Too many optional categories under add related name.

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Too many optional categories under add related name.

Hi

when I go to add a related name to a contact, a number of categories are available. mother, father etc ….

On my phone with iOS 14x, though, a myriad of foreign language options have appeared, e.g. French, German, even some with oriental characters.

I can go to “edit” but I now just see the original list: e.g. brother, spouse, manager etc. So I can’t remove the spurious foreign language listings there.

How can I clean up that drop down list to include just the English Language options please?

iPhone X

Posted on Dec 7, 2021 5:46 AM

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Answer 1

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MrHoffman

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Dec 8, 2021 6:56 AM in response to neil96

Settings > General > Language & Region.
Select just your preferred language(s) in your preferred language order.
Do not include Japanese, Dutch, Italian, and whatever else might included, if you don’t want those languages to show.

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Answer 2

Dec 7, 2021 7:29 AM in response to neil96

Is this your corporate iPhone? Then please contact the system administrator of your corporate
If it is your personal device, in that case, do you have any profile installed by your corporate/organisation/enterprise/School Management?
1. Erase the profile added by you If you have installed a profile on your own --> Install or remove configuration profiles on iPhone - Apple ...
2. Or please contact the system administrator of the organisation who provided the profile to you

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Answer 3

Dec 7, 2021 9:34 AM in response to neil96

That display looks normal when multiple languages are enabled.

Settings > General > Language & Region > select your language(s)

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Answer 4

Dec 7, 2021 1:04 PM in response to neil96

So to confirm, you have checked Settings > General > Language & Region > and have selected just your preferred language(s) in your preferred order, and you do NOT have Chinese, French, and whatever else was shown in that first reply?

For instance, three languages selected:

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Answer 5

Dec 8, 2021 7:52 AM in response to neil96

Delete the languages you do not want to see listed.

Delete French, Japanese, German, etc.

Slide each entry (tht you do not want shown) to the left to delete it.

See the list I posted earlier? That list shows English, Español, und Deutsch.

Make a mistake while deleting? From that same image, use the Add Language… entry to re-add it.

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neil96 Author

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Dec 7, 2021 9:27 AM in response to SravanKrA

Hi,

thanks.

but this is a personal iPhone,

no "profile" has been added.

All those potential categories of related names do not show up on my mac just on the iPhone

please see attached screenshots, it’s a pretty tedious situation.

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Answer 7

neil96 Author

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Dec 7, 2021 10:53 PM in response to MrHoffman

Hi MrHoffman

well yes if I go there to “Language andxreguon” I can see a whole lot of languages listed on the “preferred language order” pane.

but only one (English) is checked on the “IPhone language” pane.

there doesn’t seem to be a way to remove languages from the “preferred language order” list. Just re-order them?

screenshot below

below, just one language is checked.

thanks

Neil

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Answer 8

neil96 Author

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Dec 8, 2021 7:29 AM in response to MrHoffman

Hi Mr Hoffman,

thanks but I'm not entirely understanding.

you write "Select just your preferred language(s) in your preferred language order."

BUT in the long list of countries, where one may set the order none are "selected"

If I click "edit" I can individually remove them, but is it safe to do this?

I cant work out what those extra languages are used for.

I've no idea where those languages appeared from unless a recent iOS update installed them, I've been an iPhone user for a very long time and never had this issue before.

thanks

neilB

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