Translate 4+

First thing to note is that I haven’t used any other such apps. Seeing as this one comes with iPhone, and I don’t travel often enough, I don’t see a real need to have more than this one.
In real use, it serves its purpose well enough and helps me cover the basics when I need to. No substitute for actually learning a language, but that’s on me…and I’m trying to.
Anyway, one very useful feature that is missing is the ability to do a one-button swap of the languages.
For example, I largely use Translate to go from English to Spanish, but sometimes I need to go from Spanish to English, and it would be easier if there was a quick way to swap the languages (and revert back) without navigating both of the drop-down menus.
You know like if you’re booking some form of journey online and you have a departure/destination point and if it’s a return journey you click one button to reverse the journey…? Something like that.
If that feature already exists, I haven’t found it.

Apple Translate is a very good app! One of its highlighting features is the incredible design. It’s modern with rounded corners, which makes it a joy to use. Another highlighting feature is its unparalleled commitment to user privacy and security, which Google Translate lacks. This alone is what makes it a great alternative because Google freely steals an alarming amount of user data, in return for a ‘better’ experience. All translations made on Apple Translate are completed on device which makes it very secure. Speaking of translations, they are very fast and accurate, which is great. The selection of languages is also good, but it does miss quite a few. However, this isn’t something to concern yourselves about because Apple will inevitably add all languages in the foreseeable future. Overall, I strongly believe that more users should start using Apple Translate as their main translation app!

Given all Apple stands for in the way of perfection in app design (still no iPad Calculator…) it honestly amazes me that they put this clearly flawed translation app out. One of the most important features of a translation app should be to be able to choose an input and output language but I am unable to do this. I can click on a langue on the list but the second I type in the input box it reverts back to a previous selected language. Even closing and restarting the app is not clearing this issue and I so I am left with an app stuck translating German in to English. Another major flaw is the lack of a “swap” language button to allow you to quickly swap the input language between the pair of languages you have previously selected from the drop down list. I muse that the only way such bugs can persist in this app is that no one at Apple uses this app… From my perspective, the only benefit compared to Googles Translate is the size of the app but I think that’s only due to stunted functionality. Please improve.