How to listen to audiobooks on you iPhone?

I've downloaded an audiobook from itunes, but I cannot listen to it anywhere on my iphone. I have gone into the music app but audiobooks never appears as an option. Please help. Thanks

Then you haven't downloaded the audiobook, the Audiobooks category only appears when the Music app finds one or more audiobooks installed. How and where from did you download this audiobook? iTunes store directly or via iTunes on your computer?

Similar Messages

How do I get audiobooks onto my iphone 5?

How do I get audiobooks onto my iphone 5? I don't have the option available in my music app. audiobooks isn't there at all. When I can see my iphone on itunes in my computer it doesn't give me the option to sync audiobooks. I can't even find them when the phone is connected. It only shows me regular books.

Audiobooks should be under the Books tab
Open itunes, Click on your iphone at the top of the page, or sidebar, depending on your settings, click the books tab, then go to audiobooks

Re: audiobook download to iphone - how to listen to audiobook on iphone without wifi?

Is there a way to listen to an audiobook on my iphone4 without being connected to wifi?

If you rent from your iphone, then you cannot watch from any other device.
Why can you not download it to your iphone?

How to listen to audiobook on iphone

I downloaded an audiobook and synced it to my phone but can't find on my phone anywhere. Please help!

Where did you download audiobooks?
Do you have Audioibooks app?

HT1296 Listening to audiobooks on iPad/iPhone

I have purchased some audiobooks on my computer but now cannot find them on my iPad or IPhone. How do I pull them up and listen to them?

Under the Books tab in iTunes, with your phone connected, scroll all the way down, is sync Audiobooks checked?

HT2458 how to reset your passcode on you iPhone?

hi, how do i restet my passcode for my iphone?

Restore it on the computer you last synced with.

How do u delete contacts on your iphone 4s?

How do u delete contacts on youe iphone 4s

Select the contact in the Contacts App>Edit>Delete Contact.

I purchased a book on iBooks thinking I could listen to it on my iphone. I can't find it in the iTunes or iBooks library. Could you tell me how please. Thank you

I purchased an audiobook on iBooks thinking I could listen to it on my iphone. I can't find it in the iTunes or iBooks library. Could you tell me how please. Thank you

Depending on which device you used to purchase the audiobook, you may have to specifically enable its sync.
See this, from iTunes' help:

I have an iphone 4s and the speaker has stpped working when I play music with i tunes or you fox. It works when they ring me but not when i want to listen to music :( do you know how I fix this?

I have an iphone 4s and the speaker has stpped working when I play music with i tunes or you fox. It works when they ring me but not when i want to listen to music :( do you know how I fix this?

Go to settings/music/volume limit tap on that. Make sure it is set to OFF and when you tap it that the slider is at max

How to CORRECTLY Remove Audiobooks from iPhone

After much trial and error, I have finally unlocked the mystery of how to remove Audiobook files from the iphone without changing the file name or type. Here are the steps:
1. Plug in your iPhone to your computer
2. Launch iTunes
3. Click on the left-hand menu option that says "books"
4. All the audiobooks (such as iTunes or Audible) will be here with cover art for each one. If you right click on these titles, you will have the option to "Uncheck Selection" or "Check Selection" depending on whether or not it is on your iPhone.
5. If you want to remove an audiobook from your iPhone, simply right click and select "Uncheck Selection"
6. Sync your iPhone
7. If you are still having problems, you have probably changed your sync options for music. Change them so that you are only syncing selected items(there are 2 different places to control these options, the "Summary" tab(which should have the "Option" "select songs and videos..." checkbox checked) and the "Music" tab(which should have the "selected playlists, artists,..." checkbox checked).
8. Magically those pesky audio books that you know and love are no longer on your iphone
9. Write Apple a nasty email and ask why $10 million in audiobook revenue hasn't warranted a software change to make this easier to understand and do.

Thanks for the suggestion and I can certainly do that but it seems less then ideal. I actually already had set my iphone to only sync selected music playlists and until I read your suggestion I didn't realize that a new playlist had been created and checked to sync! I wonder why Apple treats Audiobooks inconsistently from an interface point of view to podcasts. Both show up as Library items in the Itunes pane, both have special category buttons to access in the ipod application and both store the listening position you were at when they sync back to itunes. Yet when it comes to how to specify sync preferences to the iphone one has it's own tab (podcasts) that allow you to a number of useful options such as ALL, SELECTED or ALL UNPLAYED and audiobooks get a playlist that only shows up on the iphone music sync panel and is either all in or not ???! Wow Apple's UI watchdogs must have been asleep at the wheel! I would have expected the exact same treatment as podcasts perhaps just putting another listbox of books and the same choices as podcasts on the same tab in the iphone sync UI panel.

How do I remove Audiobooks from Iphone???

