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Q: Why cant I change the display language in app store?

Hi.

 

I live in Finland and I have a finnish credit card so the app store and itunes is in finnish language. I dont speak nor understand finnish. Is there a way to change this to English or swedish which I understand? I have tried to change the language in the setting but it always jump back to finnish. Please help!

iPad, iOS 6.1.3

Posted on May 3, 2013 8:22 AM

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Q: Why cant I change the display language in app store?

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  • by Texas Mac Man,

    Texas Mac Man Texas Mac Man May 3, 2013 8:43 AM in response to K1337g
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    May 3, 2013 8:43 AM in response to K1337g

    Is this what you have tried?

     

    iOS: How to change the language when it's set to one you don't understand

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2371

     

     Cheers, Tom

  • by K1337g,

    K1337g K1337g May 3, 2013 9:02 AM in response to Texas Mac Man
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    May 3, 2013 9:02 AM in response to Texas Mac Man

    Yes I have tried that. But it does not work. I have my entire ipad set to swedish, but when I open itunes or app store it is all in finnish. Quite disturbing...

  • by Diavonex,Helpful

    Diavonex Diavonex May 3, 2013 9:05 AM in response to K1337g
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    May 3, 2013 9:05 AM in response to K1337g

    Try this work around:

     

    Settings>General>International>Regional Format>Singapore (you'll get english)

  • by K1337g,

    K1337g K1337g May 3, 2013 9:24 AM in response to Diavonex
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    May 3, 2013 9:24 AM in response to Diavonex

    I have tried that but it is still in finnish. No change. I am ok with using the finnish store but I want the display language to be in swedish or english, since I dont understand finnish.

  • by K1337g,

    K1337g K1337g May 4, 2013 4:58 AM in response to K1337g
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    May 4, 2013 4:58 AM in response to K1337g

    I have partially solved the problem. I changed the language to english in itunes on my pc. I now have everything in english on my pc and ipad but not in my iphone. What could be the problem? Odd....

  • by Diavonex,

    Diavonex Diavonex May 4, 2013 5:00 AM in response to K1337g
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    May 4, 2013 5:00 AM in response to K1337g

    Thank you for your feedback

  • by K1337g,Solvedanswer

    K1337g K1337g May 4, 2013 5:09 AM in response to Diavonex
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    May 4, 2013 5:09 AM in response to Diavonex

    Ok this is how I solved the problem:

     

    Changed my iphone language to english and my region format to singapore and then back to my default settings.

     

    Thats it. Real easy!

     

    Thank you for the tip Diavonex.

  • by Diavonex,

    Diavonex Diavonex May 4, 2013 5:14 AM in response to K1337g
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    May 4, 2013 5:14 AM in response to K1337g

    Well done!

  • by Rajapintaja,

    Rajapintaja Rajapintaja Sep 11, 2013 9:27 AM in response to K1337g
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    Sep 11, 2013 9:27 AM in response to K1337g

    Apple always turns my Finnish or English to Japanese I am in Japan but I found that when I call they want to speak English they say they can not understand my Japanese so how do I learn then ? In some parts they insist it in J@panese ,so I want to use Finnsh because I love Finnish more than Japanese.But Apple do not like Finnish because of Nokia and so Finnish is my friend just to **** the US and Japanese off I spent a lot of money on Apple and they just **** on us ,there is no support for Finnish but they can make Finnish pages for the web site so they have a Data bank of words surely they can make Dictionaries and spell checkers ,for example while I am writing this the computer could send the word coded to a directory and put all of them in Alphabetical order ,so when the Finnish writers for Apple have been writing years and years all those words and phrases could be stored like so. this goes to the heart of the computer that we want to find a way to write quickly and better so the software should be design for language learners and writers. some you may look at my writing and say it is not well written I am trying to improve ,but I want to the computer to do it for me because they are quicker.

     

    I also want bi lingual interface of any languges so that we can learn a language at the samre time as using the computer and software to link Dictionary, Help ,Help Tags cocos

  • by sheffi,

    sheffi sheffi Jan 12, 2014 9:58 PM in response to Rajapintaja
    Level 1 (13 points)
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    Jan 12, 2014 9:58 PM in response to Rajapintaja

    Depending on the country you made your Apple ID in that will be default interface language ,

    however if you change your interface and region ,it may change ,although when your Log in ID times out it will go back

    to default . I want to Apple to Bi lingual user interface we can choose any 2 languages on any platform ,because many users are not native English but many are bi and multi lingual .

     

    Japanese Key board is Haragana and Romaji =roman

    Even Japanese do not use Hiragana =Kana preferences on Qotoeri

    They type using Roman then it is converted to Kanji , I use Hiragana,but the drop down menu of many kanji makes it difficult to render the correct reading as many kanji have many readings

     

    All this technology and time and workers and we can not even get a decent multi lingual

    Interface , All the code writers have to do is to design a field that can contract and expand depending on the localisation

    Text and insert any 2 languages

     

    We can not even customize localisation on OS 7 8 9

  • by sheffi,

    sheffi sheffi Jan 13, 2014 2:26 AM in response to K1337g
    Level 1 (13 points)
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    Jan 13, 2014 2:26 AM in response to K1337g

    Is possible to use iPhone to close the sliding doors in the cafe I am in , because it opened by itself and takes ages to close and draft of cold air comes in ,the staff have no clue how to set it or stop it from mal functioning.

    New tech doors are useless ,waste recourses ,can not be closed by man power.

     

    When we are employing robots to do something there inability to think rational will destroy humans and what will be left will be stupid Robots unable to rectify a mistake God help us if Apple goes that way.

  • by sheffi,

    sheffi sheffi May 17, 2014 4:09 PM in response to K1337g
    Level 1 (13 points)
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    May 17, 2014 4:09 PM in response to K1337g

    I wish that I was disturbed by Finnish !  Jag önskar att jag var störd av finska Kunpa olisin järkyttynyt Suomi