u/FindingMoi

Google Maps defaulting to Bengali?

First time poster — running into a weird problem.

Google Maps, on desk top only, is defaulting to Bengali as the UI language. Mobile is still fine.

I have not traveled outside of rural Pennsylvania. I do not use a VPN. I didn’t even know it was Bengali, someone else had to point out that it was because I had no clue.

I checked and my account is secure (I use 2FA and no weird logins or unknown sessions). My language is set to English, and I turned off the option to automatically add new languages. The UI for desktop is only in Bengali in Google Maps, it is in English for everything else possible in Google. I checked in safari and chrome and it’s persisting so it doesn’t seem to be related to my browser. Logging out and back in did nothing.

I know I can just use mobile, but for planning purposes I prefer to use the desktop version. It’s a pain in the ass to plan a trip on my phone while I’m booking a hotel on my MacBook.

Anyway— any suggestions at all? I saw others had this issue, but most were in the mobile app and they fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling the app. I saw someone else said their desktop UI was stuck in Arabic, but there wasn’t any resolution in that thread.

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u/FindingMoi — 4 days ago