How to change your Google Play country

If you move to a new land you may want to alter your Google Play country. Your Google Play country determines what content you see in the store. The apps, games, and other content in the Store tin vary past country.

  • Y'all must wait 12 months afterward initially creating a payments profile before you can change your Play country. Yous tin merely modify your Play country once per twelvemonth. If you modify your country, you won't exist able to alter it back for one year.
    • When yous change your country, y'all won't be able to apply your Google Play residue that you lot have in your old state in your new state.
    • You may lose access to some books, movies, TV shows, games, and apps.
  • To change your state, you need to prepare a new country in Google Play.
    • To set up a new country, you lot must be in that land and have a payment method from the new country.

Change your Google Play land

Switch between existing country profiles

Important:You must wait 12 months subsequently initially creating a payments profile before you can change your Play country. Yous can change your Play Country one time per yr. If you change your country, you'll need to wait a year to alter it again.

  1. Open up the Google Play Store app Google Play.
  2. At the summit correct, tap the profile icon.
  3. TapSettings and then General and then Account preferences and then Country and profiles.
  4. To change countries, tap the proper noun of the one you want to modify to.

Tip: Your contour can take up to 48 hours to update.

I don't come across the option to add together a country

You may not see this option if:

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

Fix problems when you update your Google Play country

If y'all tin't change your Google Play country or don't run across the choice to, try the following:

Clear your enshroud and data

Make sure your app is updated

Delete a payments profile

What happens when you alter countries

Google Play balance

Important: You can modify your Play Land once per year. If y'all change your country, y'all'll need to wait a twelvemonth to change it again.

Your Google Play Remainder is linked to your Google Play country. If you have Google Play balance and alter countries, you won't be able to apply that balance in your new country.

Your balance will still be linked to your old country. If you change back to your onetime state you volition be able to use it again.

Google Play Laissez passer

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

If Play Laissez passer is available in your new country: Your access volition remain the same.

If Play Pass isn't bachelor: You'll still have admission to apps installed on your device, but y'all won't be able to scan or install boosted Play Pass apps. Learn how to manage your Google Play Pass subscription.

Tip:Some apps won't exist available in sure countries.

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