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berndbausch
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Q: App store user interface language

Recently, the user interface language of the App Store turned from German to Japanese. How can I set it back to German?

iPad 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 5

Posted on Sep 29, 2012 5:33 PM

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Q: App store user interface language

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  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 29, 2012 5:39 PM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 29, 2012 5:39 PM in response to berndbausch

    Hi berndbausch,

     

    Go to Settings>Store, and tap on your AppleID>View AppleID. Once you put in your password, your Account Settings will show, and there is a Country/Region option that you can click on to change your country and language.

     

    Hope this helps!

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by berndbausch,

    berndbausch berndbausch Sep 29, 2012 6:06 PM in response to gail from maine
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:06 PM in response to gail from maine

    Gail, thanks for this lightning-quick answer. This method doesn't work unfortunately. To change the UI language, I am forced to also change the billing country and re-enter my payment method.

     

    Apps Store doesn't accept my payment mehod - be it because of my Japanese street address or my Japanese credit card, I don't know.

     

    Is there a way to only change the language? It used to be German; I dont't know how and when it switched to Japanese.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 29, 2012 6:15 PM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:15 PM in response to berndbausch

    Hi berndbausch,

     

    How about Settings>General>International>Language....

     

    GB

  • by Chris CA,

    Chris CA Chris CA Sep 29, 2012 6:24 PM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 29, 2012 6:24 PM in response to berndbausch

    berndbausch wrote:

     

    Recently, the user interface language of the App Store turned from German to Japanese. How can I set it back to German?

    Log out of iTunes store.

    Settings > Store, scroll down to your AppleiD, tap it then Sign out and sign back in.

  • by berndbausch,

    berndbausch berndbausch Sep 29, 2012 8:25 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:25 PM in response to Chris CA

    Oh, I've done this more than once. No change.

  • by berndbausch,

    berndbausch berndbausch Sep 29, 2012 8:30 PM in response to gail from maine
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    Sep 29, 2012 8:30 PM in response to gail from maine

    My Ipad is set to German. All other programs use this language, just not the App store.

     

    Seems the language is tied to the payment country. Extremely stupid, if true. It was not so in the past; maybe it changed when I updated to ios 5?

  • by Chris CA,Helpful

    Chris CA Chris CA Sep 29, 2012 9:37 PM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 29, 2012 9:37 PM in response to berndbausch

    You can only use iTunes in the country you are in and with a CC issued from a bank in that country and a billing address in that country.

     

    You cannot use Japanese credit card in the German iTunes store.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 29, 2012 10:23 PM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 29, 2012 10:23 PM in response to berndbausch

    Hi again,

     

    See if the info in this article helps. It has you changing the language on your Mac or PC for the Store, but wondering if you do, if that won't also make it display in that selected language on your iDevices as well? Hope this helps.

     

    I'm guessing you are living in Japan, but speak German? So, you are living in the country where your credit card/address is, but you want to simply display the info in a different language. Makes sense to me.....hopefully these instructions will get you there!

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2242

     

    Best of luck! Let us know how it turns out!

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by berndbausch,

    berndbausch berndbausch Sep 29, 2012 11:29 PM in response to Chris CA
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    Sep 29, 2012 11:29 PM in response to Chris CA

    That's what I thought, Chris. Thanks for confirming. This is a strange rule, as one of a credit card's main benefits is to make purchases anywhere in the world, with the possible exception of North Korea. Even stranger is the rule that one must use the language of that country. I wonder if Canadians can use the app store in French? Or Irish in English?

  • by berndbausch,

    berndbausch berndbausch Sep 29, 2012 11:32 PM in response to gail from maine
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    Sep 29, 2012 11:32 PM in response to gail from maine

    Thanks again, Gail, but these instructions are for the itunes store, which is obviously different from the apps store on the ipad. They don't work in my case.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Sep 30, 2012 8:28 AM in response to berndbausch
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    Sep 30, 2012 8:28 AM in response to berndbausch

    Wow, that's a major bummer! Sorry there wasn't a solution.....what a weird thing that is

     

    Take care, berndbausch,

     

    GB

  • by Rajapintaja,

    Rajapintaja Rajapintaja Nov 19, 2013 12:20 AM in response to berndbausch
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    Nov 19, 2013 12:20 AM in response to berndbausch

    The iTunes and App store will usually only display the language of the country you made the subscription I can only down load from Japan iTunes and sometimes they do not have Apps or what ever but someties it depends on you language prefferences too ,it is quite annoying and confusing I use Finnish and English Swedish.

     

    Apple is not altogether internatonal because of international agreements and local protectionism that is why there is no Finnish dictionary and spell checker

    we are bound by the laws of the country we live in at the present and Apple and any other company does not want us to mixit up ,but they the internationalists Capitalists can do this  like make Apple pruducts in China cheap labour.

    yet it took years for Chinese to get Apple products ! Apple Japan is not very popular beause Japanese do not like the translations of Japanese by Nissei Japanese who live in the US!

     

    Look at all the language preferences  in Apple OSX they do nothing I use about 5 languages and find a total mix up my keyboard does not know what I am using better to have different computers install different language.