a very weird issue with google-maps on IOS

By roman, 12 July, 2022

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello everyone hope you are well. I wanted to change my google map's language to UK English so have changed the language from our universal settings; however, I am not able to change the voice to a British voice even though I have restarted my phone. The navigation still speaks in an American voice. can somebody help? Thanks.

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By Nikos on Sunday, July 24, 2022 - 15:52

Hello.
I was having the same issue when I wanted google maps to speak in Greek, but my phone's language was set to UK English.
When I changed the preferred language of google maps to Greek, I didn't have voice guidance at all.

Unfortunately I had to do the following.
Uninstall google maps.
Change temporarily my phone's language to Greek from Settings, general, language and region.
Redownload google maps from the app store.
Change back my phone's language to UK English.
Finally I had to go to settings, find the google maps option and change the preferred language of google maps to Greek.
Now it works as I wish, but I understand that it requires many steps.

In my opinion, from the moment we change the preferred language of google maps, it should be able to download the appropriate voice files on its own.
Nikos