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iPad User Guide

Set reading goals in the Books app on iPad

The Books app helps you keep track of how many minutes you read each day, and how many books and audiobooks you finish each year. You can customize your goals to spend more time reading, set new reading streaks, and receive encouragement to reach your goals.

👁 The Reading Goals screen showing stats for the user—such as today’s reading, their reading record for the week, and their books read this year.

Note: Apple Books isn’t available in all countries or regions. See the Apple Support article Availability of Apple Media Services.

Change your daily reading goal

You can adjust your daily reading goal depending on how many minutes you want to read per day. If you don’t customize your daily reading goal, it’s set to 5 minutes per day.

  1. Go to the Books app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Home, then tap the reading goals button at the top right of the screen.

  3. Tap the reading goal timer, then tap Adjust Goal.

    Note: To count PDFs toward your reading goal, go to Settings 👁 Image
     > Apps > Books, then turn on Include PDFs below Reading Goals.

  4. Slide the counter up or down to set the minutes per day that you want to read.

  5. Tap 👁 the Close button
    .

Change your yearly reading goal

After you finish reading a book, the cover is displayed below Books Read This Year. The default yearly reading goal is three books per year, but you can increase or decrease your goal depending on how many books you want to finish.

  1. Go to the Books app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Home, then tap the reading goals button at the top right of the screen.

  3. Tap a book cover or a cover placeholder, then tap Adjust Goal.

  4. Slide the counter up or down to set the books per year that you want to read, then tap 👁 the Close button
    .

Tip: You can change the status of a book in your library to finished. Tap 👁 the More button
below a book or audiobook cover, then tap Mark as Finished.

Turn off coaching notifications

You receive encouragement and nudges from Books to help you reach your reading goals. You can turn these notifications off.

  1. Go to the Books app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Home, then tap your account button in the top-right corner of the screen.

  3. Tap Notifications, then turn off Coaching.

  4. Tap 👁 the Close button
    .

Turn off reading goals notifications

Books sends you notifications when you achieve a reading goal or set a reading streak. You can turn off these notifications.

  1. Go to the Books app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Home, then tap your account button in the top-right corner of the screen.

  3. Tap Notifications, then turn off Goal Completion.

  4. Tap 👁 the Close button
    .

Turn off reading goals

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Apps, tap Books, then turn off Reading Goals.

When Reading Goals is turned off, the reading indicators in the Home tab are hidden and you don’t receive reading notifications.

Clear reading data

You can clear your reading data, such as time spent reading, reading goals, and reading streaks.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPad.

  2. Tap Apps, tap Books, then tap Clear Reading Goals Data.

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