In a previous post, I lamented that Apple was no longer updating the manuals for Logic Pro in Apple Books. Today, I found out why.

Apple has switched to using the Tips app for User Guides. This applies to Logic Pro, MainStage, GarageBand, and Final Cut Pro. In fact, Safari, Preview, and Finder (the Mac, really) also open Tips when you want help and they all show User Guides when you do.

This is cool, and searchable, but one negative I have with it is that I don’t think you can have it open on an iPad, except as a Sidecar window.

A long time ago, I posted about how the manuals for Logic Pro and MainStage were available in iBooks. Yes, that post is so old that it was called iBooks, not Books or Apple Books.

I recently found out that Apple has not updated these books in nearly a year. Logic Pro 11 came out in May 2024 and the Books versions don’t cover the new features at all. The copyrights are dated 2023. So we’re back to using the PDF versions. I can only hope this is something Apple is working on and hasn’t completed yet, because the Books version works better than the PDF in my opinion. On the other hand, Apple seems to keep track of what people use in order to focus their efforts, so if those manuals in Books didn’t get many readers, they may have decided to not bother anymore. We’ll only know if they ever update the books, they will likely not tell us otherwise.

And hey, Logic Pro 11 is really cool, but that’s for another post.