Catalogue backup in iCloud

What is included

• The catalog: books, title edits, repaired encodings, series, authors, progress, bookmarks and covers.
• Under the switch — how much the catalog adds to the backup. Usually a few megabytes.

What is not included

• Audio files: their folder is always excluded from the backup; the switch does not affect that.

How to get it back

Only together with the whole device — when an iPhone or iPad is restored from an iCloud backup. You cannot open this backup from the app: to move the catalog on its own, use “Backup as a file”.

If you turn it off

The catalog stops going into the device’s next backups. Books and progress on the device stay as they were. Each device has its own switch, on by default.

Not to be confused

This is not offloading — it frees no space on the device; not “Backup as a file” — there is no file you can take away; and not sync — it moves nothing to your other devices.

Tip

Keep it on: the catalog weighs a few megabytes, and without a backup a lost phone takes all your work on the collection with it. Before moving to a new device, also save a backup of the catalog: “Settings” → “Data” → “Backup as a file”.

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