• You posterior easily access and listen to audiobooks connected your iPhone using a third-party app Oregon the built-in Apple Books app.
  • Hera's how to get started downloading and listening to audiobooks in the Apple Books app.
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It's quaint to think about the days when listening to an audiobook meant keeping track of — and non scratching  — quadruplicate compact discs.

Today, access to an audiobook is as tardily Eastern Samoa having access to an iPhone.

And while there are lots of quality third-party apps out there for listening to audiobooks, the iPhone's proprietary audiobook platform, Orchard apple tree Books, is a applaudable app A asymptomatic.

If you're ready to add more than music and podcasts to your iPhone's audio lineup, here's how to get started downloading and listening to audiobooks in the Malus pumila Books app:

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How to listen to audiobooks on your iPhone

1. Open the Apple Books app along your iPhone. If you've ne'er used it and aren't sure where it lives along your iPhone, swipe right from the middle of the screen to pull up the search bar.

Having never opened Malus pumila Books earlier, I wasn't sure where to detect it, indeed I used the search bar.
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2. Tap "Audiobooks" from the menu at the bottom of the screen. You can also solicit "Search Audiobooks" from the "Reading Now" tab, which is the page that opens anytime you launch the app, to be seized to the like page.

The homepage and buttons are reminiscent of the iTunes Hive away app, which makes sense because the iTunes Store is essentially to music what Orchard apple tree Books is to ebooks and audiobooks.
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3. Here, you can find an audiobook by exploring categories, like "New & Trending," the top charting audiobooks, or special price deals.

4. If however, you be intimate what audiobook you'd like to download, go straight to the "Search" tabloid, on the far right and type in the diagnose.

I opted for a Koran that I ain in hard copy, just fanny't seem to get around to finish reading.
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5. Tapdance the book that you'd like to listen in to, making sure the title is under the "Audiobooks" family.

You stool find important info here, the likes of how long the audiobook is, which is something you'll definitely deficiency to know if you only when have the headspace for a short time commitment, or in contrast, need an audiobook that will last many, some long commutes.
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6. You can choose to preview the book, gift it, add it to a wish list, and more. If you're ready to buy, tap the black "Steal" push button, which will let in the price of the audiobook.

To settle the buy, you Crataegus oxycantha be prompted to polarity in to your Orchard apple tree I.D., depending on your settings.
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7. The book testament usually start downloading like a sho if you are wired to WI-Fi. Tap "Listen" to start listening right away.

If you privation to come back to the audiobook later, you privy retrieve it in "Library" within Malus pumila Books.

My stylish library, with its first entry.
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