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TrickNostril Author

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

I've googled this numerous times and can't find anything. Last night I went to the Apple store to speak with a "Genius". 3 different employees told me they have never heard of this and recommended that I try "googling it". I figured I might be better off trying to solve this problem on my own...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Also, i'm not looking for the temporary fix of changing to British English. I live in the USA, not in Britain.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Dec 19, 2012 2:26 PM

33 replies

finikito

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Jan 6, 2014 11:54 AM in response to TrickNostril

Thanks! This helped me out, had the same problemn now I'm good to go!

Sep 17, 2014 10:20 PM in response to TrickNostril

A simpler solution that just worked for my broken dictionaries on my iPhone 5 after updating to iOS 8 was the solution found in this thread: ios7 dictionary management bugs? And it was a lot simpler to do:

Go to the Notes app
Write a definable word (I wrote both "test" and "iPhone" to be able to prompt both broken New Oxford American and Apple dictionaries)
Select that word and then "Define"

Doing that method, the dictionaries came up immediately. I don't know why they wouldn't come up in Safari, Facebook.app or any other apps. But as soon as they came up in Notes, they came up everywhere else.

Jan 20, 2015 2:18 PM in response to izzymoshay

Hi! This may be a bit of an old subject, but here's what I did!

I have got an iPhone 5 as well. You see that little play button thing when you highlight it? Press it and then this will come up:

Then you press 'define'! This was my first post, hope this helps! Cheers!

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