iPhone 5, my 'define' word feature no longer is an option. How can I get it back?

Now the define option appears, and even when the language is set to English it now looks up words in french and french only. Havent found the option yet to look up words in English.

So you think i should reset my phone?

When you say notepad are you referring to the noted app?

All the settings youve mentioned are in English. After switching languages a couple times, the define option suddenly appeared in apps where it hadnt appeared before, even when i reset everything back to English. But as I've stated, even with all the language international keyboard settings in English, with the new found define option, the iphone dictionary still only looks up words in French (before it was Spanish).

Actually, now the dictionary looks up words in both french and spanish, depending on the word. The English words that dont appear in the Spanish and French dictionaries dont appear with the define option, and in ibooks, show no definitions for them.

izzymoshay wrote:

Actually, now the dictionary looks up words in both french and spanish, depending on the word. The English words that dont appear in the Spanish and French dictionaries dont appear with the define option, and in ibooks, show no definitions for them.

In Notes, set you keyboard to English (UK). The type the word "colour" and do select/define. What dictionary gets used (if any)?

Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of users who cannot get all the dictionaries to download for some reason, and I have not seen any total fix. You should be able to download/access US English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese by choosing the appropriate keyboard and selecting define for an appropriate word, and in all Apple apps.

You're a genius dude. The UK trick worked. I switched the phone to UK English, and chose the Uk Keyboard. Now I can define words in English, even if I'm using the American keyboard and the language of the software is back to American English. But yeah I see what you're saying. IT should be as easy as just selecting what dictionary you want to use for each word, although now it seems to do it automatically. If the phone recognizes the word as being a Spanish word, French word, etc.

Thanks a lot. I'll keep posting if I notice any other quirks.

hi! i did everything you said. i changed the language to spanish and french and typed "test" in notes and had it defined then it downloaded the dictionaries. problem is that the define option seems to appear only when the language is french or spanish but when i change it back to english or even british the define option won't appear. i have several speak options in spanish english and french though. please help

evenatic wrote:

hi! i did everything

Did you set your keyboard (not language) to English (Uk) and then type "colour" and see if you could get "define" to appear?

dude you're a genius! thanks!

I can get the English dictioery to apper and saves, but I need the Japanese one also.

If I download them (1 or 2) the do not appear until i back out and then go back in again.

If I switch or close the app its not there again and have to repate the process.

I want to save this option so I dont have to do this every time.

I have the Ipad 2 and Iphoe 4, its the same on both.

Any Ideas?

Walterfromwa wrote:

Any Ideas?

Lots of people are reporting this bug. Let Apple know they need to fix it via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

You seem to be ignorant of the various reports by users saying that they have to repeatedly download the dictionaries under iOS 7. Also this thread has nothing to do with iOS 7 before Walterfromwa's Oct 22 post, so reading all of it is really pointless.

TrickNostril wrote:

Totally ignorant.

Here is another example this problem, which you do not seem to understand is different than the one addressed by your solution. Your step 8, "Download the dictionary you want, " has to be constantly repeated in order to get it to always appear when Define is selected. This is presumably a bug that Apple must fix.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5455161