I've changed the my I pad to Chinese by mistake and something was downloaded now everthing is in Chinese and it seems to be in a set up mood. No icons come up on screen. How to I get it back into English?

so I'm having the same problem you described. Can you assist with the randomly pressing buttons. All I have is the home and power button and can't get off these screens with Chinese.

I'm ready to chuck this thing out the window as well! So frustrating!

Appreciate your help.

Hey there KCR875015,

It sounds like like you need to change the language your iPad is set to, but you cannot understand the language it currently is. The following article should help you do that:

iOS: How to change the language when it's set to one you don't understand

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2371

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

All the best,

Sterling

Ok so I have the same problem.. No english, NO icons as suggested from the link supplied the ipad is still in set up. It allows me to select english keyboard but thats all. I am close to going back to PC after doing this 4 times now as my ipad has been out for service and the loaners all set up like this each time. ???

Are you setting up from a backup?

yes, as this is a service loaner

its chinese or some sort of character language.

The directions in that link are pretty simple. Follow them.

No I cant get past the selecting wifi and that kind of thing... I dont have any icons! its the grey screen with all the settings that I cant get past.

If you are on the wifi screen, you already went past the language and country choice.

You need to sync with a backup that isn't in Chinese. Do you have one on computer?

when I select english it lets me select englishUS and then it all stays in chinese characters. Im about ready to chuck this thing out the window. Its connected to my computer and if I use one of the older backups it does not have my synced text books and all the useful things that I lost with my original ipad that went swiming via 4 year old.... the most recent back up Im trying to do it to was 3 days ago and the ipad was in english when I did the back up...

Im not high and Im not stupid I just cant read chinese symbols.

I just randomly pressed buttons until I got to the icons screen and was able to get through the sections with icons.

This was not a typical intuitive apple process... Not stoked on it. If its connected to an english computer with the language settings to english in everything including my apple id why wouldnt it just recognize that?

I agree, it's nuts. But you got it done!

Yeah for you

:-)