How do you change your Shopify admin language?

Where do you change your admin language?

1. From your Shopify admin, click your store name (in the refreshed admin design, it's in the sidebar).
2. Click your profile.
3. Under Preferred language, open the Language drop-down and select a language.
4. Click Save.

In Shopify adminOpen Shopify admin

1. Store name
2. your profile
3. Preferred language

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Shopify Help lists 49 languages you can switch the admin to as of November 2026, some marked “(Beta)” in your admin.

Arabic, Urdu and Hebrew are among them; Shopify announced improved support for these right-to-left languages on October 2, 2026.

The separate Regional format setting, below the Language field, adjusts the numbers, currencies, time and date in your admin to the standard formatting of the region you choose.

Does it change the language your customers see?

No. Per Shopify, changing your account language “changes only the language that is displayed to you in your Shopify admin” and “won't affect the language of your online storefront.”

The language shoppers see is a separate setup, covered in how to translate a Shopify store.

What sets the language in the Shopify app and POS?

The Shopify mobile app's language “is determined by your device's language settings,” so change it on your device.

As listed in Shopify Help on November 10, 2026, the app supports 33 languages, without Arabic, Hebrew or Urdu; if none of your device's languages is supported, it uses English. So your browser admin can be in Arabic while the app shows English if Arabic is the only language set on your device.

To change the Shopify POS app language, you change your device's language; Shopify Help lists 20 supported POS languages, also without Arabic, Hebrew or Urdu.

In your admin, you can assign only one language at a time to each POS location, for its products; per Shopify, it “also affects email, SMS, and printed receipts.”