Change the language your phone uses

Set a phone to show its own menus in the language you think in.

A phone has its own language: the one its menus and buttons are written in. It is a setting you can change.

Changing it moves nothing else. Your photos, messages and apps stay as they are.

Key points

• One setting decides what language every menu is written in
• It leaves your messages, photos and apps untouched

What to remember

• The same row is in the same place to change back.
• The setting changes the phone’s words, not other people’s.

Try this

Find Language in your own settings and read what it says now. Looking changes nothing.

Practice: Change the language your phone uses. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.

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