It's location-based, right? (Hopefully!) Try: 2 pounds.

Heh, that gives “2.49 US dollars,” before the expected 907.18 grams.

Try with 2 lb. Pound is for money. Libra pondo is for weight.

It now says 2.50 US dollars. The exchange rate updates in real time?

On mine you can keep scrolling to the right and I see “0.99 lbs”.

If you're outside the US, you can select 0.99 lbs above and see what it is in metrics units. Weirdly though, 99 lbs doesn't offer a conversion.

I get 44 906 g | 44.91 kg using the text in your reply, maybe it's a contextual thing?

Worked perfectly for me.

See Settings -> General -> Language & Region

Conversions will be into your preferred units set there.

Not really, or it has some pretty weird ideas about preferred units in my region. When trying to get a conversion for 1 cup, it tells me it's 0.5 pints. My region is Finland, language is Finnish, and roughly no-one understands those units.

Weird. I’m in Canada and I see the following when I select “1 cup”:

0.24 L | 23.66 cL | 236.59 mL | 236.59 cm^3 | 0.0625 gal | 0.5 pt | 0.25 qt | 8 fl oz | 16 tbsp | 48 tsp | 0.00836 ft^3 | 14.44 in^3

My “measurement system” under language and region in settings is set to “Metric”. Perhaps yours is incorrectly set to “UK”?

I’m also running iOS 16.5 beta, if it helps.

Similarly I am on iOS 16.2 and have measurement system set to metric, my region to Norway, and my main preferred language to English.

I see the following: 0,24 l | 23,66 cl | 236,59 ml | 236,59 cm^3

It’s using comma as decimal because the number format is set as 1 234 567,89 as is default for region Norway.

It’s weird that mine shows the symbol for litres as a lowercase L and not as an uppercase L though.

Both of 'l' and 'L' are acceptable as unit abbreviations for litre:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_th...

The metric conversions are idiotic. Converting "1 cup" to 5 decimal places is misleading, and offering alternatives in l / cl / ml (with a capital ell??) is useless. The addition of cm^3 is the cherry on top :)

This was clearly designed by someone who has never used the metric system.

A human would convert it to "1/4 liter" or "250ml".

Edit: Actually, a human would convert "1 cup of flour" into "150g flour", since most local recipes use weight instead of volume for solids. Which shows that good localisation is a lot more than just literal translation + unit conversion.

Funny, for me the units shown are 0,24l and 23,66cl. (Also from Finland). OS language english, but locale Finland.