Google Chrome can offer to translate pages in other languages. Turning off its built-in Google Translate control stops page-translation offers on desktop.
The same Languages setting is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It controls page translation without changing Chrome's display language or your preferred-language list.
A Google Translate extension and translated Google Search results have separate controls. Turning off Chrome's built-in translation does not uninstall an extension or guarantee that every Translate icon disappears from the address bar.
Steps to turn off Google Translate in Google Chrome:
- Open chrome://settings/languages in Google Chrome's address bar.
- Scroll to the Google Translate section.
- Turn off Use Google Translate.
The switch is gray when off, and the translation-language options disappear. An already-off switch needs no change.
- Open a page in a language outside your Preferred languages list to check that Chrome no longer offers to translate it.
The page should stay in its original language without a translation pop-up, as with this French page in an English-language Chrome profile. A translation offer on a newly loaded page means the setting has not taken effect.