Is there any way to select the language in the Mac App store without changing your billing country?
Specifically, I am an expat living in Netherlands with a Dutch address but would like to use the App Store in English.
The only option seems to be to change the country to the UK, but if I do that I cannot purchase anything because I have no billing address there.
Thanks, but as you say you must use the country of the billing address (in my case the Netherlands), but this automatically switches the App Store to the Dutch language, which I cannot read. It would be better if the language and location were seperate options so I could use my billing address in the Netherlands but the English language. If anyone knows how to do that let me know, thanks. I'm sure there are many people like me living in The Netherlands who would prefer to use the store in English or select their own language.
The laptop is English and was bought in the UK.
However, i live in Spain and my ISP is Spanish hence my default App store language is Spanish - i tend to use
my sons app store account because at least the apps download in English. 😀
It's a royal pain in the butt to be honest but I'm at a total loss as to what to do.
thanks for your input though guys, it's appreciated.
gato chavez wrote:
hi coney
sadly i have no macbook available at this time but you can try the same procedure as i did with the iphone, try to uninstall everything itunes related and, also, change the default language of the laptop to english, then re install itunes in english as default language and re enter your credentials
i'll try to get ahold of c macbook and try to change the appstore language and let you know
gato chavez wrote:
hi coney
sadly i have no macbook available at this time but you can try the same procedure as i did with the iphone, try to uninstall everything itunes related and, also, change the default language of the laptop to english, then re install itunes in english as default language and re enter your credentials
i'll try to get ahold of c macbook and try to change the appstore language and let you know
Dah•veed wrote:
customers should be able to choose their own language.
How many online stores for major corporations, with virtually world-wide sales of their products, can you point me to which provide that experience?
Amazon does it. All major airlines do it. Even fairly localized companies like Eurostar do it. Apple needs to get in sync with the needs of its worldwide market.
We have the same problem - expats who live in France. I took care to set up my devices whle in the US, but my wife set up her first device (an iPod) while we were in France and now can't seem to change it on that device or her newer ones. It's most frustrating.
Dah•veed wrote:
I have an account with Amazon USA, walk me through the steps to view Amazon USA in both French and Japanese, please?
Log in to Amazon.com. Scroll to the bottom. Click France or Japan. If you click Canada, there's a link in the upper right corner to choose English or French. I have one ID at Amazon, and it works on all their sites - even remembers all my shipping / billing addresses and credit cards. But having said that, I do see a warning on a product page if they can't ship that product to my "default" shipping address. When I'm in France, I can still order nearly all the products on the UK site for shipment to my French address.
Sorry, not what this thread is about. You aren't changing the language of the store, you are changing the store. Apples & oranges. You can do the same with the Apple Stores, you just cannot purchase from the other stores.
Ah, Dah*veed - on the Amazon Canada site, I AM changing the language. I can do the same on the Eurostar site. Amazon doesn't restrict me from visiting other sites like Apple does. I can order products from any of the Amazon sites with the same userid - but Amazon may restrict where I can ask that the order be delivered.
I had the same problem on one of my Macs - I'm English and living in Belgium and registered to the Belgian store. The Apple Store on my son's iMac was in Dutch, despite everything else on the machine being in English and the App Store on my other Macs English too...
Anyway, I seem to have solved it by clicking on Store - View my Account - then opening each option (Apple ID, Payment Information etc.), not changing anything, just cancelling, then clicking "Done" at the end.
This put the App Store into English for me.
I really don't know, I've never given it much thought to be honest. However, you sound as though you know your stuff so I think we should leave it there. Thanks for your input.
i dont know if you managed to do it but i just did
No i didn't manage it, but I'd be really happy if you told me how you did it Gato!
only problem is, i'm trying to do it on my Mac (I don't have an iphone, this is Spain and they're too expensive and contract phones are non existent) so do i do the same on the App store on my Mac?
no i want it in English Chavez.
mine was in spanish and i changed the apple store language to english
on featred just restart your credentials of apple id and set the language to english, worked for me
could you elaborate Gato? talk me through the process? thanks. 😕
i want to do it on my macbook pro Gato. any ideas?
I have an account with Amazon USA, walk me through the steps to view Amazon USA in both French and Japanese, please?
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