How do I stop iPad offloading my books to iCloud?

Hi,

I have an iPad and the books keep on offloading to iCloud and I am not able to stop that. Its SUPER frustrating when you wanna open a book you read a day before on a plane and it has cloud by its name and there is no way to download it. This needs to be fixed and many members has asked this before with no answers from Apple.

iPad mini 6 Wi-Fi

Posted on Oct 2, 2022 2:31 PM

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Lemmi1963

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Oct 14, 2022 6:43 PM in response to jan_banan

go to settings, click on your name, click on iCloud, scroll down to books and switch off synchronization

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