| > Both Return and Enter are called "Entrée" in French by everyone I know Most likely because everyone you know has learnt learnt that PCs. On PCs, they're the same button. In Apple's ecosystem, they're completely different buttons that do entirely different things. > But as far as I know there has never been a key called "Retour" on French keyboards On Apple keyboards, it has always been referred to in the operating system and documentation as the "touche Retour". Though you're right, there isn't a symbol on the keyboard in Europe in order to sell the same model for the whole region. > Back is also translated as "Retour" on iOS. Which means in some cases (like in the Mail app) you have two different "Retour" buttons, one that inserts a newline while the other one cancels what you're doing. The latter is actually a UI error in most cases. Apple's HIG demands that "< Back" buttons actually have a label to say what you're going back to. But yeah, they have a hard time following their own advice. > I'm the one having to explain why the keyboard says "retour" to iPhone users Now you can explain: it's just Apple terminology dating back to the 1980s. :-) |