Apple removed the traditional page turn animation in the iOS 16 update to provide a simpler slideshow animation, but users didn’t like the tweak.

iOS 16.4 Beta adds a new toggle button to the Themes and Settings section of the Books app, allowing users to choose how they like to turn the pages.

The options include “Curl,” “Slide,” and “None.” The slide is the default animation in iOS 16, and Curl is the page flip from iOS Slide is the default animation in iOS 16, Curl is the page flip animation in iOS 15 and earlier, and None is a simpler animation that simply moves from page to page.

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In official support documentation, Apple said, “More and more book lovers are listening to audiobooks, but only a small percentage of books are being converted to audio, which results in millions of books being inaccessible. Many creators, especially independent creators and part-time creators associated with small publishers are unable to create more audiobooks due to the cost and complexity of production.”

In support documentation, Apple believes Apple Books’ digital narration technology can help make it easier for everyone to create audiobooks and meet the growing demand by providing listeners with more books.

Digital narration content complements professionally read human audiobooks and helps expand audiobooks and make more audiobooks more accessible to more people,” Apple said. Apple Books remains focused on expanding the scale of human audiobooks, but in a way that aids development through AI.”

Apple’s support documentation goes on to say that there are currently two AI-generated voices. The adult female voice is called Madison, and the adult male voice is Jackson, both of whom speak American English.

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