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UNABLE TO CHANGE ITUNES STORE/APPLE MUSIC APP STORE/ITUNES LANGUAGE FROM DEFAULT TO ENGLISH

I live in a foreign country and have signed in to that country App Store. About 1 year ago Apple decided that I have to speak the local language to be able to use the App Store or change my default language in my devices to English.

I have just been confirmed by the Apple engineers that this is actually the case and I must either use the devices in English or start learning Chinese, meaning it is either the defaulted language of the country, Chinese, or English as the only choices I have. Well I plan not to do either of them.

I believe that as a customer I have the right to use the device that I have bought in the language I have chosen and Apple can not dictate my language selection. I would accept the English operating language if my mother tongue was not supported, but it is and I want to continue using it. What do you think?

I think we need to start to give Apple some pressure to get the possibility in the App Store and iTunes to be able to use the programs in the language we want, not the one that Apple dictates.

My other option is not to buy anything from Apple as I have no idea what they are selling as it is all in Chinese.

iMac, iOS 12.1

Posted on Nov 8, 2018 5:24 AM

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UNABLE TO CHANGE ITUNES STORE/APPLE MUSIC APP STORE/ITUNES LANGUAGE FROM DEFAULT TO ENGLISH

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