Having created your Gmail account earlier in life, you probably cringe at the username you chose, which once seemed cool but now feels unprofessional or awkward. Until now, you had no real option but to live with it or create a new Google account and painstakingly move all your data and linked services. This is about to change, and yes, some places are already living the new dream.
Google is rolling out a new feature that allows its users to change their @gmail.com email addresses without creating a new account. Users can now change Gmail address while keeping all their existing emails, photos, Drive files, contacts, and access to Google services. With your old Gmail address as an alias, you can use both the old and new usernames to sign in across Google services, such as YouTube and Photos, and even send and receive emails on both addresses as one address. All your data intact!
There are a few limits. You can only change your Gmail address once every 12 months, with a maximum of three changes per account. Your old username remains tied to your account and cannot be used to create a new Google account during the 12-month lock-in period.
So far, the feature is only available in India, where Google began testing it after the update appeared on its Hindi support pages and will gradually expand it to other regions.
Users in regions where the feature has rolled out can see how to manage the change through Google’s support page. Happy switching that [email protected] to [email protected].
