Change app language on your Android phone

You can change the language for an individual app in your device settings.

Important: Some of these steps work only on Android 14 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.

Change the language setting for a specific app

Important: Apps that are set to follow the system default use the first supported language in the list.

  1. On your device, open your Settings app.
  2. Tap System and then Languages and then App Languages.
  3. Select the app you want to change.
  4. Choose a language.

Tip: You can only change the language for apps that support language selection.

Troubleshoot problems with app language feature

"All languages" lists the languages that a specific app supports. To get the most up-to-date list of supported languages, update your app.

Set regional preferences

Important: Regional preferences settings are only available on Android 14 and up.

  1. On your device, open your Settings app.
  2. Tap System and then Languages and then Regional preferences.
  3. Select your regional preferences based on:
    • Temperature: Set your preferred temperature unit, like Celsius or Fahrenheit.
    • First day of week: Set your preferred first day of a week, like Sunday or Monday.
    • Number preferences: Change the numbering system for languages such as Arabic, where more than one numbering system is commonly used. This item shows up only for languages where more than one numbering system is commonly used.

Tips:

  • Your default regional preferences are based on your system and app language settings. For example, the commonly used temperature unit in English (United States) is Farenheit and the first day of the week is Sunday. In English (United Kingdom) they are Celsius and Monday, respectively.
  • You can also set your preferred weather unit across many Google services.
    1. Open the Google app.
    2. Tap on the weather chip.
    3. On the weather card, tap Menu .
    4. Select your preferred temperature unit.
4239858338806770613
true
Search Help Center
true
true
true
false
false
Search
Clear search
Close search
Main menu
false