In Ukraine, it is already quite easy to buy an iPhone, but since the phones are not officially imported into the territory of our state, you will have to install the Russian language on the iPhone yourself. The word install sounds intimidating, we'd better write "set up the Russian language on the iPhone", because the procedure is very easy.
We will start from the fact that most apple smartphones are delivered from the USA, so let's consider an example of a menu in English.
Change the language on the iPhone, repeat after us:
- Go to settings Apple iPhone. To do this, we need to click on the icon " Settings":
- In tinctures we are looking for the item " General":
- Then we go down, look for the item " International"and feel free to click on it:
- Now we are interested in the very first menu: " language". It is this that will help us change the language on the iPhone to Russian:
- Apple has taken great care of almost every inhabitant of the planet. By default, you can use more than 50 languages. We are also interested in the Russian language, or Ukrainian. Choose the one you want, press the button Done and enjoy your favorite native language.
- In just a few seconds, the iPhone will set the Russian language.
iPad now has a variety of keyboards for typing in many languages, including Asian and right-to-left languages.
Adding keyboards
To enter text on different languages on the iPhone are used various keyboards. By default, a keyboard is available for the language selected as the iPhone system language (in Language & Text settings). You can add other keyboards in the Keyboard settings section.
Adding a keyboard.
1 From the Settings menu, select General > Keyboard > International keyboards".
The number in front of the arrow indicates the number of keyboards already available.
2 Click "Add a new keyboard" and select the one you want from the list.
Repeat this action to add more keyboards. Some languages have multiple keyboards.
For a complete list of supported iPhone keyboards, visit www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html .
Changing the list of keyboards.Choose General > Keyboard > Intl. keyboard", click "Change" and perform the desired action:
To remove the keyboard, pressthen click Remove.
To reorder a listdrag next to the keyboard to a new position in the list.
Switching between keyboards
To enter text in different languages, you can switch between keyboards.
Switch between keyboards while typing.Press iWhen you press this symbol on the screen for a short time the name of the newly activated keyboard will appear.
You can also press and hold a key until a list of available keyboards appears. To select a keyboard from the list, swipe to the desired keyboard name and release your finger.
You can type letters, numbers, and symbols that are not directly displayed on the keyboard.
Enter letters, numbers, or symbols that are not on the keyboard.Press and hold the corresponding letter, number, or symbol, then move your finger to select one of the options. For example, on a Thai keyboard, you can enter Thai numbers by pressing and holding your finger on the corresponding Arabic numeral.
Input in Chinese
There are several ways to enter Chinese characters, including Pinyin, Cangjie, Wubihua, and Zhuyin. It is also possible to enter Chinese characters finger on the screen.
Simplified or Traditional Chinese Pinyin Input
Use the QWERTY keyboard to enter Chinese characters using the Pinyin method. Suggested Chinese characters are displayed as you type. Touch a character to select it, or continue typing with Pinyin to see more character options.
If you continue to type in Pinyin without spaces, suggestions for writing sentences will appear.
Traditional Chinese Cangjie input
Use the keyboard to compose Chinese characters from components based on the Cangjie keys. Suggested Chinese characters are displayed as you type. Press a symbol to select it, or continue typing up to five full components to display more options.
Simplified Chinese (Wubihua) input
Use the keyboard to build Chinese characters based on up to five components arranged in right order: from left to right, from top to bottom, from outside to inside and from inside to the finishing stroke (for example, the Chinese character (circle) must start with a vertical stroke
Suggested Chinese characters are displayed as you type (the most commonly used characters appear first). Touch a symbol to select it.
If you are unsure of the correct character, enter an asterisk (*). To see more options, enter another stroke or scroll through the list of symbols.
Press the match key to show only characters that match exactly
match the characters already entered. For example, if you typed--and pressed
match key, then a less commonly used character will appear as an exact match
Input in traditional Chinese Zhuyin method
Use the keyboard to enter Zhuyin letters. Suggested Chinese characters are displayed as you type. Tap a character to select it, or continue entering the Zhuyin method to display more character options. After entering initial letter the keyboard changes to display additional letters.
If you continue to enter Zhuyin without spaces, suggestions will appear.
Handwriting Simplified or Traditional Chinese Characters
You can write Chinese characters with your finger on the screen. As you type character traits, iPhone recognizes them and displays the corresponding characters in a list, with the most closely matching character displayed first. When you select a symbol, the corresponding symbols appear in the list as additional choices.
