Google has finally answered users\u2019 cries, allowing Gmail users to swap out embarrassing teenage email addresses. <\/p>\n
Gmail account holders can now change their existing @gmail.com<\/a> address while retaining their data and services.<\/p>\n Once changed, old email addresses will remain active, and users will continue to receive emails sent to both the old and new addresses. <\/p>\n Saved data connected to earlier addresses, including photos, messages and emails, will not be affected.<\/p>\n The ability to change Google Account email addresses is gradually rolling out to all users, and is not immediately available to everyone, Google noted on its support page<\/a>. <\/p>\n Gmail users who want to switch to more anonymous email addresses or felt burdened by the email addresses they chose as kids celebrated the update on social media. <\/p>\n \u201cFeature needed: 2005. Feature arriving: 2025. Gap: two decades of suffering,\u201d one user posted on X. <\/p>\n \u201cSo all those years of \u2018cool\u2019 usernames and cringe emails can be erased\u2026 shame it can\u2019t delete the memories associated with them,\u201d another X user posted.<\/p>\n \u201cNah I\u2019m keeping StonerBeast42069 forever!!\u201d one Reddit user quipped.<\/p>\n Members of the transgender community and others who have changed their names were also happy as the new options let them distance themselves from their former names. <\/p>\n Competing services such as Microsoft Outlook have long allowed users to easily change their primary address by adding an \u201calias.\u201d <\/p>\n Google only allows accounts that end in @gmail.com<\/a> to make changes, and the new address must also end in @gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n While users can reuse their old Google Account email address anytime, once changed, they cannot register another email address for the same account for the next 12 months.<\/p>\n Users interested in changing their emails under the new system need to confirm that it has been rolled out for their account. <\/p>\n In their Gmail account, users can click \u201cManage Your Google Account.\u201d Under \u201cPersonal Info,\u201d they can click on their Gmail account email address. If the option is available in their region, they can proceed by clicking on the \u201cChange your Google Account email address\u201d option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google has finally answered users\u2019 cries, allowing Gmail users to swap out embarrassing teenage email addresses. Gmail account…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[214867,12920,12817,3553,20461,214872,2722,214868,5204,214871,214870,214869,6228,158,214873,67,132,68,38317],"class_list":{"0":"post-473809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-com-address","9":"tag-datum","10":"tag-email","11":"tag-feature","12":"tag-gmail","13":"tag-gmail-account-holder","14":"tag-google","15":"tag-google-account-email-address","16":"tag-name","17":"tag-new-address","18":"tag-new-option","19":"tag-old-email-address","20":"tag-service","21":"tag-technology","22":"tag-transgender-community","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-user"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473809","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=473809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}