A Simple Guide to Deleting Audible Books on an iPhone

Get audiobooks off your storage quickly and easily

Last Updated: January 19, 2024 Tested

Are there books in your Audible library that are taking up a little too much space on your iOS device? With a simple process, you can remove them. This wikiHow will teach you how to conserve that much-needed space on your device.

Things You Should Know

Remove finished books from Audible's iOS app to create space.
You can manage your books in the "Device" tab of your app.
Swipe left to delete the book from your device.

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Open up Audible's iOS app. Audible's app icon looks like a book with a giant sun's rays shining on top of an orange background.
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Find your list of books you've downloaded to your device. Tap the "Device" tab from the list of books in your Library. You can switch back into Cloud tab later to download books from the cloud to your device;but when deleting no-longer-needed books, it's best to use the Device tab. Switching the view will help filter out any non-downloaded results from displaying and confusing you.

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Find the book you'd like to remove. Swipe from right to left, until the "Delete from device" button appears on the right side of the screen.
- If you find swiping an item too hard to do, you can tap "Delete" instead then tap the minus sign to the left of the book listing instead.
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Tap the "Delete from device" button. This will remove the book.
- Recognize that deleting the book will remove the book from your device, but if you marked the book as "Finished", doing so will knock this status off your account until you next pick up and try to read the book again.
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Repeat the process for whatever other books you'd like to remove from the list.

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Should I delete the 20 books that I have finished from my Android phone to get more space? If I delete them, will they be available to me in the future?

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if you remove the books, they will only delete off of your library but they will still be available for you to redownload (free of price, since you have purchased them in the past) when you go to the "My Library" section of the app and under "Titles".

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You’ll have to remove more books, try using a lite version if available, delete other apps on your device, etc.

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Do you lose the Audible books that you take off the device?

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No, deleted books are saved in the library of the Audible account and can be downloaded again an unlimited number of times.

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