Is YouTube translating video titles into your native language or another language, making it difficult for you to understand the context of the video and find the content you’re looking for? This usually happens when you’ve selected the wrong location or language in YouTube settings, your Google Account, or your device. Browsing YouTube while using a VPN can also cause problems.
Here, we’ll show you how to stop YouTube from translating video titles and descriptions if you’re frustrated with that too.
First apply some initial checks on YouTube
Refresh the YouTube webpage on the browser (or the video window on the mobile app) to see the translated video title appear.
To fix temporary browser issues, close all tabs on your browser and reopen YouTube. Android and iOS users should restart the app.
1. Check for video-specific issues
The content creator may have used their native language for the video title and targeted their local audience only. So, make sure that the problem is not limited to a single video or videos from a specific YouTube channel.
To rule this out, watch other videos from different channels and see if they appear in the language you usually watch YouTube videos in. If they are, then it’s not a problem with YouTube.
Although you can manually translate the title of the video into your language, this is useless as the video will most likely be in the same language. Therefore, you should search for other videos to find similar content.
Conversely, if all the videos are in a different language than the one you usually watch, then you should start implementing the rest of the fixes.
2. Change Language on YouTube
Have you recently changed the language in YouTube settings? This may explain why YouTube is translating video titles. Therefore, you have to change it back. To change the language back to your preferred language in YouTube settings, follow these steps.
Those using Android and iOS devices can skip this step, as YouTube does not provide an option to change the YouTube language on the mobile app. Instead, it depends on the language selected on the user’s device.
3. Change location on YouTube
Have you recently changed the location in YouTube settings and experienced this issue? If so, we recommend that you undo the change. Selecting the appropriate niche on YouTube is as important as selecting the right language. Therefore, changing your location to a country that speaks your target language may solve the problem.
4. Change the language in your browser
Although less likely, selecting the wrong language for your browser’s user interface may cause YouTube to translate video titles. Thus, you should make sure that you have the correct language set in your browser.
For instructions on checking or changing the language in Chrome, visit the official Google Help Center documentation. Similarly, you can follow the official guidelines from Microsoft Support or Mozilla Support to change the language in Edge or Firefox.
If you are using any other browser, you can change the language by following the official guidelines provided by its developer. However, if your browser is already set to the correct language or if changing it doesn’t matter, skip to the next step.
5. Change the language on your mobile device
For Windows and macOS devices, changing your browser’s language will be sufficient, but for Android and iOS, you’ll also need to change your device’s OS language because YouTube uses your device’s language settings.
Once you change your device’s language, YouTube should start fetching the correct language and eventually stop translating the titles. However, if that doesn’t work, move on to the next fix.
6. Change the language of your Google Account
Setting the wrong language in your Google Account can also cause errors in the UI of Google products where you’re logged in using the same account. As a result, you need to make sure that the wrong language is not selected in your Google account.
Changing the language of a Google Account is nearly identical for desktop, Android, and iOS devices, provided you use Chrome.
After you’ve changed your preferred language, click the Remove icon next to any other languages added to your Google Account to remove them. Also, disable the toggle next to Add languages automatically.
If none of these solutions work and YouTube continues to translate YouTube titles, even titles with content in your primary language, you can use the translation tool to translate titles until the problem is resolved. can do.