This update brings the book you're reading to you the moment the app starts, and a fox to empty screens. - The logo turns into the book you're reading and flies to the top of Explore. A running timer keeps ticking - A fox waits in an empty Library, a search with no results, the end of an import and more - Explore: your own country's shelves, even if they arrived after you installed - Reader: PDF pages slide in landscape, and your place holds when you rotate, fold or unfold iPhone Duo, or switch devices - Books still to come show their release date, and tall covers show in full - Audiobooks: set your place by time left, too - Import library: an EPUB or PDF goes straight to Imported books - Fixed: a book opened from the Reading calendar now lands on top, and large text shows full titles Something missing? Tap Contact us in your Profile.

This update fixes a freeze on iPad and brings more ratings to the book page. - iPad: fixed a freeze that could stop the app during setup - Book page: see a book's rating on Apple Books and Open Library, beside Must Read ratings - Get this book: the Apple Books link opens the same book, not a bundle or another edition - A classic that failed to download now downloads again instead of staying broken - Ask Rufus is now Ask Must Read. Same picks, same fox. Thank you to every reader who wrote in. Something missing? Tap Contact us in your Profile.

Must Read now fits iPhone Duo: open it like a book, half-fold it, or keep it closed. On iPhone Duo - Open: a classic on two facing pages - Half-folded: the cover up top, the timer or player controls below - Closed: the timer and player fit the outer display - Reading calendar: tap a day and it opens on the right-hand page Imports - A PDF or EPUB in Import library now leads you to Imported books to read it - More files from other apps import, and an empty file says so - A large import now finishes, even if you leave the app Also new - Buttons and text grow with the largest text sizes - Your reading goal alert can reach you during a Focus - Notifications off? One tap takes you to turn them on - On iPad in full screen, search results show as a grid Thank you to every reader who wrote in. Something missing? Tap Contact us in your Profile.

Books in your language now come first, and every book page is easier to read at a glance. Many of these changes started as emails from readers. Thank you. IN YOUR LANGUAGE - Genres and search show books in your language first - Want another language? Pick it in any genre A CLEARER BOOK PAGE - Your progress and what's left, at a glance - Finished books keep your rating and reading dates together ALSO NEW - Lists, reviews and bookmarks stay in sync across all your devices - Audiobooks can count in hours and minutes: 62% · 7h 43m left FIXED, THANKS TO YOUR EMAILS - Changing a book's total pages keeps your current page - Saving a session keeps your exact progress - Imports keep page counts. If we can't read your file, we add your books by hand Something missing? Tap Contact us in your Profile. Many of these fixes started there.

See how long each book has left and how many minutes you read each day. Much of this update started as emails from readers. Thank you. STATISTICS - The Streak card in Statistics now shows the minutes you read on each of the last 30 days - Tap or drag across the chart to see a day's minutes and pages - Compare your last 7 days with the month YOUR BOOKS - See how long a book has left, based on your own pace: ≈ 3h 20m left - Choose Physical, Ebook or Audiobook for each book, and see your month by format - Audiobooks show how much you've listened - Lists show each book's progress, like your Library - Add how long you read when you update your progress - Started a book midway? Your first update no longer counts those pages as read today READING CALENDAR - Swipe between the days you read APPLE WATCH - Turn off the sound and tap when a session starts or stops, in Settings FIXES - Long notes and reviews no longer jump while you type - Sign in with Apple no longer fails after you approve it - The Pro screen shows the right prices after a lost connection - The app no longer closes on iPad when you type a number with some keyboards - Smaller fixes to imports, usernames and the Lock Screen

