diff --git a/dikte/app.py b/dikte/app.py
index abede82..5bf335b 100644
--- a/dikte/app.py
+++ b/dikte/app.py
@@ -1103,18 +1103,57 @@ class Dikte:
 
     def open_settings(self):
         if self.settings_window is None:
-            self.settings_window = SettingsWindow(self.conf, self.meetings)
-            self.settings_window.applied.connect(self._apply_settings)
-            self.settings_window.update_found.connect(self._found_update)
-            self.settings_window.finished.connect(self._settings_closed)
+            self._make_settings()
         self.settings_window.show()
         self.settings_window.raise_()
         self.settings_window.activateWindow()
 
+    def _make_settings(self):
+        """Build the window without showing it, so a caller that knows where
+        it belongs can place it first."""
+        self.settings_window = SettingsWindow(self.conf, self.meetings)
+        self.settings_window.applied.connect(self._apply_settings)
+        self.settings_window.language_changed.connect(self._reopen_settings)
+        self.settings_window.update_found.connect(self._found_update)
+        self.settings_window.finished.connect(self._settings_closed)
+
     def _settings_closed(self, *_):
         # Don't drop the object while its own signal is still being delivered.
         QTimer.singleShot(0, lambda: setattr(self, "settings_window", None))
 
+    def _reopen_settings(self):
+        """Replace the settings window, so a language change reaches it too.
+
+        A save switches the language everywhere strings are made at the moment
+        they are shown: the tray is rebuilt, the indicator and the message box
+        translate as they speak. The settings window is the one place written
+        once, at construction, so the window that took the new language is the
+        one place still showing the old one. A fresh window comes up where the
+        old one stood, on the same tab.
+        """
+        old = self.settings_window
+        if old is None:
+            return
+        tab = old.tabs.currentIndex()
+        geometry = old.geometry()
+        # Replaced rather than merely closed: left connected, _settings_closed
+        # would drop the reference to the new window a moment after it is made.
+        old.finished.disconnect(self._settings_closed)
+        old.close()
+        # No deleteLater: a daemon thread of the old window's may still be
+        # running, and a closure holding self is what keeps the object alive
+        # until the thread is done. Dropping the reference is how the ordinary
+        # close path lets a window go, and it is enough here too.
+        self.settings_window = None
+        self._make_settings()
+        # Placed and turned to the old tab before it is shown, so the new
+        # window does not come up at the default size and jump.
+        self.settings_window.setGeometry(geometry)
+        self.settings_window.tabs.setCurrentIndex(tab)
+        self.settings_window.show()
+        self.settings_window.raise_()
+        self.settings_window.activateWindow()
+
     def _apply_local(self):
         """Pass the local settings on, and hold the models ready if asked to.
 
diff --git a/dikte/i18n.py b/dikte/i18n.py
index f7f4910..d8cb759 100644
--- a/dikte/i18n.py
+++ b/dikte/i18n.py
@@ -162,8 +162,6 @@ TR = {
     "Automatic (system)": "Otomatik (sistem)",
     "Turkish": "Türkçe",
     "English": "İngilizce",
-    "Restart Dikte for the language change to reach every window.":
-        "Dil değişikliğinin her pencereye işlemesi için Dikte'yi yeniden başlat.",
     "Microphone": "Mikrofon",
     "Default microphone": "Varsayılan mikrofon",
     "Speech language": "Konuşma dili",
diff --git a/dikte/settings_ui.py b/dikte/settings_ui.py
index d3a97b7..f166140 100644
--- a/dikte/settings_ui.py
+++ b/dikte/settings_ui.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ from . import filetranscribe
 from . import ggml
 from . import hotkey
 from . import hub
+from . import i18n
 from . import ipc
 from . import meeting
 from . import paste
@@ -515,6 +516,10 @@ class LocalModelBox(QGroupBox):
 
 class SettingsWindow(QDialog):
     applied = pyqtSignal()
+    # A save changed the interface language. Every label below is translated
+    # as the window is built, so the change cannot reach this window: the
+    # owner replaces it with a fresh one instead.
+    language_changed = pyqtSignal()
     # A newer release this window's own check found, so that the tray icon
     # hears about it from here rather than waiting for its own next check.
     update_found = pyqtSignal(object)
@@ -541,6 +546,8 @@ class SettingsWindow(QDialog):
         self._key_fields = {}
         self._testers = {}
         self._shown_provider = ""
+        # What _save compares against to know a rebuild is due.
+        self._built_language = i18n.language()
         # Where "Open the release page" goes: the release itself once a check
         # has named one, and the page that redirects to the newest until then.
         self._release_url = update.RELEASES_PAGE
@@ -639,9 +646,6 @@ class SettingsWindow(QDialog):
         self.ui_language = QComboBox()
         for label, code in UI_LANGUAGES:
             self.ui_language.addItem(t(label), code)
-        self.ui_language.setToolTip(
-            t("Restart Dikte for the language change to reach every window.")
-        )
         form.addRow(t("Interface language"), self.ui_language)
 
         self.mic = QComboBox()
@@ -1794,7 +1798,27 @@ class SettingsWindow(QDialog):
             print(f"dikte: could not trim the history ({exc})")
         self._load_history()  # the trim may just have dropped rows from the list
         self.applied.emit()
+        # conf.save() has switched the language t() speaks, so the message box
+        # already answers in the new one; the labels around it were translated
+        # when the window was built and stay behind. Asking for the rebuild
+        # waits until the box is dismissed, so the window is not pulled out
+        # from under a dialog it is holding up.
         QMessageBox.information(self, t("Dikte Settings"), t("Saved successfully."))
+        if i18n.language() != self._built_language and not self._work_in_flight():
+            self.language_changed.emit()
+
+    def _work_in_flight(self):
+        """A daemon thread of this window's is still running.
+
+        Replacing the window now would let it be collected, taking the C++
+        side of the model boxes down with it, and the thread's next progress
+        report would land on a deleted object. The stale labels stand until a
+        later save finds the window quiet; _built_language keeps the old
+        language, so that save asks for the rebuild by itself.
+        """
+        return (self.transcriber.busy
+                or self.local_whisper._downloading
+                or self.local_llm._downloading)
 
     @staticmethod
     def _select_data(combo, value):
diff --git a/tests/test_ui.py b/tests/test_ui.py
index 867e040..060686a 100644
--- a/tests/test_ui.py
+++ b/tests/test_ui.py
@@ -240,6 +240,21 @@ class Settings(DikteTest):
             with self.subTest(key=key):
                 self.assertEqual(stored[key], value)
 
+    def test_only_a_save_that_changed_the_language_says_so(self):
+        # The owner answers language_changed by replacing the window, so a
+        # save that left the language alone must keep quiet.
+        i18n = settings_ui.i18n
+        self.addCleanup(i18n.set_language, i18n.language())
+        window = self.window(cfg.Config())
+        heard = []
+        window.language_changed.connect(lambda: heard.append(True))
+        window._save()
+        self.assertEqual(heard, [])
+        other = "en" if i18n.language() == "tr" else "tr"
+        window._select_data(window.ui_language, other)
+        window._save()
+        self.assertEqual(heard, [True])
+
     def test_the_model_box_on_screen_belongs_to_whoever_cleans_up(self):
         """An OpenRouter id and a Claude alias are not the same field."""
         window = self.window(cfg.Config())