American Heritage Dictionary 5

I was on the 17 beta, but dropped back to the regular iOS17 to see if maybe it was 17 beta breaking it. AHeD was still broken. Maybe my resetting my iOS to non-beta didn’t really take. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, I got a reply from the developer today (blaming my problems for being on the beta iOS)… 🙄 But I discovered that they actually fixed it for both iOS17 and iOS17beta!! Yay!! 👍 Good job, Enfour! Thanks! ———————————————————— Old review: As usual, Apple made 10,000 changes to iOS, undoubtedly for more twattokbook crap, that broke everything else; and the developer of the best dictionary software ever made can’t be bothered to download the developer preview iOS, and recompile its software so that it Just Works. The program still runs, it lets you type in a word, but then the screen goes blank. No definitions. Also, all my bookmarks are invisible too. At least they’re not *gone*! But come on enfour! Recompile this program, so it works properly under iOS 17!!😩

I thoroughly enjoy and use this dictionary almost daily. I prefer off-line dictionaries for the specific reason that they are off-line. It’s available to me all the time. This dictionary is the best one that is available and provides me with all the details that I want. When I look up the word, I don’t want to just know the meaning I want to know a bit about it. This dictionary goes above and beyond. The company is strongly supporting it, which makes me very happy. Recently, there was a problem that turned out to be a bug in the operating system. The company and Apple fix it very quickly and so now I have my Dictionary back. As I want to be writer, this is one of the best tools I have.

New Apple update rendered this app inoperable. As requested, I sent full purchase details & history, so they could "get me up & running" again. Then they just stopped responding. Don't waste your money on an app that will stop working, from a developer who just doesn't care enough to support it. Update, August 2021 So now several months later, the developer responds that the app works fine, that support always answers emails, that I must have purchased a different version (??), and that maybe I didn't use the right email address. In other words, somehow it's my fault that, after working fine for years, the Apple iOS update was incompatible with the app. All my info was sent, twice, but somehow it's not enough, or not the right info, or sent to the wrong place. I have deleted the app & purchased the version from MobiSystems, which works just fine. Life is too short to waste time on a company that just doesn't care very much.