#Change icon for books in ibooks how to#

(The menu is no longer hidden on iTunes 12.4 and higher.) If you're using iTunes on Windows, and can't find the File menu, try pressing Ctrl+B on your keyboard to un-hide it.

See if all of your PDFs are now in that 'Books' section.

Click on 'Books' in the left panel under 'Settings'.

Click on the iPhone icon in the upper left corner of iTunes to look at the device specific info.

#Change icon for books in ibooks how to#

How to Verify the iBooks are Saved on Your Computer Open the 'File' menu, select Devices -> Transfer Purchases from Your iPhone's Name.Plug your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch in to your computer.If you don't believe me, here's a reference :). (If that is an interesting sentence to you, you may enjoy this post about iTunes sync vs iTunes backup.) Let me make sure I state this clearly: PDFs in iBooks are NOT backed up as part of an iPhone backup in iTunes. Since PDF files can now be synced to iBooks on your iOS device, they're now categorized as 'synced stuff' and 'synced stuff' doesn't get backed up. It would be pretty sad to lose all my PDFs from iBooks, so today's blog post is about how to backup PDFs from iBooks.Д«ack in the day (circa 2014), PDF files saved to iBooks were part of a normal iPhone backup, but that is no longer the case.

it's all there in a flurry of mismatched PDF previews. Calendars, e-books, flyers, things I loved reading and want to read again, things I want to love reading someday in the future. I do some serious PDF hoarding in the iBooks app on my iPhone.