# User disables translations, but they keep coming back
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** content-localization
**Created:** [7 april 2026 om 08:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096 "2026-04-07T08:22:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@MiikkaLaitila](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiikkaLaitila)
#### Post date: [7 april 2026 om 08:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096/1 "2026-04-07T08:22:48Z")
Hi,
it seems that for some of our [forum.inderes.com](http://forum.inderes.com) users the translation disabling doesn’t stay off forever. Some users prefer to always see the original message instead of translation, but they’re getting irritated as they start seeing translations again after a few weeks.
Isn’t it that if you click 🈯 the button to disable translations, it should remember your setting as logged-in user? And same goes for anonymous users within the same session?
User feedback:
> Every now and then, completely unprompted, it switches the language to English on some device. I use the same account on Windows, macOS, and Android/Chrome without any issues. And this forum manages to lose its language settings every couple of weeks and starts force-translating.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [7 april 2026 om 10:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096/2 "2026-04-07T10:38:26Z")
Currently the functionality is that the setting is saved in local storage (in device) for 30 days.
Though I think it’s been more than a few times that we’ve been asked to persist this in user settings itself which would work across devices.
I’ve got an update here which should allow us to do that:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/39128](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/39128)
I’ll update here again when it’s merged.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [21 april 2026 om 03:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096/3 "2026-04-21T03:20:47Z")
Hey @MiikkaLaitila we should be good here.
This setting now persists in the user’s preferences page at e.g. [https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface](https://meta.discourse.org/my/preferences/interface)
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### Author:  [@MiikkaLaitila](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MiikkaLaitila)
#### Post date: [21 april 2026 om 05:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096/4 "2026-04-21T05:46:17Z")
Perfect, thanks a lot @nat for the quick fix 🙏
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [21 mei 2026 om 05:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-disables-translations-but-they-keep-coming-back/400096/5 "2026-05-21T05:47:14Z")
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