{"id":473191,"date":"2025-12-26T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473191\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:57:12","slug":"google-is-letting-some-people-change-their-gmail-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473191\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is letting some people change their @gmail address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you\u2019ve been saddled with some awful Gmail address you chose in high school (looking at you, LazySexyCool3030), help appears to be on the way. According to a Google account support page in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/19870?dark=0&amp;sjid=13129471057818824497-NA&amp;hl=hi#zippy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hindi<\/a> the company is allowing some people to change their email address. According to the page (via Google Translate):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30 _1xwtict9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">If your Google Account email address ends with gmail.com, you can replace it with one that ends with @gmail.com.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This appears to be more like adding a second address to your account than actually changing your email address, however. Email sent to your old address will still arrive in your inbox, and that address will still work to sign in to any accounts associated with it. In fact, your old address is set as an alias for the new one. Any messages, photos, and other files associated with the old address will also be preserved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There are <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/PixelHubUpdates\/4453\" rel=\"nofollow\">some limits<\/a> on the ability to change addresses. You can only do it once a year, for one. And you can only create three new addresses in total \u2014 after that, you\u2019re cut off. You can still revert to your old email at any time. There are also apparently some issues with settings and files carrying over on ChromeOS, so it\u2019s advised that you make a full backup of your computer before switching.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">For people who got their Gmail address when they were young, before they even considered the possibility that they might not be that into Naruto forever, this could save a lot of headaches. It\u2019s also likely to be appreciated by anyone who has changed their name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The updated support page isn\u2019t showing up in English, and the option to change your Gmail address hasn\u2019t appeared for any Verge staffers yet. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/12\/24\/google-change-gmail-addresses\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">9to5Google<\/a> the feature is \u201cgradually rolling out to all users.\u201d We\u2019ve reached out to Google for confirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve been saddled with some awful Gmail address you chose in high school (looking at you, LazySexyCool3030),&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2722,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-473191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115786930825618114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}