You may finally be able to fix your embarrassing Gmail address - here's how

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Google mightiness soon fto you alteration your Gmail address.
• You tin log successful to each accounts with your aged and caller address.
• All information from your aged relationship volition stay.

Are you inactive stuck with that embarrassing Gmail code from assemblage oregon an code that contains an aged sanction you'd alternatively forget? Google mightiness yet fto you alteration it.

The institution hasn't made an authoritative announcement, but authoritative documents uncover that the quality to alteration your Gmail code could beryllium connected the mode soon. A Google enactment page was precocious updated to item the process of changing the email code for your Gmail account, explaining that the enactment mightiness not beryllium disposable for everyone.

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"The quality to alteration your Google Account email address," the adjacent enactment reads, though, "is gradually rolling retired to each users."

Google goes connected to explicate that you volition person emails astatine some your aged and caller code and that information related to your aged address, similar photos, messages, and emails, volition not beryllium affected. You volition beryllium capable to motion successful to Google services similar Gmail, Maps, Drive, and YouTube with your aged oregon caller email address, and you tin reuse your aged email code astatine immoderate time.

You volition not beryllium capable to delete your caller email address, though, and you can't make a caller Google Account email code for the adjacent 12 months (at slightest not 1 that ends successful gmail.com).

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Oddly, each of this verbiage is lone disposable connected the Hindi mentation of the papers (I utilized Chrome to construe the leafage and verify what it said). This could mean the diagnostic is coming to Hindi-speaking markets first, oregon it could conscionable mean that was the archetypal leafage officially updated. The English-language enactment leafage inactive contains the aged wording that your Gmail code "usually cannot beryllium changed."

Most of Google's competitors already connection this feature, and person for immoderate time, truthful it's bully to spot Gmail drawback up. Of course, you tin ever make a caller Gmail code with immoderate sanction you want, but you'll suffer immoderate information tied to that address, similar photos, music, and Google Play purchases. If this does yet rotation retired to each users, it volition beryllium a beauteous large deal.

I've reached retired to Google for much details.

How to alteration your Gmail code

Here's the process to alteration your Gmail erstwhile the diagnostic rolls out:

1. Open your device's Settings app, pat Google, past Your name, and past Manage your Google Account (or sojourn myaccount.google.com).
2. Tap Personal info and past Email.
3. Tap Google Account email. If you can't unfastened this setting, your relationship isn't eligible for change.
4. If your account's email code ends successful @gmail.com, you usually can't alteration it.
5. If you're utilizing a Google Account done your work, school, oregon different group, inquire your head for help.