iOS 16.4 Beta 2 Re-Adds Page Turning Animation to Apple Books

[coolfactor]

Why does Apple still have Apple Books? Amazon's Kindle long ago made Apple Books undesirable for many authors and eBook customers in my opinion. New features are great, but Apple should give up on eBooks, as Amazon clearly is the winner (in my opinion) and should instead do a deal with Amazon to license Kindle eBooks. I own over 2,000 eBooks that I purchased on Amazon Kindle's platform, and I am not about to switch to Apple eBooks.

If you had kids, would you encourage them to just "give up" when another party is clearing "winning"?

Come on, that's no way to live. It's not always about winning and losing, or who has the greatest market share. Products and services can be valuable to individuals, regardless of who else uses them.

 

[furou]

Finally. Now they just need to completely revamp and fix notifications and the wallpaper UI and Apple’s doomsday clock will move a little further away from midnight.

 

[gwang73]

Love this. Never understood why they removed it in the first place.

 

[Crowbot]

Love this. Never understood why they removed it in the first place.

Just slimming down the code, maybe.

 

[StralyanPithecus]

Why does Apple still have Apple Books? Amazon's Kindle long ago made Apple Books undesirable for many authors and eBook customers in my opinion. New features are great, but Apple should give up on eBooks, as Amazon clearly is the winner (in my opinion) and should instead do a deal with Amazon to license Kindle eBooks. I own over 2,000 eBooks that I purchased on Amazon Kindle's platform, and I am not about to switch to Apple eBooks.

Try reading a manual or some advanced formatting books like physics or technical in color books, and you will understand why Apple books is superior in those case to Kindles. I left the kindle world long time ago after paying for books at Amazon with crapping formatting in their ebooks. They have quantity but surely not quality.

 

[usersince86]

Life-changing.

 

[orbital~debris]

Agreed, wouldn't that be great.

But the thing I like most about the Kindle is that it isn't a mobile device with the infinite distractions. Reading on iOS you get notifications that pull you out, or the temptation of the reddit app, etc...

I leave my phone charging in the living room and night, and my kindle into bed. It's a great way to wind down and soften the eyes before sleep. It's nice to get away from the blaringly bright screen world...

If display technologies allowed, I'd love iPad mini to have the ability to utilise e-ink as an alternative mode to the standard display. It would be even more cool if such a 'reader mode' were still available when iPad's main power was depleted (using a small battery reservoir for e-ink).

If it's of any interest, you can partially replicate the elimination of distractions with the OS 'Focus' feature – I've set up a "Reading" Focus that works really well if I don't have my Kindle to hand or prefer to read in Books. I might go as far as to have other apps hidden if I tweak the setup.

 

[subjonas]

I still think Apple needs to have an Apple Books Service like Apple Music. Make the Bookstore a large library and for like $10 a month, you can check out any book and be able to return it without having to keep it.

That's a good idea, and I'd bet it will happen at some point. I'm wondering if it's lagging behind music/movies/TV services because people don't read as much. Or maybe working out deals to acquire books is more complicated for some reason. In any case, I hope it happens. I'd sign up just to get myself to read more. But I'd also still buy books/ebooks that I want to own, just like I still buy CDs and BluRays.
Also regarding digital purchases, I hope they can figure out how to do away with all DRM, whether it's through using blockchain or whatever.

 

[orbital~debris]

I’d love to see Scott Forstall’s reaction to this 😆

I mean yeah 😆 although the feature hasn't been missing all that long in the grand scheme of things (not as long as "Scotty don't" [work at  any more]).

 

[anthogag]

Good news. Page turning should be smooth on 14 Pro Max.

 

[atomic.flip]

This might seem like a small thing but it’s genuinely a sorely missed feature of the app which made the process of reading traditional literature even more enjoyable.

I remember when it was first introduced during a presentation SJ gave on the ipad on it over a decade ago. Idk why they removed it at one point but I’m glad it’s back now!

