This app definitely needs an update. No doubt. Interface can be sort of slow but I was just with a girl from Columbia and this app is the only one that would re arrange the words properly to make a coherent sentence in Spanish. Anybody who’s not a nitwit knows than a sentence in English will almost never be in the same order from start to finish in another language and vice versa. Apple and Google always puts it in normal order. Also I just learned this app integrates with ig and others to instantly translate using their method and it works every time
I’m not sure why everybody is crying about this app. It is easy to use and looks way more professional than google translate. Although they both are good apps, i prefer apple’s voices over poor robotic voices google has to offer (for french at least). The conversation feature is by far better and that includes pronunciations. Keep working on it and it’ll be even better!
Since I have this translator, I can use my safari browser to read the books. Very easy to use. Of course it’s not perfect but I believe it will. First thing I would like to add more settings, for example like always translate from English language to Russian. Do not even try to recognize any different languages. Because Right now recognizing languages is so terrible. I hope it will work better very soon. Thanks Apple team)))
Whenever I use this app, the microphone works when it wants to work. I click on the mic and the squiggly starts, but it will not interpret the spoken words and when it does, it’ll input the wrong word.
I’m using Spanish to English translation and this has been happening for quite a while. Many many updates have been done on this iPhone 12 Pro and the same followed for the iPhone 11 Pro when I had it.
When is the problem with translation going to get fixed??
I’m trying to use it for my college homework in Spanish.
I have to resort to google translation, but sometimes I just want to use my phone with the app that came with the device.
This app was auto installed on my phone with the latest update. I already had Google Translate and let me just say, Google Translate is SO much better! This app is not at all easy to use and it cannot instantly translate written words the way Google does. I hadn’t noticed right away that there were now two apps on my phone for translate. At first I had thought this was an update for Google Translate and I was so upset because I thought I would be lost in a foreign country unable to understand anyone around me. I was so thrilled when I finally figured out that Google Translate was still the same. I promptly deleted this app from my phone and will NEVER download it again or attempt to use it again.
This could be a really nice app, but the states the interface gets into are confusing. Often the app somehow gets into a state where it’s in the wrong language and it’s hard to get it to the right one.
It would be helpful if the app made it plainly obvious, at all times, which language is active for translation. Often it has no indication of this onscreen. And the placeholder text (“Enter Text”) changes languages when you tap on it, further confusing which language is active.
It would make more sense if the placeholder text always gave you the name of the language it’s expecting. (Like, if French is active, always put “French” in the field as placeholder text.) “Enter text” is not helpful placeholder text because your users aren’t morons. You tap on that field and a keyboard shows up! What else are they gonna do? Much better to show the active language instead.
Some things aren’t very obvious how to do in the app. For example, everyone saying there’s no way to swap the langurs: there is, it’s just not remotely obvious. When the text box is selected there will be a small circular indicator next to the language that you’re translating from, and to switch just tap the other language.
This works and is clean from a UI standpoint, but from a UX standpoint it’s not clear to users (most of whom are coming from Google Translate and expecting a similar UX).
It’s amazing to me that a company so dedicated to ensure all the little details are taken care of, such as Apple, would allow such a bad version of a translation app to be part of the Apple apps. Not only is it impossible to copy and paste text, but the translation is just plain bad. It’s like going back to Google translator back in 2006 when it was considered great for survival, but incredibly subpar for any type of correct translation. It’s incredible to think that the reason we don’t have a calculator app for the iPad is because they haven’t come up with a “transformational and elegant” version of it that Apple deems worthy of bearing the Apple name for the iPad, yet Apple is totally fine with releasing a mediocre version of a translator app.
This is a great and accurate translator app and I am glad that Apple finally got on board in creating one, but it needs more languages including language variations. In case you're not aware - Spanish (Spain) is NOT the same as Spanish (Mexico) and can often differentiate depending on what the translation is. Please get up to date in regards to this and other similar issues plus the confusing difference between how the app works when On-Device mode is “on” and/or “off”. As I mentioned before; Translate is a great, necessary, and needed addition to Apple’s many apps and has amazing potential but until these mentioned and other bugs within the app are fixed then it will never be able to compete with and/or let alone be on the same level as/with Google Translate. Thank you tremendously in advance!
Apple has put some interesting and useful features into this app, and I do use it from time to time for that reason. I would prefer to use it every time, but unlike nearly every other translation utility available, there is no ability to directly swap the input and output languages. The user is forced to use four clicks to change the individual languages, which becomes so tedious when looking up more than one word as to make the app unusable.
Even more insulting, Apple has removed the ability to provide feedback for this app from their feedback page, so negative reviews on the App Store are the only option left.
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