Why is the app in this language?

This page shows what each place said when this page loaded, and which one won. Screenshot it if the language is wrong — it says exactly where it is being lost.

What is on screen nowEnglish

What decided itthe phone’s own language setting — a guess, because nothing else had an answer

What each place said

1. Carried through the sign-inempty

Signing in with Google, Apple or Facebook navigates away and back. The choice rides along in the address, because that is the only channel that survives the trip.

2. Stored in this browserempty

Written the moment you choose a language.

3. The cookieempty

4. The accountnot asked yet

Asked only when this device has nothing to say. A choice made here is never overruled by the account.

What your account remembersasking…

The phone’s own settingunknown

A guess, not a choice. It only decides what you see before you have ever chosen.

Running as an installed appno, a browser tab

If this page shows a language you never chose, forget what is stored here. Your account can then answer again the next time you sign in.

Pressing one of these is a choice, and it is remembered on this device until you forget it above.

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