 

[mac98aop]

Just so pleased! It is the little things that matter with these devices. I use Apple Books a lot and really enjoy it and page curl was sorely missed. Yes, for nostalgia and sentimental reasons but it’s also just a little touch that made it…. well, Apple.

 

[Chriss_m]

Nice. Now rebuild the app from the ground up so it’s not a complete and utter shambolic disaster.

 

[xxray]

My first Apple feedback submission that has actually been listened to and implemented!

 

[Marie.D]

This was the most stupid decision they ever made. At least it’s being reverted, unfortunately a lot of other features like target display mode and 3D Touch dont get that second chance.

I usually don’t go to those extremes but whoever proposed the removal of this animation needs to be promptly fired.

 

[rlmcguire]

Now bring the shredder back to Wallet!

 

[applepotato666]

because people don't read as much.

This really is the reason. It wouldn’t make much sense to develop the service. Plus there are similar ones already for audiobooks and that is going to be a lot more popular than reading text.
Also, in my opinion, something major about books is piracy. Everyone knew z-library. Music streaming succeeded because of the fact that you can search for anything and just play it inside the music app easily, discover new music, or just leave it on and have it play essentially forever. Apple Books already opens up PDF, epub, etc with no problem.
What I’m trying to say is, reading a book is always a lot more intentional than listening to a song and you know what it’s about before you read it, so people are more willing to seek a book out and obtain it that way.
Another reason is e-books tend to be more expensive than a song so it’d have to be a more expensive service. the people who’d be interested in it are likely people who go through at least several books/month. At $3-10 each, at $10 it’d be too much of a deal.

 

[applepotato666]

Now bring the shredder back to Wallet!

Apple shreds enough wallets already 😂

 

[tomtad]

Why was this ever removed!?

 

[Rogifan]

Nice. Now rebuild the app from the ground up so it’s not a complete and utter shambolic disaster.

I use the Kindle app. What makes Apple’s app an “utter shambolic disaster”?

 

[Kirkster]

As much as I like Apple the Apple Book store was a hot mess. I slowly abandoned it to the point that I have not opened it in a few years. Kindle Unlimited is my go to now. The number of books I read justifies the 10 bucks a month inside of the first two weeks of every month.

 

[omihek]

I've come to rather like the new slide animation, but I'll probably go back to curl anyway cuz nothing beats that.

 

[ntg]

I just wish books would display across the full width of the screen and not add in huge borders. On small phone screens you only get 4-5words per line, when you could get 8-9 in portrait.

 

[Mr Todhunter]

i can’t begin to express the joy I felt on reading this. I repeatedly stated in various relevant discusions in the forums that I had no intention to ever install iOS 16 on my iPads. I have 3 iPads constantly in use for reading (I spend hours teading everyday), all 3 perfectly able to run iOS 16. Taking away the page turning animation made me extremely angry because it took away a lot of my pleasure in reading on the iPad. They took away this feature for no reason at all. NO REASON AT ALL! I felt I was ready to abandon the iPads once they died and move to generic tablets, just to punish Apple. Even if it ment using the kindle app, which I find dreadfull.
Anyway there is a reading app on iPadOS that is better than iBooks (and way better than kindle). It is called Marvin, but I don’t use it because (call me an old fart if you like) it lacks a page turning animation.

 

[ahhh]

The second beta of iOS 16.4 that was introduced to developers today appears to have a limited number of new features, but it does have a major update for those who use Apple Books - it reintroduces an option for the page turning animation.

With iOS 16, Apple revamped the Books app and removed the traditional page turning animation in favor of a simpler slide animation, but many Apple Books users were not happy with the decision.

The iOS 16.4 beta adds a new toggle in the Themes and Settings section of the Books app that lets users choose a page turning animation. Options include Curl, Slide, and None. Slide is the iOS 16 default, Curl is the old iOS 15 and earlier animation, and None is an even simpler animation that just shifts from page to page. These features are also available in iPadOS 16.4 for those who read on the iPad.

Article Link: iOS 16.4 Beta 2 Re-Adds Page Turning Animation to Apple Books

Pages get turned from the top not the bottom.