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Change Language

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Hi, I'd like to change the language of my bunq app independently of my device's language. Is there a way to do this? If not, I wish this will be implemented, because my device's language is English but I'd like to have my bunqing in my native language

johannes

Felix Hey Felix! Currently this isn't possible, the app is using your phone's language.

DaniWorldwide

Johannes 🇦🇺 Ik snap nooit hoe developers nooit voordehands bedenken dat men de taal zou moeten kunnen wijzigen in de instellingen. Is dat dan zo moeilijk te implementeren?

Dave-Navy-Panda

Johannes 🇦🇺 Changed my phone language from English to Dutch. App language is still English. Even after i rebooted the device (Huawei P30).

Sonia-Indigo-Puma

Johannes 🇦🇺 My phone linguage is portugueses and the APP is in english

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Neither the less, thanks for your fast reply

Sander

Dani it is not like it hasn't been thought of. bunq tries to keep the app as simple as possible, while fitting the majority of the clients. The majority of the clients apparently have their phone configured to the language that they want to use the app in. 🙂

DaniWorldwide

Sander Het toevoegen van een optie waarin men de taal kan muteren zou volgens mijzelf in geen enkel opzicht iets kunnen compliceren.

Vadim-Violet-Penguin

Sander But this is not what's happening. When my phone is set to Russian, the bunq app is not in Russian, it's in a horrible auto-translated pseudolanguage that bears only a passing resemblance to Russian

Andreas

Dani This is actually not really supported by iOS, so that would require implementing a hack

DaniWorldwide

Andreas☀️ Not true, in basically every app ever you have the option to change the language. Take Instagram for example.

Andreas

Dani They implemented that hack probably. On iOS, user languages for system frameworks are stored in an Apple-only "UserDefaults" setting, which can be overriden, but has complications such as the app needing a hard reboot, not working with all network errors, etc.

DaniWorldwide

Andreas☀️ Welp, I don’t think I multi billion company owned by Facebook is really using a “hack” to do that. Thanks for your input though.

Andreas

Dani You would be surprised how much that happens at big companies :) I checked, and instagram is definitely using that hack: they even crash the app on purpose when changing the language, to work around some of the issues with the hack. (Apple doesn't really allow this, but big companies usually get a pass from Apple on this kind of stuff)

Roeshimi

Dani "Hack" as in: using Apple Enterprise Certificates to be able to make people install tracking software and track all the data they enter and every single move they make on the device? No I'm also sure, Facebook would never do that.

DaniWorldwide

Andreas☀️ Maar een ieder kan toch ook simpelweg switchen van store zonder de taal te veranderen? Zo kun je ook apps downloaden in een andere taal. Zou dan toch ook geblokkeerd moeten zijn?

Andreas

Dani The App Store is an Apple app. Apple's own app can do things that aren't allowed/possible for 3rd party apps.

DaniWorldwide

Roeshimi HAHAHAHAHHH

WJanson

Good news, as of iOS 13 you can pick the default language per app! iOS user just have to be patient. 😄

This will be possible from the system settings app. 👍

johannes

W. Janson-Korhorn Sounds great, now it would be cool if bunq could implement it for Android, as we don't have the option there (yet) :/

JohnDo

W. Janson-Korhorn patient? Not one of my strong points ;)

But this feature definitely comes in handy! For example, my phone is set to English but sometimes want to switch quickly to Dutch to make a screenshot with Duch text (of a bunq 🌈 screen for example) 👍

So, let's bring it on ;)

Anastasija-Golden-Shark

my phone in russian language, i want to bunq in English, because I do not speak in germanish. so, da hell. i choose this bank just because you have sign up and app in English, but...nu da hell. why i can not choose language

Sander

Hi Anastasija!

The bunq app follows your phone’s language where possible. If the language of your phone is not supported then the default fallback is English. Maybe you can check with the Support chat 💬 why your interface is shown in German? 🙂