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Originally Posted by kguil
I notice that the dictionary is slower
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All of iOS 7 is slower compared to iOS 6 (see all those painfully slow animations; gone is the former iOS fluidity, being replaced by garishly "flat" ugliness).
However, as to the reason for
dictionary lookups being slower, it could be related to what I described above: as soon as you download
more than one internal iOS dictionary, iOS will proceed to
search them all whenever you look up a word in iOS. (My guess would be that you have already downloaded more than 1 iOS dictionary, Kris.) If you're reading an
English text and look up the word
problem, iOS will search through
all of your downloaded dictionaries, looking up the word "problem" in them, which (naturally) slows it down. And, it will then pop up the definition of the word
problem in both the English-English dictionary,
and the German-German dictionary, even if you are currently reading an
English text, so that German-German dictionary definitions are irrelevant for you (for
now!).
Talk about
dumb.
There is simply
no flexibility: no way to tell iOS, "Hey, I'm reading an
English book now! Please, only look up words in the
English-English and
English-MyNativeLanguage dictionaries
for now; forget about all the other dictionaries, until I instruct you otherwise." Apple could have added
check-marks as
toggles next to each dictionary name -- tapping the dictionary name would then temporarily activate it, and tapping the dictionary name again would temporarily
deactivate it. But hey, that's
too simple and smart solution, isn't it; which is why Apple is unlikely to implement it.