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description: When you enable state and country/territory picklists, the picklists are immediately available to users. However, it can take some time for Salesforce to populate the ISO code fields on existing records. If users try to edit the state or country/territory on a record before the code field is populated, they’re prompted to select a code value.
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# Enable and Disable State and Country/Territory Picklists

When you enable state and country/territory picklists, the picklists are immediately available to users. However, it can take some time for Salesforce to populate the ISO code fields on existing records. If users try to edit the state or country/territory on a record before the code field is populated, they’re prompted to select a code value.

### Required Editions

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1. From Setup, enter State and Country/Territory Picklists in the Quick Find box, then select **State and Country/Territory Picklists**.
2. On the State and Country/Territory Picklists setup page, click **Enable Picklists for Address Fields** to turn on the picklists.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-xcloud-setup-264-0-0-production-enus/6f21df35-9ea0-4f53-ac94-45c3b5dfd5bc/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note
    
    - You can also enable state and country/territory picklists when you finish converting existing, text-based data to picklist values. See [Convert State and Country/Territory Data](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_state_country_picklists_convert_data.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To convert text-based state and country/territory data to picklist-compatible values, select specific text values and choose the standard values you want to map them to. For example, you can select all occurrences of “USA” and change them to “United States.”").
    - When you enable State and Country/Territory Picklists, history tracking changes from text to picklist fields.
3. To turn off state and country/territory picklists, click **Disable** on the State and Country/Territory Picklists setup page.
    
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    Important
    
    If you disable state and country/territory picklists:
    
    - For records that you haven’t saved since enabling picklists, state and country/territory values revert to their original text values.
    - For records that you’ve saved since enabling picklists, state, country, and territory integration values replace original text values.
    - References to state and country/territory picklists in customizations—such as workflow field updates, email templates, and Visualforce pages—become invalid.
    - Columns and filters that refer to picklist fields in reports and list views disappear.
    - You can’t edit state and country/territory fields in reports.

#### See Also

- [Let Users Select States, Countries, and Territories from Picklists](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_state_country_picklists_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "State and country/territory picklists let users select states, countries and territories from predefined, standardized lists, instead of entering state and country/territory data into text fields. State and country/territory picklists offer faster and easier data entry. They help to ensure cleaner data that can be harnessed for other uses—in reports and dashboards, for example. They protect data integrity by preventing typos, alternate spellings, and junk data—even in records updated through the API.")