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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:32:51+00:00

Is there a way to set a default language to be used when the

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Is there a way to set a default language to be used when the device UI language is not supported by an app?

Example:
My app is localized into English and German:

// en.lproj:
"POWER_TO_THE_PEOPLE_BTN" = "Power";
"POWER_PLUG_BTN" = "Power";

// de.lproj:
"POWER_TO_THE_PEOPLE_BTN"  = "Macht";
"POWER_PLUG_BTN" = "Spannung";

Now, if I run the app on a device with UI language set to Italian the app will use the key strings POWER_TO_THE_PEOPLE_BTN and POWER_PLUG_BTN.

There must be a way to specify a default (fallback) language to be used by the application in such a case.

From the above example it should be clear that using the English string as a key will not work.

The only option I see right now is to use NSLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue instead of NSLocalizedString.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Perhaps this should help? — iPhone: localization / internationalization default strings file

    It should fallback to English by default. I’ve just switched my phone to a language into which my app is not localized, and the text was all in English, as expected.

    Important: as @hyperspasm commented : To expand on/rephrase this, the fallback language is the language which was most recently chosen by the user in the device Settings, that is also represented in the app’s bundle.

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