Wrong language for playlists and store in Apple Music

I live and work in China, but I am not Chinese. The apple music app used to have everything in English. I've changed all the settings on my Mac to confirm to use English but now my playlists are all in Chinese. I have a subscription from Mainland China, but this should not affect language choice, as it hadn't for the last 4 years of my subscriptions.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.2

Posted on Feb 20, 2025 07:26 PM

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Feb 20, 2025 07:46 PM in response to nicolasningbo

Is the app’s language set to your preferred language?

I found these steps from another discussion:

1. Ensure you have your desired language set in appleid.apple.com

2. Set your iPhone to the desired language

3. Log out of AppStore and iTunes: iPhone settings > iTunes & App Store > tap your apple ID at the top and tap sign out

4. Force close Music app

5. Sign it back

6. Open Music app

make sure you have the latest software update.

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