Mixed languages in Shortcuts app after Iphone language change

I changed my iPhone’s language from Finnish to English. Everything else went just fine but the Shortcuts app now looks weird, with two languages mixed. I have never used Shortcut so there’s nothing made by me: the things displayed in wrong language (previous language, Finnish) are default examples pre-installed by Apple − seems more like a bug than a feature. It would be correct if I had created or downloaded something there, but everything was just default.


I’m going to start learning Shortcuts but I’d be more comfortable to do that when I knew everything is like it should under default English and not garbled like it’s now. The very reason why I changed iPhone language to English was to make learning and searching for information and help easier. I have no intention to change language back, I’m going to stick with English from now on.


Any idea how to ”reset” the Shortcuts app to it’s default empty state without the mixed languages? I would uninstall and install again but I guess that’s not an option because it’s a system app and can’t be uninstalled?


This happened on iPhone 12 / iOS 16


iPhone 12

Posted on Apr 27, 2023 12:53 AM

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Posted on Apr 27, 2023 11:05 AM

Yes, problem solved. After reinstall it’s clean. Sorry for being this stupid, I’m used to Android where it’s often impossible to uninstall system apps.

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Apr 27, 2023 6:20 AM in response to SravanKrA

Yes exactly. But I never created or downloaded anything myself or even use Shortcuts app before changing system language, those are examples provided by Apple that are part of the Shortcuts app and I think they should be treated as internationalized content like anything else that is built into an app and change language when system language is changed. The way it works now is that if you change your system language five times without ever opening Shortcuts app you end up with Shortcuts app that is garbled in 6 different languages. I think it's a bug but even if we think it's a feature, I'm looking for a way to start over with only one set of examples in English only - a way to reset the app.

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