Bring your books over from 5 apps and see what's coming before anything is added. Start reading on Apple Watch in one tap, see each book's status in your lists, and plenty of fixes. IMPORT - Import Library now reads Goodreads, StoryGraph, Book Tracker, Reading List and Booklog - Before anything is added, you see every match: books we found, books already in your library and books we couldn't find. Leave out any you don't want APPLE WATCH - Start Reading starts your session in one tap - Books you track by percentage get their own dial, and the Digital Crown moves 1% at a time LISTS - Every book in a list shows its status: Reading, Completed, Want to Read or Did Not Finish - Filter a list by status, just like your Library READING CALENDAR - Tap any session in your Reading calendar to change its date, time, pages or notes, or delete it FIXES - Date Finished can now be earlier than Date Started, and the start date moves with it - Widgets show covers on the Clear and Tinted Home Screen instead of white squares - Reading sessions on iPhones set to Arabic now reach your account - Square covers, like audiobooks and picture books, show in full instead of cropped - Long subtitles no longer crowd the title in your Library, the reading timer, widgets and on Apple Watch - Book pages show long titles in full - A quick tap right after closing a book now opens what you tapped - Siri's answer to how many books you've finished now shows in your language - Siri's answers now show book titles and authors clearly, not dark on dark - Counts are now correct: 1 book, not 1 books

Built for iOS 27. Ask Rufus picks your next book from the ones you have finished, and on iOS 27 Apple Intelligence writes the reason why through Private Cloud Compute. Plus an extra-large widget on iPhone, Visual Intelligence that opens the book you tapped, and an app that resizes on iPad and on the Mac. ASK RUFUS - Six cards on the Explore tab: Pick for me, Surprise me, Short and quick, A long one to sink into, A classic worth your time, Something different. Two more appear once your shelf can fill them - Each answer is three books with a reason for each, plus one deliberately off your usual path - The picks come from your own shelf, your ratings and the genres you return to. They are chosen on your device, in all 32 languages, with no model involved - With Apple Intelligence (supported iPhones and languages), the reason under each book is written for you. Without it the reasons are plainer and nothing is missing - A line under the picks always says who wrote the notes SIRI AND SPOTLIGHT - Say "Ask Rufus in Must Read" and Siri answers with the same picks, covers included, without opening the app - Your library is indexed for Spotlight: search a title and it opens straight in Must Read. On iOS 27 that index is also how Siri AI can draw on what you are reading - Siri knows which book is on screen and can answer about it NEW WITH iOS 27 - The notes under Ask Rufus's picks are written through Private Cloud Compute, on Apple silicon, and read noticeably better - Extra-large widget on iPhone: a shelf of your current books on the Home Screen - Fully resizable in iPhone Mirroring on a Mac and on iPad, in every orientation VISUAL INTELLIGENCE - Point the camera at a cover, or open a photo, and pick Must Read. Tapping a result now opens the book, even one you do not own yet - Better matches: the search ignores straplines and publisher names and asks our catalogue every time READING - A book on its last page can now be finished from the reading timer: a green Mark complete button, and a swipe from the left in What to read? - Minutes you type when finishing are kept as a reading session EXPLORE - Readers in Belarus and Kazakhstan get the Russian-language shelves; readers in New Zealand, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Monaco get the nearest shelves in their language - Fixed: for readers in Canada using French, the links to buy a book were empty

Siri understands you when you name a book loosely, search waits for the answer instead of giving up, and Explore opens far faster. SIRI - Say a title with a typo, just the author, or one word of the title. Must Read now finds the book you meant instead of asking again - Siri answers with a card: the cover, the title, the author and your rating, so you can see that it worked - New: ask how many days in a row you have read, and Siri shows your streak - New: Siri & Shortcuts in Settings lists every command, in the exact words Siri listens for - A book page now shows what you can say about that book, and each tip can be dismissed on its own SEARCH - Search waits for the answer instead of giving up early, so a slow moment no longer looks like an empty result - Better results when the title and your keyboard use different alphabets - A misspelled author name now finds the author SPEED - Explore loads in one request instead of forty, so the first screen arrives far sooner - Classics and country lists open faster for the same reason SIGNING IN - Fixed: an expired sign-in link could sign you out of the account you were already using - Fixed: if signing in failed once, later attempts said nothing at all - Fixed: the app could wait forever on a server that was never going to answer ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Notifications are more reliable, and a device that stopped receiving them now repairs itself - Reaching the free limit now names the book it could not add - A free trial says it is a trial on your membership line - Fixed: a reading session could record more than eight hours if it was left running

