Has anyone collated information about how Apple manage dictionaries, including added words, primarily in macOS, but also across iPadOS, IOS – and over multiple devices?
I’d like to understand what happens right now – without having to check everything out step by step! I know it feels as if I have to repeatedly add words, the same words, again and again. But afterwards, I’m never quite sure if it is my memory or reality.
I want to use the same dictionaries everywhere. Can’t think of any sensible reason to want different ones on different devices (e.g. two macOS machines), nor across platforms (macOS, iPadOS and IOS). Nor between different apps on any one machine. Someone might have a reason, but I don’t.
I’d like to think that if I add a word to the dictionary, it synchronises across all devices. And if I get a new device, it can grab the information from iCloud or the other device(s).
And that if I have added a word, my added word will be properly included as a potential correction or prediction.
And that I can manage my added words so I can include tenses, plurals, etc. Some sort of a dictionary review editor – I might add a word and later decide to check which words I have recently added and ensure variations are included. Also to be able to easily remove words I might accidentally have added!
The final bit, being able to use those same principles for Firefox and Microsoft Office apps. Might be more difficult since each of those already has its own way of doing things. But if nothing else, making additional words synchronise across all apps on all devices would be great.
Yes, I do use a range of very specialist words. Primarily medical/scientific.
Around thirty years ago I was finding it crazy that Microsoft Word and Excel had entirely separate dictionaries. And that was when the disc space occupied actually mattered!
I’d like to understand what happens right now – without having to check everything out step by step! I know it feels as if I have to repeatedly add words, the same words, again and again. But afterwards, I’m never quite sure if it is my memory or reality.
I want to use the same dictionaries everywhere. Can’t think of any sensible reason to want different ones on different devices (e.g. two macOS machines), nor across platforms (macOS, iPadOS and IOS). Nor between different apps on any one machine. Someone might have a reason, but I don’t.
I’d like to think that if I add a word to the dictionary, it synchronises across all devices. And if I get a new device, it can grab the information from iCloud or the other device(s).
And that if I have added a word, my added word will be properly included as a potential correction or prediction.
And that I can manage my added words so I can include tenses, plurals, etc. Some sort of a dictionary review editor – I might add a word and later decide to check which words I have recently added and ensure variations are included. Also to be able to easily remove words I might accidentally have added!
The final bit, being able to use those same principles for Firefox and Microsoft Office apps. Might be more difficult since each of those already has its own way of doing things. But if nothing else, making additional words synchronise across all apps on all devices would be great.
Yes, I do use a range of very specialist words. Primarily medical/scientific.
Around thirty years ago I was finding it crazy that Microsoft Word and Excel had entirely separate dictionaries. And that was when the disc space occupied actually mattered!