Want to change your Gmail address? Now you can, without losing any data - here's how

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• You tin present alteration your Gmail code portion keeping your data.
• You'll get messages sent to some your caller and aged addresses.
• Gmail limits you to 1 alteration per year. 

If you've been utilizing your aged Gmail relationship that you created earlier you knew your username would matter, oregon with a sanction you privation to forget, your time is here.

Google has announced that you tin yet alteration your Google Account username -- the portion earlier @gmail.com successful your email -- without losing immoderate of your relationship data. Evidence of the quality to bash this started surfacing respective months ago, but the enactment is present present for everyone.  

If you're stuck with a regrettable email, you recognize what a large woody this is and wherefore radical person wanted it for years. Not lone is your username what you usage to motion successful to Google apps and services similar Gmail, Photos, and Drive, it's what you springiness to doctors' offices, your mechanic, your canine groomer, and more.

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When you marque the change, your aged Gmail code volition go an alternate, Google says. It volition inactive technically exist, and messages to some your aged and caller addresses volition travel to your caller one. You tin adjacent take to nonstop from your aged code if you want. This means you don't request to alteration each subscription oregon account, and astir importantly, it means thing saved successful your account, similar photos, messages, and emails, volition remain.

Prior to today, if you wanted to shed your aged username, your lone enactment was to marque a full caller account.

How to alteration your Gmail address

The process for updating your Gmail code is the aforesaid crossed each platforms. Whether you're connected a desktop browser, oregon an Android oregon iOS device, here's however to alteration your Gmail handle:

• Head to myaccount.google.com/google-account-email and motion in. 
• Click "Personal info" and past "Change Google Account email." 
• Choose your caller username (you tin spot portion you benignant whether what you privation is available).

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Google warns that you tin power backmost to your alternate Gmail code astatine immoderate time, but marque definite your caller sanction is 1 you privation to instrumentality with due to the fact that you tin lone make 1 caller relationship per year, and you tin lone alteration it 3 times full (for a full of 4 addresses tied to the aforesaid account).