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Setting the language on Apple

I live on the Åland Islands which is an autonomous region of Finland, but the language here is Swedish, not Finnish and I don’t understand much Finnish. Each time I want to search the Apple Store (not the App Store) page (or app) for info on a product, it opens in Finnish. It could have been Greek for that matter. It would have been of just as much use to me. Is there a way to set it to English, at least? At least the app (not the App Store)?

Finland has two official languages - Finnish and Swedish - like Canada has English and French. I wonder if the French-Canadians are being treated the same way as the Swedish-speaking Finns, that is being ignored by Apple?

Posted on Aug 7, 2020 5:42 PM

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Aug 8, 2020 2:58 AM in response to Wilfred Hildonen

Settings > General > Language & Region > iPhone Language [What is in here?]


Under --> https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage what language have you chosen?


It would be better if you can please re-post with a screenshot, in order to understand the phenomenon better. Images / pictures speak louder than words. (Do not provide any personal credentials, such as email id, apple id, IMEI number, Serial Number, Phone number, Order ID, if you are sharing a map ensure your location is not identifiable. etc)

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Aug 8, 2020 6:03 AM in response to SravanKrA

Since I am originally from Norway, I have set the language on the phone to Norwegian, which is quite similar to Swedish btw. And the same goes for the language of my Apple ID and account, of course. And yes, images speak louder than words, but I don't know if that will be true here, but here is one screenie of the folder with the Apple Store app in it, and then what I am met with when I open it - and the same if I go through the website of the Apple Store. There - in Safari - I can of course choose to go to any other country's site, but it would be more convenient if one could set the language for the specific site - and in countries with difficult languages like Finnish, at least English. Do you know that Finnish has got fifteen cases (German is considered difficult and has four) and no prepositions, but postpositions instead? And it is not an indo-European language at all.

It would be nice if Apple took into consideration that we live in a world with multiple languages and that several countries have got more than one official language, like Canada and Finland. Switzerland got four.

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Aug 8, 2020 10:49 AM in response to Wilfred Hildonen

Since a map was mentioned, perhaps I should add one, and perhaps it might explain the situation of Åland, which is the arquipelago in the middle between Finland to the east and Sweden to the west. It belongs to Finland, but people here have always spoken Swedish and it is an autonomous region, where the only official language is Swedish. It is like a tiny country in itself and it is of course easier to ignore it, but Apple prides itself with attention to details, and perhaps this is also a detail which needs attention?

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