iOS PHAssetCollection localizedTitle always returning english name

Question

I'm using Apples Photos Framework to load PHAssetCollections into my app. I Always get the english name of the smart collections. For instance I get 'Favorites' instead of 'Favoriter' (Swedish). I thought the localizedTitle property would return the language the Simulator or the iPhone ran. (Running on a iPhone with Swedish language and region).

Has anyone else encountered this? Example code:

NSArray *collectionsFetchResults;
NSMutableArray *localizedTitles = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

PHFetchResult *smartAlbums = [PHAssetCollection       fetchAssetCollectionsWithType:PHAssetCollectionTypeSmartAlbum
                                                                            subtype:PHAssetCollectionSubtypeAlbumRegular options:nil];
PHFetchResult *syncedAlbums = [PHAssetCollection fetchAssetCollectionsWithType:PHAssetCollectionTypeAlbum
                                                                       subtype:PHAssetCollectionSubtypeAlbumSyncedAlbum options:nil];
PHFetchResult *userCollections = [PHCollectionList fetchTopLevelUserCollectionsWithOptions:nil];

// Add each PHFetchResult to the array
collectionsFetchResults = @[smartAlbums, userCollections, syncedAlbums];

for (int i = 0; i < collectionsFetchResults.count; i ++) {

    PHFetchResult *fetchResult = collectionsFetchResults[i];

    for (int x = 0; x < fetchResult.count; x ++) {

        PHCollection *collection = fetchResult[x];
        localizedTitles[x] = collection.localizedTitle;
        NSLog(@"%@", collection.localizedTitle); //<= Always prints english names
    }
}

iphonic · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-10T08:52:04.843

The reason for why collection.localizedTitle doesn't return any other language because your app has only one Localization that is English. This is definitely an Apple Bug, but here is a hack follow these steps.

Create related folder sv.lproj apart from en.lproj folder that you already have.
Add a blank text file in the folder, then add the file into your project.
Performing step 2. you are adding Swedish Language support to your Project.
Run your code, it should return Title in Swedish.

Update

If you want to add more languages easily after adding the blank text, you can add like showed in other answer by selecting Project, and in Localization section add language and choose blank file again, as we don't want to localize other files.

Hope it helps, if doubt ask here.

Cheers.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 08:54

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I think you should just make sure you app support Swedish. Add the language you want to support Swedish for example

answered Mar 09 '17 at 08:54

陈星旺

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perfect solution! – Jagdeep Singh Aug 24 '18 at 17:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '17 at 20:27

Your problem might be that none of your fetches explicitly or implicitly return the built-in Favorites smart album. (Also, it'd help with diagnosis to get your code down to examining the results of only one fetch, so you could figure out which one contains the non-localizing "Favorites".)

If you explicitly want the Favorites collection, search for it with the PHAssetCollectionSubtypeSmartAlbumFavorites collection subtype. (It shouldn't result from a search for regular album or synced album, and I'd be surprised to see it in top level user collections, since that's documented to return only user-created collections.)

If either explicitly requesting the Favorites smart album is returning a non-localizing version, or one of your other fetches is returning the Favorites smart album and it isn't localizing, that's probably an Apple bug — I'd recommend telling them about it.

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 10:16

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ProJect -> Localizations -> "+ Chinese(simplified)"enter image description here

answered Sep 05 '17 at 10:16

xiaoyan.Jia

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Why does this answer the question? – Papershine Sep 05 '17 at 10:24

iOS PHAssetCollection localizedTitle always returning english name

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