It’s not customer-friendly that book-syncing is not supported on icloud accounts on macs not on mojave, only one os out.
the same goes for ios 12.
the same goes for ios 12.
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How dare they require updating software for new features to work?
Seriously. Nobody’s forcing you to update to either iOS 12 or Mojave if you don’t want the new features. If you do, just update. Easy and actually very straightforward for the customer.
You usually won't know it doesn't work until you have upgraded. And then they tell you to update non compatible devices like a MacBook Air Mid 2011 to 10.14 in the iOS iBooks settings. It's not customer friendly at all.
Pretty much this. Whenever there is a larger feature update or redesign to an iOS/macOS-app, iCloud sync usually only works once you have updated on all devices because all the new stuff is just not backwards-compatible, all the new features are missing from the old version. It happened with the Notes app in iOS 11/High Sierra, it happened with many other apps before and this year it happens with the switch from iBooks to the redesigned Apple Books app.How dare they require updating software for new features to work?
Seriously. Nobody’s forcing you to update to either iOS 12 or Mojave if you don’t want the new features. If you do, just update. Easy and actually very straightforward for the customer.
My only gripe really is that the iBooks app on the Mac (outside of the new naming scheme) is almost untouched and doesn't feature the new iOS 12 design and features; here's hoping we'll get the full Apple Books redesign next year with the second batch of Marzipan apps. But compatibility-wise it's absolutely understandable that they'll make a cut here.
(Besides, I believe adding a new book will still add it to your iCloud library and sync it to all devices, it's just collections, bookmarks, your most recent page and the like that won't get synced.)
Making a cut is only part of the problem, yes it's understandable although I'd argue maintaining compatibility to one previous main release is desirable. The other issue is they don't tell you upgrading will break compatibility. Sure you could downgrade again afterwards but it's really not customer friendly, and actually if you upgrade to iOS12 after they stop signing iOS 11 you're really stuck if your macOS machine isn't compatible with 10.14.
Good point. Yeah it would definitely make for a better user experience if Apple warned the users about this beforehand, especially with a release like Mojave which drops compatibility for several older Mac models and which therefore not every High Sierra user can be expected to install. I was mostly commenting on the technical side of things which I understood OP's issue to be mostly directed at – if we want new exciting features (which most of us do), then there have to be cuts like that on occasion.
Correct, I updated my phone though so I had to upgrade other things and my take-along mb air I can’t upgrade, that’s how the cookie crumbles.
The Books app on all Mojave betas so far would not let me transfer books manually to my iPad. I wonder if anybody else reading this have had the same problem. Well....not a problem actually because I could still erase the Books.app, keep iTunes 12.6.5 and use it to transfer to iPad. I never read on the Mac and I could use the Clearview.app if I need to.