How to change your Google Play country

If yous motion to a new country, you may want to change your Google Play country. Your Google Play country determines what content you encounter in the shop. The apps, games and other content in the Shop can vary by country.

  • Yous can merely modify your Play state once per yr. If you alter your country, you won't exist able to alter it back for i twelvemonth.
    • When you lot change your land, you won't be able to use your Google Play balance that you lot take in your old country in your new country.
    • You may lose access to some books, movies, Television receiver shows, games and apps.
  • To modify your land, y'all need to ready up a new country in Google Play.
    • To ready a new state, you must be in that country and have a payment method from the new land.

Change your Google Play state

Switch betwixt existing country profiles

Important:You can change your Play country once per yr. If you change your land, you'll need to expect a year to change it again.

  1. Open up the Google Play Store app Google Play.
  2. At the top right, tap the profile icon.
  3. TapSettings and then General and then Business relationship preferences and then Land and profiles.
  4. To alter countries, tap the name of the i that you want to modify to.

Tip: Your profile tin have up to 48 hours to update.

I can't see the pick to add a country

You may non encounter this option if:

  • You've changed your country within the concluding year.
  • You aren't currently in a new country. This is based on your IP address.
  • You're function of a Google Play Family Library.

Ready issues when you update your Google Play land

If you can't change your Google Play country or don't see the option to, endeavor the following:

Clear your enshroud and data

Make sure that your app is updated

Delete a payments profile

What happens when you change countries

What happens to your Google Play balance when you lot change countries

Of import: You can change your Play land in one case per yr. If yous alter your state, you'll demand to look a year to change it again.

Your Google Play balance is linked to your Google Play state. If you lot accept Google Play residuum and change countries, yous won't be able to use that residue in your new country.

Your residual will still exist linked to your old land. If you lot modify back to your erstwhile state, you will exist able to use it once more.

Google Play Pass

Your Google Play Pass subscription will continue to auto-renew.

If Play Pass is available in your new country: your access will remain the same.

If Play Pass isn't available: you'll yet have access to apps installed on your device, but you won't be able to browse or install boosted Play Pass apps. Learn how to manage your Google Play Pass subscription.

Tip:Some apps won't be bachelor in certain countries.

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