Pages iPad Spell check problems

Recently the spell check in my pages became stuck in another language. It highlights most of the words as misspelled and all the suggestions are French words. The system language I have is English and it works correctly in other programs. I only have ‘keyboard’ in English and emoji..nothing else. How can I set my pages to spell check in English?

iPad Air, iPadOS 16

Posted on Nov 15, 2022 02:08 PM

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family90 Author

Level 1

4 points

Nov 15, 2022 05:06 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Good suggestion however, I unchecked all dictionaries except English and it still didn’t help. Any other ideas?

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

121,524 points

Nov 15, 2022 03:24 PM in response to family90

make sure also that French is not checked in your settings for Dictionary

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