Some complex characters can be entered by entering two or more component characters. For example, enter (fish) then (needle) to get the character (part of the name international airport Hong Kong) appearing in the character list with an arrow next to it. Touch a character to replace the entered characters.
When handwriting in Simplified Chinese, Latin letters are also recognized.
Convert between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
Select the symbol or symbols to be converted and click "Change". See Editing - Cut, Copy and Paste.
Drawing Chinese characters
When handwriting format is enabled for Simplified or Traditional Chinese, you can enter Chinese characters with your finger as shown below.
Japanese Input
For input Japanese characters You can choose between QWERTY, Kana or Emoji keyboards. You can also enter emoticons.
Japanese kana input
Use the Kana keyboard to select syllables. To enter syllables that are not on the screen, press the arrow key and select the desired syllable or word in the window.
Entering with a Japanese QWERTY keyboard
Use the QWERTY keyboard to enter Japanese syllable codes. Suggested syllables appear as you type. To select a syllable, click it.
Entering emoji picture characters
Use the Emoji keyboard. Only available on iPhone models purchased and used in Japan.
Emoticon input
For the Japanese Kana keyboard, press the key
For the Japanese Romaji (Japanese QWERTY) keyboard, tap the 
and then press the key
Using the Chinese Pinyin (simplified or traditional) or Zhuyin (traditional) Chinese keyboard, press the key 
I and then
press a key
Input in Korean
Use dual Korean keyboard to type Hangul letters. To enter double consonants and compound vowels, press and hold a letter, then select the double letter using shift.
Vietnamese input
Long press a character to see the available diacritics, and then slide your finger to select the character you want.
You can also use the following keyboard shortcuts to enter characters with diacritics.
Creating Dictionaries
With some Chinese and Japanese keyboards, you can create a dictionary of word-substitution pairs. When you type a word in a dictionary on a supported keyboard, the associated text is substituted for that word. The dictionary is available for the following keyboards:
Chinese - for a simplified language (pinyin);
Chinese - for traditional language(pinyin);
Chinese - for the traditional language (Zhuyin);
Japanese (romaji);
Japanese (ten characters)
Adding a word to the dictionary.In the Settings app, choose General > Keyboard > Edit Dictionary. Press +, tap the Word field and enter a word, then tap the Yomi, Pinyin, or Zhuyin fields and enter a character.
For each included keyboard, you can enter a separate variant of the substituted text.
Removing a word from the dictionaryClick a word in the Dictionary list, then click Delete Word.
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A new iOS user faces a number of questions about their new mobile device. He has to figure out how to download a book, how to set up the Internet. And one of the many questions how to change language on iphone and change language settings.
How to change language on iPhone?
Let's start with what iOS supports a large number of languages, and sometimes changing the language to another is not as easy as it might seem at first glance.
We go into the settings of the device from the desktop and go to the "Basic" item. If we do not understand anything in the language in which this moment the system is working, a symbol with a gear image will become a hint for us.
After going to the main settings of the device, scroll down the list to the very bottom. Next, we should see 3 blocks of keys on the display, through which we can enter one or another section of the menu. We are interested in the last subparagraph of the 3rd block from the bottom. It should be placed above "iTunes Wi-Fi". A window will open where we select the radio button of blue color top right. You can set the date and time in the same menu.
Note that the firmware of any version of the "apple" system around the world contains all languages supported by the iPhone. In other words, even if we purchased it abroad, we can still change the system language to the one that interests us.
We figured out how to change the language in iPhone, and made sure that the complexity of this task is relatively small. It does not exceed the complexity, if you figure it out. Now let's talk about changing the language settings on the device.
How to change language settings on iPhone?
If we set the settings incorrectly, accidentally selected the wrong language and now we can’t make out anything, we should try the following sequential steps.
On the Home screen, find the gear icon and click on it. A new window will open, where we also select the section with the gear (as already mentioned, this will help us enter the basic settings of the mobile device). Select the next option above the sync with iTunes over Wi-Fi item and click on it (this is "Language and text"). If we use iOS 6 or more early versions system, we will need to find the 6th group of settings, which will have 4 parameters. We choose the 3rd.
In the window that opens, click on the 1st parameter (this is "Language"). Choose desired language from the list and click the blue icon in the upper right (this is the "Done" button). After a few seconds, the language of the smartphone should change.
