How to change your Google Play land

If you move to a new country y'all may want to alter your Google Play land. Your Google Play state determines what content you see in the shop. The apps, games, and other content in the Shop can vary by country.

  • You must look 12 months after initially creating a payments profile before you tin can change your Play country. Y'all can merely change your Play country in one case per year. If you alter your land, you won't be able to alter it dorsum for one year.
    • When you modify your country, yous won't exist able to utilise your Google Play balance that you accept in your onetime country in your new country.
    • Yous may lose admission to some books, movies, Television receiver shows, games, and apps.
  • To change your land, you need to set upwardly a new country in Google Play.
    • To set up a new country, yous must exist in that land and take a payment method from the new country.

Change your Google Play land

Switch between existing country profiles

Important:You must wait 12 months after initially creating a payments profile before you lot can change your Play country. Y'all tin change your Play Country once per twelvemonth. If you alter your country, you'll demand to wait a year to change it once again.

  1. Open the Google Play Store app Google Play.
  2. At the top right, tap the profile icon.
  3. TapSettings and then General and then Account preferences and then Country and profiles.
  4. To change countries, tap the name of the i you want to modify to.

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

I don't see the option to add a country

You may not encounter this choice if:

  • You've inverse your country within the last yr.
  • Y'all aren't currently in a new country. This is based on your IP address.
  • You're part of a Google Play Family Library.

Set up problems when you update your Google Play state

If y'all can't change your Google Play country or don't encounter the choice to, endeavour the following:

Clear your cache and data

Brand sure your app is updated

Delete a payments profile

What happens when you change countries

Google Play balance

Important: You lot can alter your Play Land in one case per year. If you modify your country, you lot'll demand to wait a year to change information technology again.

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

Your residual will still exist linked to your former land. If you change back to your old country you will be able to use it again.

Google Play Laissez passer

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

If Play Pass is available in your new state: Your admission will remain the same.

If Play Laissez passer isn't available: Y'all'll still have access to apps installed on your device, merely you won't be able to browse or install additional Play Laissez passer apps. Learn how to manage your Google Play Laissez passer subscription.

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

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