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Asked: 2026-05-18T12:24:03+00:00

We’ve localized our app into several languages, and everything shows up properly in our

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We’ve localized our app into several languages, and everything shows up properly in our Ad Hoc builds.

We built and released an App Store version that came out today, but none of our international users see the localized strings.

More info:

  1. In iTunes Connect, under Binary Details, the languages show as:
    Localizations : ( “de”, “en”, “ja”, “pt” )
  2. The Settings.app strings show up as translated, but none of the strings inside the app itself show up in anything other than English
  3. We’ve tried deleting and re-downloading the app from the store on multiple phones, to no avail
  4. We do not have any localizations in iTunes Connect itself (in terms of descriptions, etc).
  5. Other apps we try are in the correct language

We’re wondering if #4 is the problem—do we need to have localizations created inside iTunes Connect for our App Store app to show up as properly localized as well?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It sounds like some sort of build problem with your Distribution build. My guess is that you have a leftover Localizable.strings file in the root of your project (from pre-localization), perhaps only in your Distribution build. If you have this, NSLocalizedString will prefer it to any actually localized languages (which is sort of counterintuitive).

    You can check by cracking the .app bundle you submitted and looking in that first level of the hierarchy for this file.

    I’ve seen this before hanging around from pre-localization due to accidental non-clean builds.

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