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Don't Like Your Gmail Email Address? You Can Finally Change It

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Google today announced that you can finally change the Google Account email address that you use for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Drive, and more, but this ability is only rolling out to U.S. accounts for now. The company did not indicate if or when this functionality will be available in other countries.

Gmail General
You can switch to any available @gmail.com address, and your previous address will become an alias, ensuring that you retain ownership of your original email address. You can still sign in and send and receive emails with both addresses.

You can change your Google Account's email address once per year, up to three times total, and Google says all emails and other account data and history are preserved. If you change your mind, you can revert to your old email address.

This new ability will be especially useful for longtime Gmail users who may have chosen a casual email address when they were younger. For example, maybe 13-year-old you signed up for sk8erboi2006@gmail.com, but as an adult you would prefer to have a more professional johnsmith@gmail.com address.

It was already possible to set up other email addresses as aliases in Gmail, but now you can change your account's main email address entirely.

Google provides more details in a support document.

Tags: Gmail, Google

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steviewondercansee
12 hours ago at 07:33 am

sk8erboi2006@gmail.com
Could you please not expose my email?
Score: 47 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Archmage
12 hours ago at 07:55 am
The problem isn’t my email address, it’s everybody else with the same first name and last name who thinks my email address is their email address 😩
Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Spinarelo
12 hours ago at 07:56 am
I got in nice and early when Gmail was in beta, my Gmail is simply my firstnamelastname@gmail.com the downside to that is that a bunch of idiots with my same name give my email address or sign up for stuff with my email address, either on purpose or by mistake and, I get a bunch of receipts, confirmations and junk
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Zenman12
12 hours ago at 07:45 am

Could you please not expose my email?
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ignatius345
10 hours ago at 09:16 am
I got into Gmail early and snagged a coveted short handle (my first initial and last name, with no extra numbers or anything). Score.

But honestly, I wish I hadn’t because I get such an absurd amount of crap directed to idiots who have my same last name and first initial. You would sort of think that if you’re giving out an address and never receiving any emails that you’d figure it out, but no.

I finally just started cancelling people’s appointments and declining their landscaping estimates because I’m so sick of it.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Gr8Lakes
11 hours ago at 08:35 am

The problem isn’t my email address, it’s everybody else with the same first name and last name who thinks my email address is their email address 😩
I hear you!
A friend gave me an invite when it was still beta. I chose just my last name. While not wildly popular in USA, apparently it is common in Latin America and the Mediterranean countries. I was getting about a hundred wrong addressees per day. Then someone offered me a cash incentive to transfer the account, I either said no, or ignored them.

Following that, I started getting several hundred spams per day. Guess I pissed them off. I've been engaged in low level warfare with them for about fifteen years now. I stopped actively using the account, but still go in occasionally. I had a rule that rejects any email not in english, but that stopped working five years ago. (no idea why)

I regular get emails from some guy(?) that drives a uber-type taxi in some African country. Every time he takes a trip, a new email for that. I have about three cars in the US linked to the address, so warnings about service due and receipts for service performed. Etc, etc, etc.

I used to primarily use a .EDU address, now I mostly use iCloud.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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