If your weather notification language is wrong, it’s frustrating because you have to translate it later into a language you understand. There are several reasons as to why this is happening, and it’s probably corrupted data in the Google app. Moreover, the system can sometimes get confused if you have a secondary language set up.
This article will show you how to fix the problem with notifications popping up in the wrong language. None of these workarounds will mess with your personal data or any data you have on your phone. You don’t have to sign out of any accounts. They only clear the temporary app data, and it won’t affect your phone in any way.
Google’s weather notifications are incredibly useful since they deliver important meteorological notifications like cyclone warnings, warn you of potential thunderstorms, and more. It delivers weather notifications using several reputable organizations as a source. It’s not much use if you can’t understand the language.
While Google Developers are probably aware of this issue, we can’t expect a fix anytime soon. Since the scale of this issue isn’t very huge, it’s probably not very high on their priority list. Since there’s no official ETA for a fix, you can try the workarounds below.
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1: Remove any secondary languages from Google Assistant to fix the weather notification language
The ability to add a secondary language is a great feature, but some bugs could cause this issue with weather notifications. To remove the ones you have,
- Open the Google application on your phone. If you don’t have it on your home screen, search for it in your app menu.
- Now, tap on your profile.
- Find the Settings tab and choose the “Google Assistant” option.
- Tap on the “Languages” option, and here you’ll see the secondary language you have for Google Assistant.
- Choose the secondary language that you want to remove. Select “None” for a secondary language instead. This should get rid of the secondary language that’s already there.
- Wait for the next weather notification and check if the issue is gone.
2: Delete the data for Google Play Services
- Open the Settings app and choose the Apps menu.
- Find Google Play Services. If it isn’t in the primary list, you’ll see it in All Apps.
- Find the Storage and Cache option from here, and tap on Manage Space.
- Clear all the data and cache from here, and check if the issue is still there.
3: Delete Google app data
- Open the Settings app and find the option that says Apps.
- Under All Apps, navigate to the Google app.
- Tap on Manage space and clear all data from here.
Additionally, you can try uninstalling the Google app, then clearing the data for Play Services, and reinstalling the Google app. If you want to use another language, you can still re-add a secondary language to the Google app in settings. Following the methods in the article will not just fix the issue with weather notification language, but it’ll also clean up any additional bugs and glitches, startup delays, cache issues, etc., in the app.
