Tuesday, September 21, 2010

iPhone has changed nationality

Apple iPhone - iPhone has changed nationality

Please can anyone explain why my iPhone 3G has decided it is French, and will NOT be told to alter its language or keyboard.

It is quite clearly set for UK English and for a QWERTY keyboard - going into SETTINGS - GENERAL - using either the INTERNATIONAL or the KEYBOARD buttons, the settings are quite plain and clear.

IT is using a French keyboard in all functions and apps that use a keyboard - e.g. SPACE is ESPACE and RETURN is RETOUR (plus other appropriate variations). the layout is AZERTY and not QWERTY. I have even tried switching to other languages and keyboards then back again, but it won't listen. What is in SETTINGS appears to be irrelevant - it just does its own thing

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Just to be clear: no matter how many times you press the globe icon at the bottom of the kb (immediately left of 'espace', the localisation remains French and other ones you have enabled in Settings never appear?

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You might have chosen multiple keyboards in the settings.
So a button on the left side of the spacebar appears (with a globe symbol). You might have accidentally pressed that button which toggles the keyboard language.

I experienced the same when I chose multiple keyboard languages (English, German, and Spanish) too.

What I did was I went to Settings > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards.

There you'll see all the keyboards you activated. You can deactivate them and leave only English there by tapping on Edit, then eliminating all other keyboards you do not need.

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