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Looking to make the little flag icon, when entering your phone number during registration, automatically be a certain country. 

Hi Kat,

At the moment, the mobile number field's default country is controlled by the system and can't be manually set to a specific country by planners. Today, the behavior is:

• The default country/flag is based on the event's locale (and in some cases, the attendee's device), not a per‑event setting.

• When attendees start typing their number, the system updates the flag based on the digits they enter, or they can pick their country from the dropdown, which will then populate the correct country code.

Product has confirmed that giving planners the ability to choose a default country (for example, always defaulting to +1 for US events) is on the roadmap, but it hasn't been released yet.

In the meantime, the best workaround is to:

• Set the event locale to your primary country where possible, and

• Add clear help text next to the mobile field (e.g., "Please begin your mobile number with +[country code]") to guide attendees.

Hope this helps!

Julianna 

Looking to make the little flag icon, when entering your phone number during registration, automatically be a certain country. 

Hi Julianna,
I want to point out that the locale is still not being picked up, nor is the location of the attendee, with this widget in a multi-lingual setting. We have our event to be in both english and french, and when the registrant selects french it shows the country code for france. Our client is based in Montreal. Can you let me know if there is an update for this coming soon, or if this is a glitch?
Thanks!

Hi Kat,

At the moment, the mobile number field's default country is controlled by the system and can't be manually set to a specific country by planners. Today, the behavior is:

• The default country/flag is based on the event's locale (and in some cases, the attendee's device), not a per‑event setting.

• When attendees start typing their number, the system updates the flag based on the digits they enter, or they can pick their country from the dropdown, which will then populate the correct country code.

Product has confirmed that giving planners the ability to choose a default country (for example, always defaulting to +1 for US events) is on the roadmap, but it hasn't been released yet.

In the meantime, the best workaround is to:

• Set the event locale to your primary country where possible, and

• Add clear help text next to the mobile field (e.g., "Please begin your mobile number with +[country code]") to guide attendees.

Hope this helps!

Julianna 

Looking to make the little flag icon, when entering your phone number during registration, automatically be a certain country.