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  1. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    Hi! About the languages being "listed regardless of where you purchase the device," I know that, but in all the unboxing videos I've seen on YouTube the first languages displayed are the major world languages (as you would expect). In my case, however, this language was displayed right after...
  2. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    I wasn't physically in the States when I bought it, but it was shipped to me here new and sealed, and I unboxed it and powered it up here in Europe. But it is still the US model with the US power plug etc. That's exactly the reason why I was baffled when I saw that upon powering it up. I wonder...
  3. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    Hi! It is a United States A1822 MP2G2LL/A Wi-Fi-only model. No LTE.
  4. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    Hi, thanks for your response! :) About the Date and Time settings, there's nothing you can change when you first power the device on. As soon as I took it out of the box and powered it on, it knew my location. Also, if it used just the time zone to determine location, there would be other...
  5. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    No. But I don't think that answers my question. I think every question deserves an appropriate answer regardless of how meaningless or irrelevant it seems to anybody. Any kind of knowledge should be shared and I think there's nothing bad in wanting to know how an operating system determines its...
  6. Jamesin_x

    How did my iPad know which country it was in before connecting to Wi-Fi?

    Hi, everyone, this is my first post here! I have a US 5th-gen iPad which I powered on for the first time in a non-English-speaking country. What surprised me is that the first "Hello screen" after the English one was in that country's language. After that, on the language selection screen, the...