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One thing I found odd about Duolingo is that they disabled offline lessons. It was the most powerful thing they had -- to me at least. I was able to board planes and just grind for hours, I could travel cross country and do the same. Even in normal travels I was able to use it without constant disconnects -- it was great.

But they decided one day to just nuke it... for no reason as far as I could tell. My subscription went with it. Shame.

EDIT: based on the responses below I did a quick search and it appears that it was silently removed, refactored and then returned slowly back to people depending on their account age/device. This is actually incredible news (to me).




Not with you on that. I just did your exact usecase on my flight of 9+ hours and it worked just fine? Maybe they shuffled around the way you set something to download? I can confirm that this feature still exists (atleast on iOS)


I think you can do one level oer exercise while offline, not more


Offline is still very much a thing: https://support.duolingo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410000601869.... Maybe you just had a bug?


Sounds strange - I've been able to do offline lessons as recently as this week. On android with a free account. Maybe this was something temporary in the past?


How did this not result in refunds for thousands of people?


I'm curious, did offline mode show ads? If not, then I can suspect why it was disabled.




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