Curses, banes, and maledictions

October 22, 2018 4:11 PM

My iPhone and iPad updated and now my PDFs are missing out of iBooks. Dammit. Is there anyway to get them back? The most recent ones will not be in the backup on my computer

I am now on iOS 12.0.1.

posted by SLC Mom to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Are you sure they didn't just migrate into iCloud? That's where all mine have ended up after iOS upgrades, I believe.
posted by Alensin at 4:19 PM on October 22, 2018

Another place to check is Files - it is a default app now and the icon looks like a blue file folder.
posted by soelo at 4:56 PM on October 22, 2018 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Well, how do I call something back out of the cloud?

I just checked; Not in files, thanks for the idea.
posted by SLC Mom at 6:02 PM on October 22, 2018

The new iBooks over-organizes. Tap "Collections" in the upper left and see what you have in PDFs.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:07 PM on October 22, 2018

This happened to me, too. I used the instructions here: https://appletoolbox.com/2017/09/ibooks-missing-after-the-latest-upgrade-how-to-fix/
posted by itsamermaid at 3:09 AM on October 23, 2018