diff -u b/core/modules/user/lib/Drupal/user/AccountFormController.php b/core/modules/user/lib/Drupal/user/AccountFormController.php
--- b/core/modules/user/lib/Drupal/user/AccountFormController.php
+++ b/core/modules/user/lib/Drupal/user/AccountFormController.php
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
    * {@inheritdoc}
    */
   public function form(array $form, array &$form_state) {
+    /** @var \Drupal\user\UserInterface $account */
     $account = $this->entity;
     $user = $this->currentUser();
     $config = \Drupal::config('user.settings');
@@ -252,7 +253,6 @@
       '#languages' => Language::STATE_CONFIGURABLE,
       '#default_value' => $user_preferred_admin_langcode,
       '#access' => $show_admin_language,
-      '#access' => $show_admin_language && $account->hasPermission('access administration pages'),
     );
     // User entities contain both a langcode property (for identifying the
     // language of the entity data) and a preferred_langcode property (see