Search is faster, book scanning finds more, and there is now a history of every import you have run. SEARCH AND SCANNING - Search results arrive noticeably faster, and typing an ISBN finds the book straight away - Scanning a book that Must Read does not know yet now works where it used to come back empty - Asking Siri or pointing the camera at a cover reaches the same catalog, so those find more books too IMPORTS - New: Import history, in Settings under Data. Every import you have run, with what was added, what was updated and what was already on your shelves - You can start an import from Settings at any time now, not only when setting up - Importing the same file twice never creates duplicates, and a book you removed comes back if the file still lists it - Fixed: when a book could not be imported, the app said nothing. It now says so and offers to try again READING TIMER - Fixed: Pause and Resume on the Lock Screen could do nothing if the app had been shut down in the background. They always work now - A second tap on a card that has not refreshed can no longer undo what you just did ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Smaller fixes and refinements throughout

Audiobooks start faster and move between chapters almost instantly, and importing brings more of your shelf across. AUDIOBOOKS - Chapters are ready before you tap Listen now, so a book starts on the first try instead of waiting on the catalogue - Moving to the next chapter is now near instant - Fixed: a chapter that failed to load closed the player instead of letting you try again IMPORTING YOUR LIBRARY - Fixed: a large import could leave books as bare entries with no cover, and nothing would fill them in afterwards - Fixed: books with the series in the title, like "Beartown (Beartown, #1)", were not matched to the catalogue SCANNING - Fixed: on a busy day a scan failed and blamed your connection. It now finds the book another way, and tells you when the catalogue is busy - Fixed: a book that could not be added straight away is now retried instead of quietly disappearing YOUR ACCOUNT - Fixed: signing in to a different account could leave the previous account's books on your device ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Smaller fixes and refinements throughout

Your reading time lands where it should, and search stops caring about accents. READING SESSIONS - Fixed: swapping to a different edition while the timer was running could record the session against the edition you had just left - Fixed: in rare cases a session could stay on your phone instead of reaching your library - Your reading time now follows the book you are actually reading, every time SEARCH - Searching inside a genre or on an author's page no longer cares about accents. Type "cafe" and you will find "Café" ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Smaller fixes and refinements throughout

Your library card in Apple Wallet, and a reading timer that keeps time with you. THE MUST READ CARD - Add your card to Apple Wallet and carry your reading with you: how many books you are tracking, and how many you have finished - Turn it over for what you are reading right now, what your taste reads like, and your member number - It keeps itself up to date, so finishing a book changes the card without you lifting a finger READING GOALS - Give a reading session a goal: 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or a length of your own - Follow it counting down on the Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and on your Apple Watch - A goal never cuts you off. Reach it and the timer tells you, then keeps counting for as long as you keep reading INVITE FRIENDS - Invite a friend and you both track 5 more books for free - Redeem a code from your Profile and your shelf grows straight away - If someone you invited subscribes, you get a month of Pro on us ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Fixed: a watch complication could go on showing a book you had already finished - Dozens of smaller fixes and refinements

Finish a session, and Must Read helps you come back tomorrow. READING REMINDERS - End a timed session and Must Read offers to remind you at the hour you actually read - One tap to turn it on, and it never asks twice APPLE WATCH - Steadier complications and a more reliable first install on the wrist A SMOOTHER START - Closing the app on the paywall no longer sends you back to the beginning - A simpler plan screen, with an iPad layout that fits ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Books with no published page count no longer show an invented percentage - Dozens of fixes and refinements

Must Read comes to Apple Watch, and your library learns to recommend. APPLE WATCH - Your reading timer, on your wrist: start a session, read, and log where you landed with a turn of the crown - Switch between the books you have on the go, straight from the watch - Watch face complications show your current book, your progress and your reading streak - Your streak and today's minutes, one glance away SIMILAR BOOKS - Every book page now suggests what to read next, drawn from shared authors and genres - Tap an author or genre to browse right there, without losing your place READING DNA - Your taste now has a name: discover your reader archetype, built from the genres and pace that make your library yours - Share your Reading DNA as a card made for the group chat ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Covers now zoom smoothly into their book pages - Fixed an issue where search results could sometimes come up empty - Dozens of fixes and refinements throughout

