How to recover deleted books using backups

If you accidentally delete a book or even your entire library, don’t worry, you can restore it using backups.

Book Tracker creates automatic daily backups (last 7 days) and also allows you to create manual backups whenever you want.

When you can recover deleted books

  • If the book was deleted today → restore from the latest automatic backup.
  • If it was deleted earlier in the week → restore from the automatic backup of that day.
  • If you regularly create manual backups, you can restore from one of them.

⚠️ Important: restoring a backup replaces your current library with the contents of that backup. Any books added after the backup was created will not be included.

How to restore an automatic backup (iPhone & iPad)

  1. Open Book Tracker.
  2. Go to Settings → Backup & Restore.
  3. Review the list of backups, automatic daily backups are labeled with date and time.
  4. Select a backup from before the book was deleted.
  5. Tap Restore and confirm.
  6. Your library will reload, including the deleted book.

How to restore on Mac

  1. Open Book Tracker.
  2. Go to Book Tracker → Preferences → Backup & Restore.
  3. Select the backup created before deletion.
  4. Click Restore and confirm.

Using exported backups

If you had exported a backup file earlier (e.g., to Files, iCloud Drive, AirDrop, or external storage):

  1. Open Book Tracker → Backup & Restore.
  2. Tap Select File.
  3. Choose the exported backup file.
  4. Confirm restore.

Best practices

  • Always create a manual backup before doing large edits or imports.
  • If you accidentally delete a single book, restore the backup closest to that date.
  • After restoring, create a new backup of the recovered library to preserve it.
  • If you’re using iCloud sync, once you restore on one device, the recovered data will sync to all devices.

✅ With backups, Book Tracker makes it easy to recover books deleted by mistake — your library is always safe as long as you keep backups up to date.