If we are using Facebook application, we can also change its language settings by changing the language settings to mobile device. To do this, go to the settings through the main desktop, go to "General", and from there - to the "International" settings. Select the "Language" item and set the language that we need.
English or Russian language on iPad - in this article we will talk about how you can change the interface language for your tablet.
Many owners of tablets have repeatedly faced an overwhelming task, which, on their own, was not possible to solve. One of these tasks is changing the interface language. We will try to tell you in detail about this process, which will take you no more than 2 minutes, or even minutes.
How to change the language on the iPad - instructions
Change language on iPad in detail
To set the interface language, we do not need any software everything is done inside operating system, through the settings. Good Apple company took care of the multilingual nature of its platform, and it contains all the main, international languages, including Russian.
First, we need to turn on the iPad. After turning on, on the first screen, you need to find the icon "Settings"(in English "Settings") and click on it.
Changing the language on the iPad - step 1, looking for the Settings icon After clicking, you should see the settings window for your device. In this window, we need to find the item "Basic" (General) and click on it.
Changing the language on the iPad - step 2, go to the main settings Having done all of the above, we will get to the main iPad settings page, which you can see on the right side of your screen. In it, we need to find the item "Language and tex" ("International"), then click on it.
Change the language on the iPad - step 4, look for the menu item "Language and text" This will take you to the language settings of your tablet. Here we are interested in the item "Language" ("Language"), it is the top one in the list.
Change language on iPad - step 4, go to language settings By clicking on it, a dialog box will open in front of you, in which you will have the opportunity to select the language you need.
To install the Russian language, you need to find in the list "Russian" and press the button "Ready" (Done), then wait a few seconds until your iPad reboots, after which your interface will be in Russian.
When you change the language, it will change only in the interface, the programs that you downloaded in English or any other will not change the language.
If you want to put English language, then select from the list English, then press the button "Ready" (Done) and wait about 10 seconds, that's it. 
This completes the installation of the new language, congratulations! As you can see, it turned out to be very simple. For those who did not succeed, I suggest watching the video instruction.
How to change language on iPad - video instruction
If you still have questions or problems, then let's discuss it in the comments to this article. If everything worked out for you, then try
The language on the iPhone is set during initial setting device, by default, wherever it is sold. How to set up Russian language on iPhone (5s, 6, 7, 8, X and SE) and iPad? If you want to change the language used on iPhone, you can do it at any time without resetting the device to factory settings, you just need to go to iOS settings to do this.
Changing the language in iOS only takes a few seconds, you can change it to whatever you want. This can be useful if the language has been accidentally changed and you do not understand what is written on the phone screen, or perhaps because you are learning foreign language and want more immersion.
How to translate iPhone and iPad into Russian?
The region settings determine your unit of measurement (grams, kilograms, Celsius), which Siri uses by default to access certain apps, such as news. If you bought an iPhone in the US, Europe, or China and it has a non-Russian language, here are the steps to switch it:
1. Go to settings from the main screen. (Grey icon on the screen)
2. Click General. (gear)
3. Click "Language and Region". (Over iTunes Wi-Fi and VPN)*
4. Click " iPhone language» at the top of the screen.
Here's how to set up a Chinese iPhone to Russian
5. Select the language you want to use.
6. Click Finish. (Above)
Here's how to set up an iPhone in Russian
7. Click Continue to confirm the language change.
You can change the language on iPhone at any time using this guide, and it's the same for any other iOS device, so if you want to do it on an iPad or iPod touch, the language setting is the same.
* Default language settings built directly into iPhone, for English, Spanish, Russian, German, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and other languages can be downloaded if needed. Select "Other Languages" if you do not find the desired language.
Read also:
How to change system language on iPhone in video format:
How to change language on iPhone 6
How to put Russian on iPhone 6s
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How to Change Your Calendar on iPhone and iPad
1. Launch settings from the main screen.
4. Then "Calendar".
5. And select the one you want: Gregorian, Japanese or Buddhist to make it the default calendar.
6. Click "Language and Region" to save.
If you're wondering, this (how to set your iPhone to Russian) is completely different from adding keyboard support in another language, which is another option for bilingual and multilingual users.
By the way, if you're tweaking your language settings to learn another language or because you're traveling, you might want to check out the pretty awesome Word Lens app that uses iPhone camera for translating languages, it's pretty impressive.
