Getting current device language in iOS?

Question

I\'d like to show the current language that the device UI is using. What code would I use?

I want this as an NSString in fully spelled out format. (Not

Answer 1

Solution for iOS 9:

NSString *language = [[NSLocale preferredLanguages] objectAtIndex:0];

language = "en-US"

NSDictionary *languageDic = [NSLocale componentsFromLocaleIdentifier:language];

languageDic will have the needed components

NSString *countryCode = [languageDic objectForKey:@"kCFLocaleCountryCodeKey"];

countryCode = "US"

NSString *languageCode = [languageDic objectForKey:@"kCFLocaleLanguageCodeKey"];

languageCode = "en"

Answer 2

iOS13, Swift 5+, WWDC2019 https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/403/

Users can select the preferred language of an app independently from the OS language.

You can use these:

    // Returns a list of the user's preferred languages.
    // Maybe more than (or none of) your app supports!
    Locale.preferredLanguages

    // a subset of this bundle's localizations, re-ordered into the preferred order
    // for this process's current execution environment; the main bundle's preferred localizations
    // indicate the language (of text) the user is most likely seeing in the UI
    Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations



    // The current running app language
    Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations.first

    // list of language names this bundle appears to be localized to
    Bundle.main.localizations

Answer 3

-(NSString *)returnPreferredLanguage { //as written text

NSUserDefaults * defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSArray *preferredLanguages = [defaults objectForKey:@"AppleLanguages"];
NSString *preferredLanguageCode = [preferredLanguages objectAtIndex:0]; //preferred device language code
NSLocale *enLocale = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en"]; //language name will be in English (or whatever)
NSString *languageName = [enLocale displayNameForKey:NSLocaleIdentifier value:preferredLanguageCode]; //name of language, eg. "French"
return languageName;

}

Answer 4

For Swift 3.0 below code can be used to answer your question:

 let language = Bundle.main.preferredLocalizations.first! as NSString

Answer 5

Simple Swift 3 function:

  @discardableResult
  func getLanguageISO() -> String {
    let locale = Locale.current
    guard let languageCode = locale.languageCode,
          let regionCode = locale.regionCode else {
        return "de_DE"
    }
    return languageCode + "_" + regionCode
  }

Answer 6

For Swift 3:

NSLocale.preferredLanguages[0] as String