One of the saddest UX failures of Drupal (and now Backdrop) is when someone updates field display settings four or five times with no effect. Usually this is because they click the "Update" button thinking their settings will update, but they don't. Not unless they also hit "Save". And the "Save" button is usually below the fold, so the poor unsuspecting user may not even know there is a save button.

Secret save

To solve this problem, we should make the update button actually save, too.
Related issue: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/573
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There is a Drupal 7 contrib module that "lets the administrator see all administration pages in her preferred language" and which could be ported to Backdrop: https://www.drupal.org/project/...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
@stpaultim – You're right: my approach affects also the main menu. I guess, because menus are also considered as user interface (not as content). @findlabnet – If I didn't miss anything,...
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)
Go to the account edit of the desired user. On the horizontal tab below "Region and Language," select "English" or another language. WFM.
Allow admin to select admin language seperate from front end language (multilingual)