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Change language settings for AppStore/itunes

Hello

I've been sucked into the Mac product universe! Just this week my wife and I bought new iPhone 4s (16 and 32 GB) and today I bought the wifi and 3G 64 gb iPad. I had the hardest time setting up an iTunes and AppStore account, which I assume is an apple account?

I'm currently living in Germany but I'm an English speaker. This makes for a very frustrating app and iTunes experience when EVERYTHING is in German! How can I set it to where all my iTunes and AppStore menus and things are displayed in English?

Thank you

Ipad, iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Oct 23, 2010 11:10 AM

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Oct 13, 2011 7:22 PM in response to Major Danger

My e-mails from Apple and app store app are in japanese but I live in the US. This is a new feature of os 5 icloud and the latest i-tunes. Clearly Apple has a language mapping issue.


Untill they get it fixed, try purchasing your music from the Amazon.com MP3 store. It has no language restrictions and the music is DRM free. Apple responds quickly to lost business. Sorry Apple.

Nov 27, 2011 5:54 AM in response to Major Danger

Just because of that language oversight, I ditched my iPhone 4. I still csnnot change the language on my last Apple product,f the iPad. Note, even though the iOS language and International settings (under General Settings) are set to English, the App Store is still in German. And this is not the developer descriptions. It is the whole Store interface.


I will wait for a short time for this problem to be solved. If by 20th December 2011, the bug is not solved, then I will fully switched to Android, which currently has the best user interface (in Ice Cream Sandwich), and no problems with languages. For instance, even though I live in Germany, my whole Android phone is in English, even the market and terms and conditions information.

Apr 9, 2012 3:28 AM in response to Jolly Giant

may be it is time to learn the language???

well I have been living here for 10 years and I am running a busisness. I am quite good at French - for - the -motortrade now but that does NOT imply that I want a French newspaper. It does not mean that I can make head or tail of the obscure translations for anything computeer related.

Besides, I paid for the Ipad with a Britsh credit card in a British store to avoid the problem, but no they kepping nannying me.

Please try to cope for a day with the appstore in an unwated foreign language, enjoy.

Apr 24, 2012 1:49 AM in response to Major Danger

I have the same issue and it's a major one here in spain where there is a high number of foreigners living. I've pretty much given up trying to buy stuff in the appstore because of the launguage issues. I really don't mind buying from the spanish store in Euro's but I want to be able to read whats going on.. a simple option to change the language is all thats needed.


At least Apple haven't gone the MS route and made the OS language specific to each country.. that would be the last straw!


Come on Apple give us a simple useable workaround

Sep 28, 2016 4:43 AM in response to annettep38

What kind of an answer is that?? As an example, I am a Belgian airline pilot who speaks 4 languages (Dutch, English, French, German). So you expect us to just accept the fact that our 800€ iDevices have a life of their own when it comes to languages or even that we learn more languages just to adapt ourselves to the incompetence of a company that gets our money?? It's the beginning of the end. We will all perish just like the Roman Empire did!

Change language settings for AppStore/itunes

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