Mohamed Zaatar's Blog

I was discovering the new in my Windows 8.1 on Nokia Lumia 1320 device. I was surprised to see that Cortana "Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 personal assistant" is disabled in my country.

For users that dont know what is Cortana, it is looks like Siri in Apple devices.

To enable it, do these steps in this order:

1- Disable Location services. settings --> Location services --> disable
2- Change language, region and keyboard to be English United States. You can access all of these settings in one place. From Settings --> Language . Make sure that all of these settings are based on English United States
3- Restart the phone "As required"
4- Enable Location Services as described in point #1.
4- Open phone and search for "Cortana Settings" and enable it.

Enjoy !!!