Unlike Podcasts or music, audiobooks seem to be always put on the iphone even after they have been listened to. I cannot seem to find any way of getting them off the iphone after I have listened to them besides removing them from my itunes library or changing them to some other media type. Anyone figure this one out? Why doesn't Apple allow you to check off whether you want individual audiobooks put on your phone in a manner similar to podcasts???
Message was edited by: Lou R
Message was edited by: Lou R

Thanks for the suggestion and I can certainly do that but it seems less then ideal. I actually already had set my iphone to only sync selected music playlists and until I read your suggestion I didn't realize that a new playlist had been created and checked to sync! I wonder why Apple treats Audiobooks inconsistently from an interface point of view to podcasts. Both show up as Library items in the Itunes pane, both have special category buttons to access in the ipod application and both store the listening position you were at when they sync back to itunes. Yet when it comes to how to specify sync preferences to the iphone one has it's own tab (podcasts) that allow you to a number of useful options such as ALL, SELECTED or ALL UNPLAYED and audiobooks get a playlist that only shows up on the iphone music sync panel and is either all in or not ???! Wow Apple's UI watchdogs must have been asleep at the wheel! I would have expected the exact same treatment as podcasts perhaps just putting another listbox of books and the same choices as podcasts on the same tab in the iphone sync UI panel.

How do I get and listen to audiobooks ?

I would like to get some of the classic books as audiobooks that I could listen to on my phone. Where do I get them and how do I listen to them?

You can get them from itunes, the library, Amazon, book dealers, wal-mart, best buy, etc.
You put them on itunes and then sync them to your iphone like any music that you have.
You can use the help menu on itunes to learn how to purchase books/music or to learn to import cd's.
You can also look here:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

How do I sync audiobooks across to my iPhone?

Can anyone tell me how I am supposed to sync audiobooks across to my iPhone?
I have a whole bunch of them, and they are all plain old MP3 files, with a .mp3 file extension, but I have changed the "Media Kind" for them, by selecting File > Get Info, and then choosing the Options tab. Under there, I change Media Kind from "Music" to "Audiobook".
Having done that, they do all show up under the Audiobooks section in iTunes on my Mac.
I have my iPhone set to auto-sync, ie: "Manually manage music and videos" is unchecked.
I have "Sync only checked songs and videos" checked, and the relevant individual audiobooks that I do want to copy across are checked.
I just want a few at a time, so I only have a few checked.
Needless to say, Apple doesn't supply an Audiobook tab when viewing the iPhone settings in iTunes when the iPhone is plugged in.
I have plenty of space left on my iPhone. I do not get any error messages when attempting to sync. iTunes on my mac has no problems locating the files. But still, the audiobooks will not copy across.
The only way I can get them to copy across is to create a playlist for them, copy them from the Audiobooks section into this playlist, then go under the iPhone's settings/preferences when it's plugged in, and check this new playlist that I've created.
Then they will copy across to the iPhone.
But that's a bit of a hack-job. Is there no way to "correctly" copy across an audiobook to an iPhone?
I am running the latest versions of everything:
Mac OS X 10.5.5
iTunes 8.0.2
iPhone OS 2.2.1

I'm such an idiot...
Well, actually, I'm not entirely to blame on this one...
I just figured out that Apple has buried an "Audiobook playlist" checkbox under the Music tab in the iPhone's settings / preferences.
I didn't have this "playlist" checked.
So even though the individual audiobooks themselves were checked, because the main playlist itself was not, nothing was copying across.
So I'm the fool for not noticing the box wasn't checked — but can you blame me when Apple decides to hide the "Audiobooks" section under the "Music" tab instead of in its own dedicated tab, like they do with "Video", "Podcasts", etc.
Why does "Podcasts" get its own section, but "Audiobooks" doesn't?
How is an audiobook any more like "music" than a podcast is?
Now where's that rolls-eyes emoticon...?

Morning. I download podcast on my iMac and listen to them on my iPhone. Since last week the iPhone plays the podcast back slower than recorded and with a echo. How can I solve this? Regards, Menno

morning. I download podcast on my iMac and listen to them on my iPhone. Since last week the iPhone plays the podcast back slower than recorded and with a echo. How can I solve this?
Regards,
Menno

Hello,
If you're in a country where there's an apple shop (unfortunately not mine), go check it and ask the employee about it: he's gonna check your Iphone on a "device"
I've got an iphone 5 and it's working very well with me but I have to admit that its battery lasts (slower) than my Ipad 2.
Still i can help with some tips that may improve your iohone's battery by an hour in addition (hopefully):
- close all apps by multitasking....
- do NOT keep the brightness to the max
Believe me you're gonna regret changing your phone to a samsung
Hope i've helped and sorry for my bad english (has english as 3rd language)

How do I transfer my itunes audiobook to my iphone?

I downloaded audio books to my Itunes account on my desktop computer, but it's not syncing or and don't know how to upload it to my Iphone.
How do I transfer my itunes audiobook to my iphone?

The same way you transfer anything.
Sync it.

How to listen to audiobooks on you iPhone?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for