Change preferences in Books on Mac

Download new purchases automatically

Automatically download new purchases (including free ones) made on other devices.

The same Apple ID must be used in Apple Books on all your devices.

Reading Now

Sync information about what books and audiobooks you’re reading across your Apple devices.

Collections, bookmarks, and highlights

Sync collections, bookmarks, highlights, and recent book information across your Apple devices.

Enable Reading Goals

View time spent reading and other achievements.

Clear Reading Goals Data

Clear data about your time spent reading and reading streaks.

Full Justification

Read books with text aligned on both the left and right. The words are spaced to fit the columns.

This option is not available for larger font sizes.

Auto-hyphenation

Automatically hyphenate words that are too long to fit on one line. When this option is not selected, words may have large spaces between them.

Extend by 10 minutes while reading

Extend the time before the display sleeps by 10 minutes while reading.

Skip Forward

Choose the number of seconds to skip forward when you click the skip button.

Skip Back

Choose the number of seconds to skip back when you click the skip button.

Headphone Controls

Select what happens when you use headphone controls (for example, double-tapping either of your AirPods).

• Next track / Previous track: Jump between audiobook tracks.

• Skip forward / Skip back: Skip forward or back a set number of seconds within an audiobook track.

Include store results when searching

Include results from the Book and Audiobook Stores when searching.

Reset Access to Online Content

Clear permission for books to access publisher’s content from the Internet.

Reset Identifier

Reset the identifier used to report aggregate app usage statistics to Apple.