
The scope of the layoffs extended beyond a single team, with some employees working across...
Apple Books Launches New 'Year in Review' Feature
Tuesday November 28, 2023 6:28 am PST by Joe Rossignol
Apple today announced that its Books app now offers a "Year in Review" recap in select countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, France, and Germany. The feature requires an iPhone or iPad on iOS 17.1 or iPadOS 17.1 or later, and it can be found within the Read Now tab under Top Picks, for users with at least three titles marked as finished.
Year in Review allows Apple Books...
AI-Narrated Audiobooks Now Available in Apple Books
Thursday January 5, 2023 3:30 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Apple has now launched Apple Books digital narration, offering a new way for publishers to automatically generate high-quality AI-narrated audio from written text.
The feature, first announced in December via the Apple Books for Authors webpage, allows publishers on the Apple Books platform to opt-in to have their written books converted into a narrated audio form using AI. Samples of the...
Books App Gets Redesign in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16
Tuesday June 7, 2022 3:57 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 has overhauled the design of the Books app, simplifying the interface and adding some new customization tools.
In iOS 15, there's a toolbar at the top of the app that provides access to the chapter index, font adjustments, search tools, and bookmarks, but in iOS 16, everything has been moved to the bottom of the app.
There's a single tappable icon at the...
Siri Can Now Tell You What Oprah's Reading
Tuesday March 16, 2021 10:19 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple has a partnership with Oprah for "Oprah's Book Club," a follow along reading experience available in the Apple Books app and the Apple TV+ app.
Starting today, there's a new Oprah Siri integration that allows you to ask Siri what book Oprah is currently reading for her book club. In response, Oprah herself reads a synopsis of the book, which happens to be Marilynne Robinson's novel...
Apple Highlights Services in 2020 as App Store Sets Single-Day Spending Record on New Year's Day
Wednesday January 6, 2021 6:14 am PST by Hartley Charlton
Apple has today announced that New Year's Day saw a new single-day spending record of over $540 million on the App Store, as the company celebrated a number of highlights from its various services in 2020.
Recapping 2020, Apple announced that the year's most downloaded apps were Zoom and Disney+, and games on the App Store "became more popular than ever." Apple revealed that developers...
Apple Shares Picks for Best Books, Audiobooks, and Podcasts in 2020
Tuesday December 1, 2020 11:27 am PST by Juli Clover
At the end of each year, Apple shares its picks for the best App Store apps, podcasts, Apple Music songs, books, and more, and today the company is highlighting the top books, audiobooks, and podcasts of 2020.
Code Switch by NPR was named the Apple Podcasts: Show of the Year, which is a new category for 2020.
Apple also highlighted the top 10 biggest shows of 2020, which include Stuff...
Oprah Winfrey to Serve as First-Ever Guest Editor for Apple News
Tuesday August 4, 2020 7:14 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Last year, Apple and Oprah Winfrey launched Oprah's Book Club in the Apple Books app, providing readers with a curated selection of "stories that truly matter by today's most thought-provoking authors."
Oprah today announced that her latest selection is "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author. The book is available now on...
Emails Reveal Why Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller Blocked In-App Purchase of Kindle Books
Friday July 31, 2020 6:25 am PDT by Hartley Charlton
Internal Apple emails, made public by the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust inquiry, have revealed information about why Apple blocked in-app purchases of Kindle books on iOS devices, reports The Verge.
Two sets of emails between Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and various other senior Apple executives, disclose the exact thinking behind how Apple approached Kindle on iOS. The...
Apple Offers Free Books and Audiobooks to Users in U.S. for Limited Time Only
Sunday March 22, 2020 7:29 pm PDT by Frank McShan
Apple Books today sent out a push notification highlighting free books and audiobooks available to users for a limited time only. This appears to be U.S. only for now.
The push notification reads:
Enjoy a good book, on us
Explore free books, read-alongs for kids, cozy mysteries, and audiobooks for the whole family.
Upon tapping on the notification, users are brought to the Free Books page ...
Oprah's Book Club Launches on Apple Books, Apple TV+ Series Premieres November 1 [Updated]
Monday September 23, 2019 5:54 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple and esteemed talk show host and philanthropist Oprah Winfrey today announced the launch of Oprah's Book Club in the Apple Books app.
Oprah's Book Club can be accessed in the Apple Books app under Book Store > Browse Sections on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Winfrey's first book selection is "The Water Dancer" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, available for pre-order now on Apple Books in both e-book and...
Apple Shares Six Free Classic Audiobooks Narrated by Celebrities
Monday December 17, 2018 4:46 pm PST by Juli Clover
Apple recently released a series of six audiobooks that have been narrated by celebrities that include Kate Beckinsale and Kelsey Grammer, making them available to Apple Books users for free.
The titles are all in the public domain, but are unique because of their celebrity narrations. A list of available titles is below:
Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen and narrated by...
Apple Music, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts, and iTunes Gain New 'Best of 2018' Sections
Tuesday December 4, 2018 6:24 am PST by Mitchel Broussard
This week, Apple shared a new press release that highlighted the best music, movies, television shows, podcasts, and books of 2018. With the announcement, Apple has now rolled out new sections in each service that highlight these pieces of media under an all-new "Best of 2018" category.
Throughout 2018 we’ve been celebrating the creativity of app developers, musicians, writers and ...
Apple's Free 'Everyone Can Create' Music, Drawing, Photos, and Video Guides Now Available on Apple Books
Monday October 1, 2018 6:28 am PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple today announced that its Everyone Can Create curriculum is now available in English on Apple Books for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Apple says additional languages will be available by the end of 2018.
Everyone Can Create is designed to allow teachers to easily incorporate creativity into their existing lesson plans in any subject, including language arts, math, science, history, social...
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