# Specify a Default Input Method
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To specify a default input method to be used in your users’ streaming sessions, perform the following steps.

**Note**  
If you plan to configure the display language, and you want the input method and display language to match, you do not need to change the input method. Changing the display language in Windows also automatically changes the user locale and input method to match the language and region of the display language. If you want all three settings to match, you do not need to separately change the user locale or input method.

1.  Connect to the image builder that you want to use and sign in with an account that has local administrator permissions. To do so, do either of the following:
   + [Use the WorkSpaces Applications console](managing-image-builders-connect-console.md) (for web connections only)
   + [Create a streaming URL](managing-image-builders-connect-streaming-URL.md) (for web or WorkSpaces Applications client connections)
**Note**  
If the image builder that you want to connect to is joined to an Active Directory domain and your organization requires smart card sign in, you must create a streaming URL and use the WorkSpaces Applications client for the connection. For information about smart card sign in, see [Smart Cards](feature-support-USB-devices-qualified.md#feature-support-USB-devices-qualified-smart-cards).

1. On the image builder desktop, choose the Windows **Start** button, and choose **Control Panel**.

1. Choose **Clock, Language, and Region**, then **Language**, **Add a language**.

1. Choose a language, and choose **Add**.
**Note**  
Currently, WorkSpaces Applications supports only **English (United States)** and **Japanese**.

1. The language that you chose appears in the list of languages you added to Windows.

1. Choose **Advanced Settings**. Under **Override for default input method**, choose the input method for the language you added.

1. Choose **Save**.

1. Log off and log in again. To do so, choose the Windows **Start** button on the image builder desktop. Choose **ImageBuilderAdmin**, **Sign out**. When prompted, log in as Administrator.

1. If required, configure additional default regional or language settings. Otherwise, on the image builder desktop, open Image Assistant and install and configure applications for streaming. 

1. In Step 2 of the Image Assistant process, choose **Save settings**.

1. Follow the necessary steps in Image Assistant to finish creating your image. For information about how to create an image, see [Tutorial: Create a Custom WorkSpaces Applications Image by Using the WorkSpaces Applications Console](tutorial-image-builder.md).

1. Do one of the following:
   + Create a new fleet and choose your new image for the fleet. For information, see [Create an Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Fleet and Stack](set-up-stacks-fleets.md).
   + Update an existing fleet to use the new image.

1. Associate your fleet with the stack that is assigned to the users for whom you are configuring the default settings. 

   The default input method that you configured is applied to the fleet instances and user streaming sessions that are launched from those instances.

**Note**  
Your users can change their input method from the default setting that you configured to any one of nine different supported input methods. They can configure this setting by configuring their regional settings during application streaming sessions, as described in [Enable Your WorkSpaces Applications Users to Configure Their Regional Settings](regional-settings.md). Also, if a user previously selected an input method when streaming from any fleet instance in the same Region, that user-specified setting automatically overrides any default input method that you specify through your image builder.