Change the system currency in macos Ventura

Hi community, I'd like to change the default currency on my laptop but it seems since Ventura this option is gone from "language and region" preferences. How can I do that then? Regards.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 16, 2022 01:00 AM

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Posted on Nov 16, 2022 08:24 AM

It seems to work. My language and region is current set to Germany, de_DE, with the currency EUR.


When I enter the command below into the Terminal, the currency symbol is changing to US Dollar $

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "de_DE@currency=USD"


The System Settings for Language and Region are showing then this example.


And with this command it is back to normal, after restarting the System Settings:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "de_DE@currency=EUR"
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Nov 16, 2022 08:24 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

It seems to work. My language and region is current set to Germany, de_DE, with the currency EUR.


When I enter the command below into the Terminal, the currency symbol is changing to US Dollar $

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "de_DE@currency=USD"


The System Settings for Language and Region are showing then this example.


And with this command it is back to normal, after restarting the System Settings:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "de_DE@currency=EUR"

Nov 16, 2022 06:52 AM in response to 5n0wh34d

5n0wh34d wrote:

Hi community, I'd like to change the default currency on my laptop but it seems since Ventura this option is gone from "language and region" preferences. How can I do that then? Regards.

I think you can probably do this via Terminal (as with the number format explalined here), but I am not about the details. One source I found gave the following example:


defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string "en_GB@currency=EUR"

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