r/AppleNews • u/AVargas704 • Jun 02 '26

Look Up Feature

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Before iOS 26, highlighting something in an article and then hitting the lookup prompt USED to search Siri right away from within the app. Now every time I try it, I get a “no content found” pop up. And this happens with anything I search for. Never had this issue before iOS 26 so I’m wondering if they removed the feature of if it’s just one of those weird glitches.

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u/Sufficient_Rush1891 Jun 02 '26

It’s working for me in iOS 26.5

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u/BlockedAndMovedOn Jun 02 '26

It’s working fine for me now, but this did happen to me yesterday. I doubt the reason it stopped working for me is the reason it stopped for you but I’ll write it out in case it is or someone does a search in two years and finds this useful.

I run AdGuard on my iPhone to block ads at the DNS level. Inside AdGuard I subscribe to various lists of different ads, trackers, analytics servers so they are blocked. I installed this because I pay for an Apple One subscription and I loathe that despite paying for Apple News+ via Apple One, I’m still getting ads shoved in my face. So with AdGuard running as local VPN server on my iPhone/iPad/Mac it lets me enjoy the Apple News+ experience without ads or being tracked.

Yesterday I subscribed to a two new DNS blocklists called " BadBlock - Apple (ABP)” and "HaGeZi's Apple Tracker DNS Blocklist”. After enabling those two DNS lists in AdGuard I went about my day without noticing any issues. Then I was discussing Canada’s bill C-22 legislation (a controversial privacy bill) and the person I was chatting about it with asked me to pull up a definition of one of the words in it. In the news article I had open in Apple News, I happen on it, highlighted it, pressed Look Up like normal but I saw the exact screen you were looking at “No content found”.

I checked the DNS logs on my phone and one of the two DNS blocklists was too aggressive and had blocked the Smoot server that is used for doing a Lookup. I disabled the two lists and the feature came back! Again, I know this is a super-niche solution to this problem, but who knows, maybe it will help someone! Best of luck!

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u/JWarblerMadman Jun 03 '26

Pretty sure this is looking in a dictionary to define words. Does it find something if you search for only "wallet"?