How to Set the Language on Your iPod

You can change the language on your iPod if you want to. Fortunately, you can set, or change, the language your iPod uses without having to know the language that it’s presently set to.

If your iPod classic or iPod nano is speaking in a foreign tongue, don’t panic — you’re not in the wrong country. You might have purchased one that’s set to a foreign language. More likely, someone set it to a different language accidentally (or on purpose, as a practical joke).

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Press the Menu button repeatedly until pressing it doesn’t change the words on the display or until you see the word iPod at the top.

If pressing the Menu button no longer changes the display, you’re at the main menu. With fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation models and iPod nano, the menu displays the word iPod no matter what language is selected — and you know you’re at the main menu.

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Choose the sixth option from the top on sixth-generation iPods and the iPod nano, or the fifth option on fifth-generation iPods, or the fourth option on fourth-generation iPods, iPod mini, and the older iPod nano. Choose the third option from the top on third-, second-, and first-generation models. (In English, this is the Settings option.)

Scroll clockwise until the item is highlighted, and then press the Select button. The Settings menu appears.

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Choose the third option from the bottom of the Settings menu (which, in English, is the Language option).

The Language menu appears.

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Choose the language that you want to use.

English is at the top of the list.

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