My preferred language is UK English & my region is Brazil. The phone now shows the US date format (mm/dd/yyyy) which is incorrect for both the UK & Brazil.
How do I change this to the correct format of dd/mm/yyyy?
iPhone 6, iOS 8.3
Settings > General > Language & Region.
Set Region to United Kingdom and Language to English and you should get the correct result. It doesn't seem to be possible to set a prefered date format directly.
tt2
Yes that works, but I live in Brazil, so shouldn't my region be Brazil for finding things, etc?
If I put Brazil the date comes out mm/dd/yyyy which is incorrect for Brazil as well!!
I would think that region defines how you want the displays to behave, not where you actually are. GPS will let the device know where it is and what is local. I wouldn't expect to change my settings if I went abroad. Mine are set for UK and English respectively and dates show in dd/mm/yyyy format in Mail for example.
Presumably setting to Brazil & English gives US style dates, rather than UK ones, though I cannot see why. It should be easy enough to pick the correct mode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country. Perhaps it is a bug.
tt2
Many thanks for the quick reply. This is what I'll do.
(However it doesn't explain why Apple pushes the US format of mm/dd/yyyy on countries like Brazil where it is not used)
I'm leaning towards bug/poor implementation of regional differences. I'm testing with my iPhone 6+ in my hands and Language=English, Region=United Kingdom, Region > Advanced > Language=Portuguese (Brazil) gives me the correct short-date form in mail, but plenty of Portuguese words for the days of the week that I don't recognize.
tt2
Many thanks.
Could I ask you something else?
I'm having trouble now with the app store. It doesn't accept my apple ID / iCloud ID password - says this is incorrect for the app store & doesn't offer to send the "correct" one by e-mail. Do you know how I solve this?
See My AppleID and try https://iforgot.apple.com.
Presumably this is a different AppleID from the one you've used to sign into Apple Support Communities, because you obviously have the correct details for that account.
tt2
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