Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Apple Books shortcuts
Shortcuts for reading and managing books in Apple Books. Use these to search Books, open current book, or book Mode.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
Book Mode
Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.
Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
Show books I want to read
Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.
Turn on continuous scroll
Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.
Switch to page turning
Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.
Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Open a book from my library
Opens a specific book from your library, prompting you to pick which book.
Open Books library
Changes the Books app view to the Library tab to show all your Books, PDFs, Samples, and more.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
Open my book samples
Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.
Open Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
Open Book Store
Opens the Books app to the Book Store tab where you find and buy books.
Open Finished books
Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.
Folder Details
Categories
Total shortcuts
20
Member Extras
Download Folder
Download a ZIP with all the shortcuts from a folder in a single download.
To skip the Gallery, drag-and-drop them into a folder in the sidebar of Shortcuts.
More From The Library
Open from my Health data
Presents a menu of Health tabs grouped by section, health records, and categories of health data, then opens to the tab of your choice.
View Gemini in the Model Garden
“Gemini 3 Pro is designed to tackle the most challenging agentic problems with strong coding and state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. It is the best model for complex multimodal understanding. Compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro, it improves significantly on complex instruction following and delivers outcomes with better output efficiency.”
Open Audio Descriptions preferences
Opens the deep link into Settings > Accessibility > Audio Descriptions where you can toggle the feature on or off to, when available, automatically play audio descriptions.
Browse The Catalog
Automators Membership
Enhance your experience with bonus shortcuts, folder bundles, and exclusive perks.
