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Can’t quickly switch between languages

The app doesn’t have a button for alternating the language in one go. So, if you’re writing in English, and translating to Spanish, then you want to write in Spanish (e.g. from a menu), you have to manually scroll through all the languages again, select Spanish, then go to the other language and scroll through to English. This may seem like a minor point, but when in the heat of the moment e.g. the waiter is taking your order and you’re trying to translate and interpret, it’s extremely frustrating.
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Joke of an app

Only works about 50% of the time, despite having downloaded dictionaries for offline use. It’s irrelevant anyway because when I am not in an offline situation, it just fails to display translations - instead showing a redacted stripe. I know I’m not online, because I switch over to Google Translate which works straight out of the box. Another classic junk app from Apple.
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I pay outrageous money for iPhones, because they are the best, right?

Why hasn’t this app added more supported languages, yet? ESPECIALLY for IOS 17?! Latin should ABSOLUTELY be included, not only for personal purposes, but educational. Latin is fundamental to medical education, translation of older texts, animal studies, and so much more! And we need to go BEYOND Latin! Like dialects would be great, but that’s a lot. We could at the very least have options like Spanish (Central & South America), as well as, Spanish (Spain) as they are very different. And that’s just one example. With all of the ways to communicate globally, I would think Apple would be on the forefront of evolving this type of technology in communication. Not to mention, with all of the global migrations, be it from refugees, immigrants, people who are studying abroad, etc., it is ESSENTIAL that we are able to communicate in a sincere and meaningful manner to avoid conflict and discourse. We should absolutely be expanding on this aspect of these issues to evolve as human beings.

C’mon Apple. We can do better. We have to. Especially if you claim to be the “best” and after the radiation issues in France? Or all of the many other issues your company has and will face as tech and AI continue to evolve. You can’t say your the best in security anymore. Pegasus proved that, even though your company tried to keep it quiet. And if you can’t step up? Then I fully support a new company that will.
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This app is just ridiculously bad they should just delete it and leave the job to google translate

I really can’t emphasize how poor quality this app is. It is honestly the worse app on my phone. Not only is it not user friendly it also fails to translate certain words correctly when it’s not frozen. Examples of the app’s poor performance are as follows: can’t easily edit a mistake in the words needed translated without erasing the entire message, app will sometimes only translate part of the message (I.e., 4 words out of 20), it does not detect languages, only a handful of language are available to be translated.

Literally any other translation app is better. Don’t know why I keep bothering to use this app. You’ve let me down too many times, Apple. You can spend millions on advertising the iPhone but can’t spend a few hundred dollars paying an intern to design a better app. Shame on you.
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A CHILD COULD TRANSLATE BETTER 🤣🤣

This app = ☠️☠️☠️☠️ I mean is is accurate? Most of the time NO. Whenever i put in something in Japanese it is most of the time wrong in mean do you even know the meaning people who did Japanese? I want to also point out how the microphone thing is USELESS. When i use it it never comes out the way i say it. I mean you should get rid of that option.
I also wan to say i speak Japanese so i know it this is right or wrong. When i did use this i thought “ WOW these people are really DUMB!!!!!” As for now i still do think that.
Though i may be a mere child to me kids knowing more that the people who made this app feels like i am smarter than the people who translated Japanese to english. Sometimes me and my little brother would make fun of this app for being terrible at it’s only job it has: translating. I am a type of person who don’t like it when people get the translation wrong as to me they might of said something that could insult me.

Must I add I hope the people who owns or programs this app see this and hire a person who knows the language of what they want to translate this. If they did do that DO BETTER!!!! I child for goodness sake it smarter than the app. Also the app is like 0 is has NO PURPOSE.I hope they update this due to how unreliable this app is.
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THE BEST TRANSLATION APP

now i have tried almost every translation app out there and after a long search I finally found it an app that’s true to its words and works in any language for any conversation from a single question to a run on sentence this app is for it and works flawlessly and I recommend that you atleast try it because ya don’t loose anything for just trying out the app worse case scenario you don’t like it ( which is highly unlikely) so then what? You just delete it, the world won’t end if it’s not for you, just try it out, it’s the best,

Thanks for reading I appreciate you taking the time to read all of that lol have a nice day and I hope this helped😊 and remember Jesus loves and died for you and is coming back soon, are you ready?

Happy travels! 💜🫶💜
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Doesn’t work

Once it goes offline (even with language downloaded) it doesn’t work. None of the fixes are of any use either

Stoopid

Why? WHY DO I ALWAYS HAVE TO DOWNLOAD LANGUAGES? I HAVE GOOD WIFI! DOWNLOADS DONT EVEN WORK! 😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬 Edit: Plus, I was once spamming Japanese and it just said “ I’m Sorry, I’m Sorry, I’m Sorry, I’m Sorry.”

Sussy Baka

But I love this app! I can do Spanish or vanish, AND JAPANESE!!!!

When it works it’s fine

But it is really unstable and often stops working and needs to be uninstalled and reinstalled.
Also it just stops working for days or weeks

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