Bandnames are shown in the japanese Alphabet

[Teamiceberg]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

iPhone 13

Operating System

iOS 17.3

My Question or Issue

Weird glitch that I have been experiencing for month already. One update fixes it, the next Update brings it back:

Band names (not the Text in the App itself though) are Shown in the japanese Alphabet, so The Band Muse would be shown as ミュース, FKA Twigs becomes FKA ツイックand so on.

My iPhone is German, System Language is German, App Store is German…

I do have the Japanese and the Chinese Keyboard installed though.

So I checked App Language AND iPhone Language, both are set to German. Switched to English, Japanese, back to German - Nothing helps. The App will change Language as selected, artist names will still appear in the Japanese Alphabet.

Anyone ever experienced something like this?

[richyi]

wrong language for interpreters

Chinese characters for various songs and artists.
App reinstalled and language reset, no improvement
Ios
Germany
Premium User
Iphone 15

[Screw90]

Hey everyone! I removed the japanese keyboard from my iPhone-‚ settings. Funny, I googled a japanese sentence and seno it to a friend and my iPhone just added Japan as a preferred region in my settings. Well… 😉

In the end I reinstalled the app and that fixed it.

@Teamiceberg: guck mal in deinen iPhone-Einstellungen bei „Sprache und Region“. Ist sort vllt. „Japanisch“ eingestellt? Lösch das, bei mir wurden dann nur noch die Künstler auf Japanisch angezeigt, deren Songs ich während der „Japanphase“ meines iPhones in meine Bibliothek hinzugefügt hab.

[paulohtobias]

Plan

Premium

Country

Brazil

Device

(iPhone 14 Pro)

Operating System

(iOS 18.3.2)

I've had the same problem, except both my iPhone and Spotify were in portuguese. I tried all methods here and more (changing the language of the app, changing iPhone language priorities (my phone had 1-portuguese, 2-japanese, 3-english), removing the japanese keyboard, updating the app) and nothing worked (I was changing the app language back and forth every time I tried something new to see if it would have any effect and it didn't.

The way I got it to work was by removing keyboard and language support for japanese (I'm not sure if this is necessary but I did it because I was trying the other methods), uninstalled the app, restarted my phone and installed it again. After installing and confirming that it was fixed, I added the japanese keyboard again and spotify still looks fine for me.

I use spotify on an android phone, 2 computers and on my TV and only the iPhone app had this glitch

[Billy-J]

Hey @richyi, thanks for reaching out to the Community!

Can you let me know where you’re seeing incorrect language exactly? You can ceen attach a screenshot of what you’re seeing - make sure to hide sensitive info when posting to the Community. You’re able to change your language settings based on your device following these steps.

Keep me posted!

[Danae_alvarezc]

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

Artist name appears in japanese.. haw can i change it to occidental language?? 

[Maxim]

Hey @Danae_alvarezc,

Thanks for reaching out.

Can you please provide a link to the artist? 🙂

[zzzzzzz77]

Free

Free/Premium

Country

Italy

Device

iphone X

Operating System

iOS

My Question or Issue

Some artist names are written in Japanese, I tried to change the language setting to Italian and English but nothing changed, I also tried to uninstall and reinstall the app but again nothing 

The artists are:

And a lot more

[hijacee]

Device: iPhone 13 mini

OS: iOS 18.4.1

Spotify-Version: 9.0.40.506

I have the same issue. Some, not all, artists are displayed in Japanese characters. Seems to affect mostly internationally known artists. This affects only the display of the artists name. Search for the Name in Latin characters works and returns the right artists, but the results are displayed in Japanese characters. 
My system settings are German. Keyboard languages are English and German only. 

I would appreciate a quick solution. 

 

[Peter115]

The artists in manny of the songs are shown in Japanese, although they were in English before. For example “Hans Zimmer” is now written in Japanese in every of his songs. The song title is displayed correctly, just the artist is in Japanese.

Can someone help me with this?

Also when playing on my Denon AVR Spotify randomly skips to the next song, so sometimes I just get to hear a few seconds, sometimes half a song, but mostly not a whole song…

[Doddu]

Bonjour, j’ai effectué ce que vous avez dit mais impossible les noms d’artistes sont toujours en japonais. Une autre idée ? 

[MihailY]

Hey folks,

Thanks for your reports again.

Can you please go to Settings > Apps > Spotify > Language and then send us a screenshot of what you see there? It’d also be handy if you could go to Settings > General > Language & Region and send a screenshot of that too.

Cheers,

[Teamiceberg]

Hi @MihailY,

Your wish be my command 😉

[eyosh]

Same pb here. My last name is japanese, I thought that might be why (although far-streched, i admit), but still no answer…

[JörgLaber]

1. Tried it without solving the problem 😣

[JörgLaber]

Version 9.0.40.506 - problem could not be solved

[hijacee]

In my case MihailY pointed in the right direction. In the language settings of iOS was Japanese set as additional language. Not as default, that was still German. I still don’t know how that happened - I did not set up the second/alternative language myself as I don’t speak Japanese. 

After deleting Japanese in the System settings, it took a while but now it is displaying the artists in Latin Characters again. 🙂

[Teamiceberg]

I think it‘s enough to open some websites that have japanese letters.

i have Thai as a preferred language even though I just been there for vacation.

For me it also suddenly works again but I think Spotify did some changes on their side, because I didn‘t do anything.

Deleting japanese as a preferred language would also not have been an option in my case because japanese is indeed a preferred language on my phone.

[tytat]

Really annoying when I try to use the Japanese name to search the song