How to modify your Google Play state

If you motility to a new country you may want to modify your Google Play country. Your Google Play country determines what content you see in the store. The apps, games, and other content in the Shop can vary past state.

  • You must wait 12 months afterwards initially creating a payments profile earlier you tin change your Play country. You can only change your Play state once per year. If you change your country, you lot won't exist able to change it back for ane twelvemonth.
    • When you modify your state, you won't be able to utilise your Google Play rest that you have in your old country in your new state.
    • You may lose access to some books, movies, TV shows, games, and apps.
  • To change your country, y'all demand to set up a new state in Google Play.
    • To ready a new country, y'all must be in that land and take a payment method from the new country.

Change your Google Play country

Switch between existing country profiles

Important:You must await 12 months after initially creating a payments profile before you tin modify your Play country. Y'all can change your Play Land once per year. If you change your country, you'll need to look a year to alter it again.

  1. Open the Google Play Store app Google Play.
  2. At the tiptop right, tap the profile icon.
  3. TapSettings and then General and then Business relationship preferences and then Country and profiles.
  4. To alter countries, tap the proper name of the one yous want to change to.

Tip: Your profile can take upwards to 48 hours to update.

I don't encounter the option to add a state

You may not run across this choice if:

  • You've inverse your country within the terminal year.
  • You aren't currently in a new country. This is based on your IP accost.
  • You're office of a Google Play Family Library.

Prepare problems when you update your Google Play land

If you tin't modify your Google Play land or don't see the option to, attempt the following:

Clear your cache and data

Make sure your app is updated

Delete a payments profile

What happens when you change countries

Google Play balance

Of import: Yous can modify your Play Country one time per twelvemonth. If you modify your land, you lot'll need to wait a year to change it again.

Your Google Play Residuum is linked to your Google Play state. If you have Google Play residual and change countries, you won't exist able to use that balance in your new country.

Your balance will nevertheless be linked to your old country. If yous change back to your onetime country you will be able to use it again.

Google Play Pass

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

If Play Pass is available in your new country: Your admission volition remain the aforementioned.

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

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

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