Sync audiobooks between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
You can sync all or a selection of your audiobooks on your Mac to your device.
See Intro to syncing your Mac and your devices.
Sync audiobooks to your device
Connect your device to your Mac.
You can connect your device using a USB or USB-C cable, or a Wi-Fi connection. See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch over Wi-Fi.
Click in the Dock to open a Finder window, then select the device in the Finder sidebar.
If you connect your device to your Mac using a USB cable and can’t see the device in the Finder sidebar, see If your device doesn’t appear in the sidebar.
In the row near the top, click Audiobooks.
Select the “Sync audiobooks onto [device name]” tickbox to turn on syncing of your audiobooks.
With the tickbox selected, syncing is set to transfer all your audiobooks to your device.
To sync a selection of audiobooks, click “Selected audiobooks”.
Select the tickboxes for the individual audiobooks you want to sync in the audiobooks list. Deselect the tickbox for any audiobooks you don’t want to sync.
When you’re ready to sync, click Apply.
You can choose to sync your Mac and your device automatically whenever you connect them. See Turn automatic syncing on or off on Mac.
Before disconnecting your device from your Mac, click in the Finder sidebar.
Remove automatically synced audiobooks from your device
To remove an unwanted audiobook from your Mac and device, delete the audiobook from your Mac and sync your device.
To remove an audiobook from just your device while keeping it on your Mac, follow these steps:
Connect your device to your Mac.
You can connect your device using a USB or USB-C cable, or a Wi-Fi connection. See Sync content between your Mac and iPhone, iPad or iPod touch over Wi-Fi.
Click in the Dock to open a Finder window, select your device in the sidebar, then click Audiobooks in the row near the top.
In the audiobooks list, deselect the tickbox of the audiobooks you want to remove.
When you’re ready to sync, click Apply.
WARNING: If you delete an automatically synced item from your Mac, the deleted item is removed from your device the next time you sync.
Before disconnecting your device from your Mac, click in the Finder sidebar.