Changing region of Samsung galaxy device

[blnc]

I am currently living in Canada, however, I recently moved 4-5 years ago. I have got a new device (s21 ultra) that I bought in Canada and am using a Canadian sim. However, it still seems as though my region is still locked to India.

How do I change this ?

[Cassidy]

Hi @blnc 

Go in your Samsung's account and change country ...you need to sign-in ...and you go change the country in the Profile section.

For Samsung 

https://account.samsung.com/membership/intro

For Google 

To change country in Google, check here  and read carefully

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Store app .
2. Tap Menu   Account.
3. Under "Country and profiles," find your name and country.
4. If you don't have a payment method from the new country, follow the onscreen instructions to add a payment method. This creates a new Google Payments profile linked to the new country.
   • The first payment method must be from the country you’re adding a profile for.
   • Once you create the profile, you can add payment methods from other countries.
5. The Google Play Store automatically changes to the new country. It can take up to 24 hours to change.

Check this too :

https://youtu.be/l8kvIknYOL4

Profile section

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[blnc]

hey, I am unable to change the region, but I can edit other information... not sure why it won't let me do this

[Cassidy]

You can change your region once a year only ,
Open Google Play Store
Click on Account
Change Country

[Tallman]

Hi blnc, I think you need to create a new account under Samsung Canada. You have to give up your India profile. Once you created a new Canadian account, login to your new profile and that's it.

[blnc]

how do I do this ? do I just make a new account? or is there a way for me to transfer the account details somehow

[Halston]

Hi blnc,

Please check the below link to the post in which we have discussed the same query before. I hope it will help you.

https://r1.community.samsung.com/t5/others/change-my-country-in-my-samsung-account/m-p/8463197#M2859...

[Cassidy]

@Halston,  we make the same mistake,  it's not for Samsung's account, it's for Google account

He has to go in Google Play Store,  

Click on Account

Change country 

IF YOU HAVE A VPN  you can do it in 2 minutes

https://youtu.be/RsdKnOxs5JA

Start your VPN, choose Canada as country

Open Google Play Store,  go in Account, it will let you change the country,  i just tried it

As example, i took France

Play Store refuse to connect ..i have to change country

[blnc]

hey, on my Google account the region is correct, the issue is with my Samsung account

[blnc]

my Google account shows the correct region