# Configuring Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console
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You can configure settings and defaults, such as display, language, and Region, from the AWS Management Console **Unified Settings** page. You can access Unified Settings via the navigation bar in Unified Navigation. The visual mode and default language can also be set directly from the navigation bar. These changes apply to all service consoles.

**Important**  
To ensure that your settings, favorite services, and recently visited services persist globally, this data is stored in all AWS Regions, including Regions that are disabled by default. These Regions are Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), and Middle East (UAE). You still need to [manually enable a Region](select-region.md) to access it and to create and manage resources in that Region. If you don't want to store this data in all AWS Regions, choose **Reset all** to clear your settings, and then opt out of remembering recently visited services in Settings management.

**Topics**
+ [Accessing Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console](access-unified-settings.md)
+ [Resetting Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console](reset-unified-settings.md)
+ [Editing Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console](edit-unified-settings.md)
+ [Changing the visual mode of the AWS Management Console](visual-mode-unified-settings.md)