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Enable Cortana Outside the USA on Microsoft Lumia 535

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Hello, and welcome to VisiHow. In this tutorial, we will show you how to enable Cortana outside the USA while using a Microsoft Lumia 535. In order to enable Cortana, we are going to need to change the phone's region settings to US.

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Turn on your phone by pressing the power button on the right side of your phone
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Swipe the lock screen up to unlock your phone
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Swipe down from the top of the home screen
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This will open notifications.
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Tap ALL SETTINGS near the top of your phone, on the right side
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This will take you to your general settings.

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Scroll down and tap on region to open region settings
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Tap the Country/Region field
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Scroll down and tap United States
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Tap restart phone to allow the change in settings to take effect
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Once the phone has restarted, repeat steps 3 and 4 to return to settings
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Scroll down and tap language
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If you do not have English (United States) set as your current language, you will need to change your current language
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Tap add languages
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Scroll down and tap English (United States) and tap the checkmark icon at the bottom of your screen to accept the change
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Return to your home screen
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Swipe from right to left to open your app menu
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Open Cortana
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Cortana should now be enabled
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This concludes our tutorial on how to enable Cortana outside the USA while using a Microsoft Lumia 535
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