diff --git a/doc/changes/latest.inc b/doc/changes/latest.inc
index 7f31196711d..0649a9866aa 100644
--- a/doc/changes/latest.inc
+++ b/doc/changes/latest.inc
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ Changelog
 Bug
 ~~~
 
+- Fix bug in :class:`~mne.preprocessing.ICA` where requesting extended infomax via ``fit_params={'extended': True}`` was overridden, by `Daniel McCloy`_.
+
 - Fix TAL channel parsing (annotations) for EDF-D files by `Clemens Brunner`_
 
 - Fix handling of repeated events in :class:`mne.Epochs` by `Fahimeh Mamashli`_ and `Alex Gramfort`_
diff --git a/mne/preprocessing/ica.py b/mne/preprocessing/ica.py
index 1331d1c7366..ed7ba721bd9 100644
--- a/mne/preprocessing/ica.py
+++ b/mne/preprocessing/ica.py
@@ -357,12 +357,10 @@ def __init__(self, n_components=None, max_pca_components=None,
             fit_params.update({k: v for k, v in update.items() if k
                                not in fit_params})
         elif method == 'infomax':
-            fit_params.update({'extended': False})
-        elif method == 'extended-infomax':
-            fit_params.update({'extended': True})
-            method = 'infomax'
-        if 'max_iter' not in fit_params:
-            fit_params['max_iter'] = max_iter
+            # extended=True is default in underlying function, but we want
+            # default False here unless user specified True:
+            fit_params.setdefault('extended', False)
+        fit_params.setdefault('max_iter', max_iter)
         self.max_iter = max_iter
         self.fit_params = fit_params