Use iCloud to read and listen on all your devices with Books on Mac
With iCloud, you can have books, audiobooks, PDFs, collections, highlights, notes and bookmarks appear automatically in Books on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch when you’re signed in to the same Apple Account. If you purchased a book or audiobook on another device, you can easily download it on your Mac.
With Bluetooth®, your audiobooks appear automatically in the Audiobook app on your Apple Watch and CarPlay, so you can listen on the go.
Use iCloud to see content in Books from all your devices
You can see content in Books from all your devices when you use iCloud.
On your Mac: Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click your name at the top of the sidebar. (If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in with your Apple Account”.) Click iCloud, then click Drive (make sure it’s turned on). Click “Apps syncing to iCloud Drive”, then make sure Books is turned on.
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud (or Settings > iCloud). Below Apps Using iCloud, tap Show All, then make sure iCloud Drive and Books are turned on.
Customise what content to sync across devices
Go to the Books app on your Mac.
Choose Books > Settings, then click General.
Do any of the following:
Select Home to see what books and audiobooks you’re reading across your Apple devices.
Select “Collections, bookmarks and highlights” to see your collections, bookmarks, highlights and recent book info across your Apple devices.
Manually update and transfer items between devices
You can use a cable to update and transfer items between your Mac and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. See Intro to syncing your Mac and your devices.
Listen to audiobooks on your Apple Watch
By default, you can sync up to two audiobooks from your Home or Want to Read collection to your Apple Watch. You can also sync audiobooks to your Apple Watch manually. See Add audiobooks to Apple Watch in the Apple Watch User Guide.
Listen to audiobooks with CarPlay
You can listen to audiobooks while you drive. See Play audiobooks with CarPlay in the iPhone User Guide.