Oxford Advanced Learner's Dict 9+

Crushes and setting issue (iPad/iPhone)

Opening the app after a while being in the background ends up in a crash.

I’ve got American pronunciation turned off. Every time when I use Full text search to open an item the Hide American English speaker symbols option is ignored. I can see both speaker icons.

Yes. I reinstalled the app million times and it didn’t help.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you for your review. We are sorry to know you are having some trouble with it. Can you please write to us at eltdict.help@oup.com , including ‘Apple Issue’ in the subject line, providing more details about this issue including if possible, a video of the error that happens when you search for words? Our Customer Support team will immediately look into this to fix it. Best wishes, the OALD team.

You are OUP! World Leading, supposedly!

I implore you: sort out this tangle of inadequacy!
As an individual who influences with my written work, reference books & resources are the figurative bread & butter I crave.

I’m willing to outlay substantial coin on the reference works you publish. I will not, however, not - proffer a penny more for these sub-standard… ‘things’ you are offering here! No, Sir/Madam, not I!

There is much work to be done in the current scenario, you are the purveyors of digital dollop at the moment and it’s simply not good enough! Would you really expect the Dean to sign off on these?

When an institution such as Oxford, & all that it stands for is so very inadequately represented it’s… embarrassing and upsetting! I want to make you clearly aware, this simply will not do, old chap, nay!

I hold the whole Oxford Icon in the highest of regards, therefore; be good enough to bring these digital products up to standard, nay, in fact; exceed the normal standards set by everyone else, and supersede them with the pure excellence the Heritage deserves.

We are the human race, excellence in reference books is simply a must. Second rate doo doo is quite unapologetically unacceptable - understood? You bloomin well get a move on and sort it out, matey!

I’ll look forward to a complimentary collection (digitally, of course) of this suite of reference tools for taking the time to (so eloquently) bring this to your attention. Not a minute too soon, by the looks of it!

Academic Worthy

This dictionary appears to be academic worthy, jam packed with features. I think my concerns are primarily if purchased on mobile iOS could it also be used on Mac OS and vice-versa simultaneously. Secondly, hope any bugs have been sorted out by now. Would it be possible to get an answer to my initial question, please? Very happy to change my star rating, if need be.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thanks for sharing your feedback. We’ve made a note of your feedback. the OALD10 iOS app will only run on Mac for people with new Apple Silicon-based Macs, it won’t run on every Mac running Big Sur. I hope it helps. Best wishes, the OALD team.