The biggest widget update yet, a smarter Library, and layouts that fit every screen you own. WIDGETS - New Streak widget: your flame, this week's reading days, and today's pages at a glance - Every size from Small to Large on iPhone, Extra Large on iPad, plus Lock Screen widgets - Choose exactly which books your widget shows, and in what order - Search and Scan shortcuts right on the widget, covers that update instantly FIND BOOKS WITH YOUR CAMERA - Point Visual Intelligence at any cover or barcode and jump straight to the book (on iPhones with Apple Intelligence) SIRI AND SHORTCUTS - Ask what you're reading, your top-rated books, or your reading stats - Add, finish and rate books by voice LIBRARY, COVERS FIRST - Your books now start above the fold, with quick tiles for bookshelf, import and lists - Landscape gets the full grid, and filters wrap into a tidy cloud MADE FOR IPAD AND LANDSCAPE - Book pages, Statistics, sharing and more learned two-column layouts - Sheets size themselves properly on iPad, and every screen respects larger text ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - Genre browsing is dramatically faster, and Genres got a redesign - Notifications can now show book covers - Imported books open their reader from Statistics, and import-only libraries can share their bookshelf - Your free trial length always matches the App Store - Dozens of fixes and refinements throughout

• Import your whole library from Goodreads or StoryGraph – your reading dates, ratings and reviews come across too • Switch a book to a different edition – your progress, dates and reviews stay put • Make share cards your own with custom backgrounds • Rate books in finer detail with quarter stars • Edit start dates, and manual progress now counts toward your reading calendar and streak • Books and large libraries open noticeably faster, plus fixes for rare crashes at launch

• Track every book your way – by page or by percentage, perfect for e-books and audiobooks • Sharper search – more relevant results, and brand-new titles surface on the first search • A tidier Statistics tab – Currently reading expands in place, and the Calendar opens to the right day • Steadier sync, plus polish across the Library and share cards

• A new Statistics tab – your reading life at a glance, ready to share • Classics now lives in Explore • Book screen refreshed – cleaner layout, cover-matched colours throughout • Search is faster and more reliable

• Smoother barcode scanning – clearer errors and better matching for international books • "Add Book Manually" remembers the ISBN you scanned • Fixed "0 pages" in book details, plus 147 books with corrected page counts • Newly added books show up in search faster

• Faster Bookshelf sharing – instant preview, smoother theme transitions • Reading Calendar – past and future days are now visually distinct • Quieter review prompts after finishing books • Polish across haptics, accessibility, and onboarding

• My Bookshelf – share your library as a wooden bookcase image • Three sharing themes: Colourful, Minimal, Dark • Quick actions in Explore: reminder, scan, search • Reading Calendar, swipe actions, and notes polish

• Reading Calendar – see your reading history at a glance • Reading streaks with milestone celebrations • Update progress without starting the timer • Faster, more reliable sync for large libraries • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Improved onboarding for new users • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Reading widget upgraded – now shows Classics and imported EPUBs • Imported EPUBs appear in Continue Reading on Explore • Completed books grouped by month with dates • Yearly reading stats in Profile • Bug fixes and performance improvements

• Import your own EPUBs – bring books from Files, AirDrop or other apps into your library with cover art and reading progress • Currently Reading widget – add your bookshelf to your Home Screen • Your Reading DNA – discover your reading patterns: favourite time of day, busiest weekday, top genres and reading pace • Classics in custom lists – add free eBooks and audiobooks to your lists alongside regular books • Siri & Shortcuts – open your library or search for books with voice commands • Helpful tips to discover swipe actions, the barcode scanner and more • Redesigned Profile with a new Statistics section • Accessibility improvements for VoiceOver and Reduce Motion • Bug fixes and performance improvements