Is it just my iPhone, or has there been a change to the date format, where there is an “M-number” instead of the name of the month displayed??
I have the phone set to U.S. region, English. I can’t seem to find anywhere that I can de-select this format. Can anyone help me?
thanks.
iPhone X
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My phone is set to U.S. English, so that’s not it as far as I can tell. I may try flipping it to something else then flipping it back just to see if that resets it correctly. What bothers me a bit is that it then says “this will restart your phone”, which sounds like more than one thing is being reset. Which I don’t like because I don’t know WHICH things are being reset…
Angiepants13, I finally hit upon the solution for me. One thing I did was temporarily turn off “Set Automatically” under the Date and Time setting. (That step may be unnecessary, but I’m telling you everything I did.) While that was off, I looked at the “Language & Region” setting. I definitely had English set, but I also had Japanese katakana set for when we were in Japan. The problem was THE ORDER of the two languages. The Japanese was above English, making it the first-preferred language, in order, for the phone. I scrolled the three horizontal lines up to switch their positions, and — voila! The phone took a few seconds to readjust, but now all is well!!! I put the Time and Date setting back to Automatic, and the problem was fixed, finally!!
I hope this helps you!!
And it makes some sense now, because to a Japanese person the Month Names in the year (January, February…) probably wouldn’t mean anything to them, but “Month 1”, “Month 2”, etc., would makes sense to them.
Please let me know either way if this fixes the issue for you or not.
Jim
Did we find an answer to this? I tried all of the below and they don’t apply to me. I only have English and no other languages are selected. I have done a forced restart and everything else and it still shows M05 etc. it’s so ugly and confusing. Please help!
Thanks so much for this. Not sure how it changed, but it did along with my maps which was showing directions in French. So I did what you said and changed it from English US to English Canada and then switched back. When I switched back, there was an option of English US and Corsu. I deleted the Corsu and now everything is back to English format, both calendar and Maps. Thanks so much for your help.
I found it!! Go under language and region. For some reason Corsu was above English for my preferred language and I flipped them and it worked!!
As long as it is volume up/volume down/hold side button until you see the Apple logo then let go of the button.
I was having this issue this weekend and this worked for me. But I never had it set as anything else. I switched from English US to English Canada and back and it worked! Thanks!
Here are two screenshots that illustrate what I’m talking about:
I hope that helps.
So I just flipped the Region to Canada, then back to United States. This is what it gave me (note the month format example — no change from before):
My phone just started doing the same thing. Force restarting the phone did not help.
This happened to me too along with Google sheets etc showing up in French and I can’t figure out either. Please help
Have you tried a forced restart of your iPhone?
Nope. Not yet. Exactly which procedure do I use for an iPhone X ?? Is it sound button-sound button-power button?
Forced restart corrected the calendar, but some places still have the numerical months. Weird. I’ll live with it until there’s a solution or explanation.
Thanks for that though! Much better.
M01, M02, etc. instead of month names
