Hi, I recently got a new macbook pro and I noticed that I have some
chinese characters for the name of my macbook inputs and outputs (see images below)
Using google translate I can see that they translate to "Speakers" or "Microphone". The same happens to the camera option.
The only language selected during setup was English.
Anyway to fix this?
Thanks
I just got a new 14" MacBook Pro and it was doing the same thing. I also noticed that all the software update release notes were in Chinese. I switched the language to English (Australian), rebooted, then switched it back to US English and rebooted and that fixed it. Seems like somehow these are getting shipped with some kind of Chinese language setting enabled even though something else is selected when you first setup the system.
I just got a new 14" MacBook Pro and it was doing the same thing. I also noticed that all the software update release notes were in Chinese. I switched the language to English (Australian), rebooted, then switched it back to US English and rebooted and that fixed it. Seems like somehow these are getting shipped with some kind of Chinese language setting enabled even though something else is selected when you first setup the system.
Following the suggestion from someone on Reddit, I changed the primary language to something else and then switched back to english and that solved the issue.
It is weird that it happened to the computer in the first place though.
I'll leave this here if anyone runs into this issue again in the future
I recently got a MacBook Air m3 and have the exact same problem, any update on how to fix this?
go to the language settings to make sure its really set to english. make sure youre region is set to an english speaking country and that the language is set to english
Macbook Pro showing chinese characters next to name of sound input/output and camera
