Facebook: How to change language of your Facebook account and news feed on mobile phone and laptop
Facebook is said to have over 2.85 billion monthly active users. One of the reasons why it enjoys such popularity is the social media platform’s availability in multiple languages. Facebook supports 100+ languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, French, Spanish, and more to help you understand the platform better and get the most out of it. While the language is set to English by default in most cases, there is an option to change it to your own mother tongue. That’s exactly what we’ll be guiding you about on how to change the language of your Facebook account on both mobile and laptop. So without any further ado, let’s take a look:
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How to change Facebook language via app
Changing the language on the Facebook app is even easier than posting a story! There can be several reasons to do so like browsing through the posts in your own mother tongue, or maybe someone accidentally or intentionally changed the app language. Whatever the case be, here’s how you can switch to your preferred language in the FB app for Android and iPhone.
Change Facebook language on Android mobile phone
In just a few easy steps, you can scroll through Facebook on any preferred language
- Open the Facebook app on your Android phone
- Select the menu tab at the top right
- Scroll down, and select ‘Settings & privacy’
- A drop down would appear, select ‘Settings’
- Now scroll down to ‘Language and region’ and select it
- On the next screen, select the first option to just change the language of Facebook elements such as buttons and titles
- The second option is the one that will change the language of the app overall
- Select it to browse through the languages and choose your preferred one
- Hit ‘Save’ and you’re done!
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Change Facebook language on iPhone
Changing the app language on iPhone is pretty similar to Android. Here’s how:
- Open the Facebook app on your iPhone
- Select the menu tab at the bottom right
- Scroll down, and select ‘Settings & privacy’
- A dropdown would appear, select ‘Settings’
- Now scroll down to ‘Language and region’ and select it
- On the next screen, select the first option to just change the language of Facebook elements such as buttons and titles
- The second option is the one that will change the language of the app overall
- Select it to browse through the languages and choose your preferred one
- Hit ‘Save’ and you’re done!
How to change Facebook language via browser
Changing language of the Facebook website is also pretty straightforward. The changes you make here will not reflect on the FB app. Here’s how you can go about it:
- Head over to facebook.com on your PC and login
- In the top right, there’s a dropdown arrow. Select it
- Now click ‘Settings & privacy’
- Several options would appear, select the last one which says ‘Language’
- You’ll be directly taken to Language and region settings
- The very first option is the Facebook language with an edit button. Click ‘Edit’
- A dropdown would appear which you can browse through the languages and choose your preferred one
- After this, click ‘Save changes’ and that’s it!
FAQs
How many languages does Facebook support
Facebook supports more than 100 languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, eight Indian languages and many more. All the prominent and most spoken languages are available on the platform to choose from.
How to undo language change?
You can revert back to your default language by just following the above-mentioned steps for Android, iPhone and the Facebook website accordingly. In case the current language is unrecognisable, with help of icons browse through the settings and make your way to the last step i.e. the language dropdown. Refer to the screenshots above.
So, folks, are were several ways you can change Facebook language be it on the app or the website. With so many languages now supported by FB, you’re most likely to find your native one.
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