How do you add a language or country selector on Shopify?

How do you turn on the selectors in Horizon?

Shopify's help says most Shopify themes include built-in country and language selectors, typically in the header or footer. In Horizon they live in the header:

1. In the Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes and click Edit theme.
2. Select the Header section.
3. Turn on Country/Region and Language selector, as Horizon's code labels the two toggles.
4. Optionally set the row and position the selectors take, then click Save.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Themes
3. Edit theme
4. Header

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In Horizon's public code as of October 22, 2026, both toggles default to on, though your copy may have been changed. That code puts these settings in the header only: we found none in Horizon's announcement bar or footer.

Dawn and themes without a selector setting

Dawn gives three sections their own country/region and language toggles, so you switch each place separately:

• Header
• Footer
• Announcement bar — Shopify's announcement bar steps name the options Enable country/region selector and Enable language selector; Dawn 15.3.0 and later label them Country/region selector and Language selector.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Themes
3. Edit theme
4. Announcement bar

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No announcement bar on your storefront yet? Add one first.

If no section of your theme offers a selector, Shopify's help on automatic redirection says you can add one with a third-party app from the Shopify App Store. A developer can build one instead: the selector goes inside a Liquid localization form.

Why isn't the language or country selector showing?

You turned the toggle on and saved, yet the storefront shows no switcher. Start with the count: Horizon and Dawn hide a selector when there is nothing to switch to, and Shopify's theme documentation tells developers to output a country selector only if there's more than one available country.

A language counts only once it's published in Settings > Languages; unpublishing hides it from customers.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Settings
2. Languages

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For countries, Horizon and Dawn read the list Shopify's Liquid reference describes as the countries “available on the store”; check which countries your active markets include.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Markets

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If the count for the selector you're missing is above one, check the rest in order:

1. The section itself. In Horizon, look in the header; as noted above, we found no selector setting in Horizon's footer or announcement bar.
2. The toggle in that section. Dawn switches its header, footer and announcement bar separately.
3. Language and domain. Check that the language is assigned to the domain your market uses: languages are assigned to domains, and each market uses a domain; without international domains, your language settings are the same for all active markets. The other requirements for selling in multiple languages apply too.

If your selector came from Shopify's Geolocation app, it is gone: the app was sunset and uninstalled on March 24, 2025. Automatic domain redirection and automatic browser language redirection reduce the need for the app's consent-based localization on stores with dedicated or shared domains, but they redirect visitors rather than add a selector, and Shopify's help recommends also providing a country and language selector.

Turn on your theme's own selector as described above. How redirection fits with markets and domains is in our Shopify Markets guide.