XPost: comp.mobile.android, uk.telecom.mobile   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Marion  wrote:   
   > On 19 Mar 2025 09:17:49 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote :   
   >   
   > >   And thanks for the warning. You can't only end up with the wrong   
   > > country, but also with the wrong currency (for the correct country and   
   > > vice versa). Been there, done that, got the T-shirt (which I had to pay   
   > > in Australian dollars instead of in Euros).   
   > >   
   > >   Sadly the webpage only talks about changing your 'Google Play country',   
   > > but not how to  check what it's currently set to.   
   > >   
   > >   It's reasonable to assume it's the same as the country of the 'HOME'   
   > > address of your account [1].   
   > >   
   > > [1] Strangely the 'HOME' address doesn't mention the country, only the   
   > > street address and city and shows a Google Maps picture of that   
   > > location.   
   >   
   > Thanks for that update & subsequent question of how to tell the country.   
   >   
   > I just checked my wife's Android because I don't have the Google Play Store   
   > app on my phone, where her app says her country is the "United States".   
   >   
   > Here's what I did:   
   > a. It took me a while to *find* her Google Play Store app to open it   
   >    (I could never teach my wife or kids to be organized on a phone!)   
   > b. Inside the app, at the top right, I pressed her profile icon   
   > c. I selected Settings from the bottom of the resulting menu   
   > d. Then General from the top of the next resulting menu   
   > e. The second item down has a subset of "Account, country, & history"   
   > f. When I hit that second item, it took a long while to come back   
   >    (which indicates you need Internet access for it to do a lookup)   
   > g. In the middle it says her full (real!) name & "United States"   
   >   
   > The weird thing is it worked differently the *second* time I did it.   
   > I did it a second time so that I could write up the steps for you above.   
   >   
   > So I "think" it's not normally populated inside the Google Play Store app.   
   > I "think" it populated only after doublechecking with Google over the net.   
   >   
   > It does say under "United States" the warning not to change the country   
   > unless you are moving to that country, but it doesn't explain why.   
   >   
   > It would be interesting to see what people in Europe & the UK see.   
      
     For me in The Netherlands - a EU/EEA country -:   
      
     Below 'Netherlands' and my name, there first is a comment about EEA   
   countries, basically saying that you can only purchase and download   
   (geofenced) for your own country, but you can browse content from other   
   EEA countries if you use the Google Play website while not logged in.   
      
     After this comment, there is the warning you mention but with a 'Learn   
   more' link to the 'How to change your Google Play country' webpage.   
   Don't you get that link?   
      
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