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Google Announces Google Maps Update With Language Improvements

Google Maps is used by millions of people every day, pretty much all over the world, and Google knows how important it is to offer an experience that’s tailored to each and every one of us.
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Needless to say, India is one of Google’s largest markets, and the Mountain View-based search giant has continuously been looking into ways to polish its products even further in this market.

As a result, Google announced at its L10n event this year that it’s adding support for more Indian languages in its products while also making it easier for users to switch from one dialect to another in Google Maps.

In Google search, for example, Google has added Tamil, Telugu, Bangla, and Marathi, so Indian users can now get results online in a more native way.

As far as Google Maps is concerned, there’s a new App language entry in the settings screen, making it impossible to change the entire interface to one of the supported Indian dialects.

In other words, it no longer matters if your phone is in English or another language; you can just configure Google Maps independently from the system settings.

Rather than guessing preferences, we launched the ability to easily change the language of Google Assistant and Discover to be different from the phone language. Today in India, more than 50 percent of the content viewed on Google Discover is in Indian languages. A third of Google Assistant users in India are using it in an Indian language, and since the launch of Assistant language picker, queries in Indian languages have doubled,” Google says.

If you, too, want to change the language in Google Maps, just head over to Settings and look for App language. You should now be able to switch to a dialect that makes more sense to you, with search, directions, and navigation then displayed in the chosen language.
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