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It always seems to be the large tech companies that think they are so clever tying the language to your IP location rather than your language preferences. Goog
by rglynn 2y ago
It always seems to be the large tech companies that think they are so clever tying the language to your IP location rather than your language preferences.
Google, Spotify, PayPal and others all seem convinced, no matter what I do, that because my IP address is in Japan that I should be shown Japanese language.
- lores 2y agoI'd like to use kilometres instead of miles in Google Maps, but I live in the UK, so it's Not Allowed. Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- fredoralive 2y agoOn the web you can for directions at least, select the "Options" button next to the "Leave Now" time selection, it has a distance units to switch between Automatic / Miles / km. To switch the little scale in the bottom right, just click it. On the iOS app it's "User"->Settings->Distance Units (I assume Android is similar). (And if you want to adjust Apple Maps in metric, it is a bit more cryptic, it follows the general system settings app, in General->Language & Region->Measurement System, with a choice of Metric / US / UK).
- lores 2y agoWell, slap my ass 10 times and call me Charles Maurice. When was that introduced?
- djbusby 2y agoCharles, it's been there for a decade or more.
- karlmedley 2y agoI find it so frustrating when software and web pages don’t default to using the locale info I’ve set in my system settings. Add an app-specific option if you must, but I’d love if these things just worked by default.