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Change Preferred Language

  • February 5, 2025
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Hi Team,

Want to Know is Any Way around the Change the Preferred Language on the Macbook with the Help of jamf.

i want to change the Preferred Language from English to English U.S.

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AJPinto
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  • Legendary Contributor
  • February 5, 2025

You can change the language by modifying the AppleLanguages key in 

/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist with the defaults command. It is still best to allow the user to manage this setting as the device needs to reboot to fully apply it.


dsavageED
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  • February 5, 2025

It should be two lines of code (I'm in the UK) -


defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages "(en-GB)"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale "en_GB"