One of the lesser-known features that are available on iOS 15 is the ability to change the language of the app that you use. No, we are not talking about globally changing the language on your smartphone, but rather individually changing the displayed language of apps. This is useful when you need to see the contents of a particular app in a specific language, but don’t want to change the whole device to that language due to reasons known to you. Maybe some apps make better sense to you in a native language while the overall interface is better in English. Whatever the case may be, iOS 15 allows you to make this change, albeit to just a few apps at the moment.
Step 1. Open the settings apps on your iPhone running iOS 15.
Step 2. Scroll through the settings menu until you see the list of apps on your device. Now, we had to try out a few apps before we actually spotted this feature. As a reference, we will tap on the Gmail app from the list of apps in the settings menu.
Step 3. You will now see a list of relevant settings that you can change for the app including notifications, access permissions, etc. In this window, tap on the ‘Preferred Language’ option. By default, it will be the language that you have globally set for your iPhone. In our case, it is English (UK).
Step 4. Now, you will see a list of languages from which you can locate and tap on the language that you want the app to work in.
Once you confirm this, go ahead and open the app and you will see that the app alone will now run in the new language that you selected. Now, while this feature is available on iOS 15, it is up to the individual app developers to leverage this feature and make it available for their apps on the platform. It is definitely a useful feature and we hope to see this bleed into more apps going forward.
Finally, if you do not spot the language you want from the list of available options, it simply means that iOS doesn’t currently support that language and your best case scenario is to wait it out.
