Hi Mike, I've changed the subject line to reflect your question about automatically downloading iTunes purchases you make on your Mac to your iPhone. Yes, it's possible to browse for iBooks and Apps on your Mac using iTunes, purchase these items from iTunes on your computer, and have the item you purchased automatically download onto your iPhone or other iOS device. This also works for music purchases. On your iOS device, go to Settings > Store. If you have a new iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, this is the last of the settings items for the options that are built into your device, just before the individual settings that may be present for apps that you purchase. On my iPhone I have to do a three finger flick up to scroll to the second page in order to access the "Store" setting. You can also use the four finger tap in the bottom half of the screen to go to the last element of the screen. (Note: I have far too many apps with settings loaded onto my iPhone to navigate to the "Store" s etting by going to the last element on my screen, so I just scroll to the second page, touch the bottom of the screen above the home button, and flick left to get to the "Store" setting.)
Double tap on the "Store" button. On the "Store" screen you can set up Automatic Downloads, so that new iTunes Store purchases made for your account will automatically download to your device. This includes "free" apps, books, or music, and applies to purchases made from any location, such as your computer or another iOS device that shares the same Apple ID for your iTunes account. There are separate switches for Music, Apps, and Books, and you can double tap any of these to toggle the switch to "On" or back to "Off". So you might want to have your new app and book purchases automatically download to your iPhone, but not your music purchases, if you buy a lot. There's also a switch that allows you to use cellular data to download these new purchases when not connected to Wi-Fi. I usually leave this turned off, so that large items don't download until I have a Wi-Fi connection in order to avoid having this add to my cellular data usage. There is a similar setting to activate automatic downloads for books, apps, and music under your iTunes Preferences menu on the Mac under the Store tab. On your computer, press command-comma, then navigate to the "Store" tab (Command-4). I leave these unchecked -- especially the option for apps, in case a later version of an app loses accessibility, since I don't want my working versions to be replaced. However, you might want to automatically download music purchases made on your iPhone to your home iTunes library. When iBooks was first released, it was not possible to browse or purchase books through iTunes. This is a relatively recent feature -- meaning that it has been around for some months, but some users may not be aware of it. You may find that book browsing, in particular, is easier to do from iTunes on your Mac. List users who have both an iPhone and an iPad will recognize that more iBooks browsing options are available from their iPads than from their iPhones because of the larger screen real estate. If I want to view options for items like "Popular Pre-Orders" or "Best of the Month" on my iPhone, I can copy and paste the link from iTunes and mail it to myself. If I double tap on that link from my iPhone, I'll be able to access that special page, but I may not find some of those link options under the Store screen in the iBooks app, simply because it would make the screen too cluttered. >From iTunes on your Mac, you can go directly to browse the Books section. I'm >going to assume that you have QuickNav turned on (by simultaneously pressing >the right and left arrow keys to toggle this on or off), so that I can type >(and you can press) "Left arrow", instead of "VO-Left arrow" (or >"Control-Option-Left arrow") to navigate, and so that when I tell you to >"press the button" you'll simultaneously press the up and down arrow keys >instead of using VO-Space. For those readers who are using TrackPad commander >and the touch interface that is similar to the iPhone screen, it's even faster >to just flick left, right, up, or down and double tap to press buttons or >activate links. Mac Mini, iMac users, and users with Mac Laptops made before >2009 will need to get a Magic Trackpad for this experience. 1. To browse the iBooks Store from iTunes on your Mac, select the "iTunes Store" in your sources table. Pressing Command-Shift-H will automatically select the iTunes Store, or you can choose "Home" under the "Store" menu of your iTunes menu bar, or else simply navigate to your sources table, interact, and navigate to "iTunes Store" 2. Navigate using your right or left arrow key to "Books". I usually do this by pressing right arrow from the sources table to navigate through the buttons for "Home", "Music", "Movies", "TV Show", "App Store" and "Books". When you right arrow from each category, such as "Books", there will be a menu button, such as "Books, menu button", that you can press. Pressing "Books" takes you to the main page for Books in iTunes, but using the "Books, menu button" lets you select specific categories. It will also let you navigate directly to "Audiobooks" if you are looking for that content. 3. Arrow down through the categories of the "Books menu" to select your browsing category. The first item will be "Audiobooks", but all subsequent menu items will refer to iBooks entries. These will be categories like "Enhanced Books" (with multimedia options as well as text -- haven't tried these), "Quick Reads", "Popular Pre-Orders", and "Under $3.99", followed by topical features (e.g., currently "Valentine's Day"), and then a long list of subject categories in alphabetical order (e.g, "Arts & Entertainment", "Business & Personal Finance", "Children & Teens", "Classics", "Cookbooks", "Fiction & Literature","Textbooks"). 4. If you want to return to selecting the browsing categories from anywhere in the iTunes Store, you can go back to the main search field by pressing Command-Option-F. Then, either right arrow past the sources table to the buttons for Home, etc. or I find it faster to first down arrow from the search field then left arrow through the buttons to the "Books, menu button". (You cycle through all the buttons for store categories in reverse order, but it takes fewer key presses to get to this button). This kind of navigation is really fast with TrackPad commander, by the way. Starting from the search text field, I flick down once then flick left 6 times to the "Books, menu button" and double tap. Then I flick down through the categories in the menu and double tap on the one I want. If you're accustomed to the touch screen navigation on your iPhone, you may really like this. 5. Another thing to point out is that you can view your purchases from the iTunes Store, if you are logged into your account, by navigating to "Purchased" under the "Quick Links" heading on any page. This is also a new feature. So if I want to check my previous book purchases, I can set my rotor to "Headings" (e.g., by simultaneously pressing either the up and left arrow keys or up and right arrow keys), then navigate through the headings (by pressing the down arrow key) to "Books Quick Links", then right arrow to the "Purchased" link and activate it. I'll be shown a page with my previous book purchases. I can also switch to checking on previous music, TV show, and app purchases from this page, or search for entries. There's a "Purchased" entry under the "Quick Links" for the main iTunes store home page, as well as the individual categories. The "Purchases" link is always the last item under the "Quick Links", so if you want to speed up your navigation a bit, when yo u set your rotor to "Headings", navigate to the heading just after "Quick Links" then left arrow twice to get to the list for previous heading and then to the "Purchased" link under "Quick Links". HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 8, 2012, at 5:59 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hello Esther, > > Your posting below causes me to wonder something else: > > Is it possible to peruse iBooks stores or other App stores on your Mac and > have the item you purchased download to your iPhone when you go into the App > store? I find that I am far more proficient on my Mac, in terms of web > surfing than on my iPhone. If the answer to this question is in the > affirmative, then how do I indicate that the item purchased is intended for > use on the iPhone as opposed to on the Mac? > > Thanks and kindest regards, > > Mike > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. 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