---
title: "Amazon Updates iOS Kindle App"
description: "Yesterday Amazon released and update to the Kindle app for Apple devices to go along with the update to iOS 7.  It was more than a visual update.  The update brought the app in line with many of the f..."
url: https://bookwi.se/amazon-updates-ios-kindle-app/
date: 2013-09-19
modified: 2013-09-19
author: "Adam Shields"
categories: ["Kindle Tips"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Amazon Updates iOS Kindle App

[![ios Kindle app update](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/screen568x568.jpeg)](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle-read-books-ebooks-magazines/id302584613?mt=8)Yesterday Amazon released and update to the Kindle app for Apple devices to go along with the update to iOS 7.  It was more than a visual update.  The update brought the app in line with many of the features of the stand alone ereaders.

The main two feature updates are

- X-Ray – a potentially helpful way to follow characters and see the basic outline of a book
- Upgraded categories functionality to allow a book to be in more than one category.  This allows categories to act more like tags then folders. Personally I use a folder for current reading, but I also leave the book in a content category (fiction, theology, review books, etc.)

This is in addition to updates over the last year that have added multi-color highlighting, better dictionary lookup, ability to get book samples, social media access

h/t [GoodEreader.com](http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/amazon-brings-x-ray-to-apple-ipad-and-iphone)