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Change the language of your Creative Cloud apps

Learn how to change the default language for installing Creative Cloud apps. Once set, you can uninstall and reinstall any existing installations.

How to change the language settings of Creative Cloud apps

You can change the default language for future installs of your Creative Cloud apps. To benefit from this change, you need to reinstall any existing apps.

  1. Select the Account icon in the upper right, and then select Preferences.

    The Account menu showing options such as Preferences, Sign out, and monthly generative credits for Gen AI features.
    Customize your experience by exploring your account preferences.

    Note:

    If your screen looks different, follow the instructions for the earlier version of the Creative Cloud desktop app. 

  2. Select Apps in the left sidebar of the Preferences dialog box. 

  3. Select a language from the Default install language list.

    The Apps tab of the Preferences window showing options to enable or disable auto-updates, select install location and default install language, and view older apps.
    The dropdown menu displays a list of available languages for selection.

  4. Select Done to apply your changes.

    All apps that you download after making this change install in the new language.

  5. To apply the language change to an app already installed on your computer, uninstall and reinstall the app.

Still don't see your apps in the language of your choice?

Change your macOS or Windows language settings to match your region. 

How to change the language settings for Creative Cloud desktop app

To switch the default language of your Creative Cloud desktop app, change the language on your Mac or Windows computer.

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