ios7 dictionary management bugs?
I like the new dictionaries in ios7. However they seem to behave unexpectedly:
- open a Japanese book in iBooks
- select a word
- choose Define
- get "No definition found"
- click Manage
- all the dictionaries have a "cloud with arrow" icon next to them, which I assume means that the dictionary data need to be downloaded from the cloud
- click the "cloud with arrow" icon next to "Japanese-English", it turns into an "x" icon
- go back
- Done (back to the book)
- select the word again
- choose Define
- now I get dictionary entries
This is good. But I'm not online, so where did the dictionary data come from? It certainly wasn't downloaded from anywhere. That's one unexpected thing.
The other thing is that dictionaries seem to randomly disappear, so I often need to keep following the steps above to re-add the "Japanese-English" dictionary (for example). It seems impossible to "permanently" add a dictionary.
Finally, I tried clicking the "cloud with arrow" icon while I was online, to see what would happen. This time a circular progress icon appeared, and it took several minutes to complete -- so it seemed to be downloading data for the Japanese-English dictionary. But the next day, the Japanese-English dictionary was gone again.
How can a dictionary be enabled permanently? And why does it seem to be unnecessary to download dictionary data?
iPod touch, iOS 7
