Vietnamese language appears when resetting iPhone to factory settings

Hello everyone, yesterday I bought a new iPhone 15 Pro Max. I decided to reset my iPhone to factory settings (there were certain reasons for this). After which I began to set my old settings, as it was before. When I went to the “language and region” tab, I discovered that I had the Vietnamese language. Vietnamese was simply added to the preferred languages, and it was also selected in the iPhone dictionary. The phone is Japanese, but how was the Vietnamese language chosen and this language is also in the dictionary. I'm worried something is wrong. Can you tell me how the Vietnamese language appeared in the factory settings, and not, for example, Japanese.

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Posted on Dec 10, 2023 11:07 AM

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Posted on Dec 10, 2023 11:39 AM

Vietnamese is a supported language. When you first set up an iPhone it lets you select language and region, right after the Hello screen. If you didn’t see this the phone had been set up previously.


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Dec 10, 2023 11:39 AM in response to EpicVanilka

Vietnamese is a supported language. When you first set up an iPhone it lets you select language and region, right after the Hello screen. If you didn’t see this the phone had been set up previously.


Was this a new phone purchased directly from Apple or an Apple authorized iPhone reseller? Have you verified that it is new using this site→Apple - Support - Check Your Service and Support Coverage

Dec 10, 2023 12:00 PM in response to EpicVanilka

Every language supported by Apple is available on every iPhone. So I could select Vietnamese here in the US, for example. I thought you had done a factory reset, but that doesn’t change the language selection dialog. As you are in a part of the world where Vietnamese is spoken it isn’t unreasonable that it would be on a list of preferred languages. I would guess that it would also have Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Korean, Thai, and possibly Hindi on the list of preferred languages. I have Japanese here in the US, along with Korean, Hindi, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and many others.

Dec 10, 2023 11:48 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

You understood me wrong. The phone is completely new, there is a warranty, it was activated for the first time, I checked everything. When I turned it on for the first time, everything was perfect. I used the phone for a while. Then I decided to reset the phone settings, and not reset the phone itself to its factory state, but only the phone settings. Nothing was erased from the phone. And then, after I reset the phone, I started setting up my usual settings. I went to the “language and region” tab. In the “preferred languages” tab, Vietnamese was selected in addition to English and other languages. But why it was chosen there, I don't understand how the Vietnamese language is related to a phone that was created for Japan. The most logical thing was that it should have been Japanese.

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