Google is at last letting users swap out embarrassing Gmail addresses without losing their data

Google has yet answered users’ cries, allowing Gmail users to swap retired embarrassing teenage email addresses.

Gmail relationship holders tin present alteration their existing @gmail.com code portion retaining their information and services.

Once changed, aged email addresses volition stay active, and users volition proceed to person emails sent to some the aged and caller addresses.

Saved information connected to earlier addresses, including photos, messages and emails, volition not beryllium affected.

The quality to alteration Google Account email addresses is gradually rolling retired to each users, and is not instantly disposable to everyone, Google noted connected its enactment page.

Gmail users who privation to power to much anonymous email addresses oregon felt burdened by the email addresses they chose arsenic kids celebrated the update connected societal media.

“Feature needed: 2005. Feature arriving: 2025. Gap: 2 decades of suffering,” 1 idiosyncratic posted connected X.

“So each those years of ‘cool’ usernames and cringe emails tin beryllium erased… shame it can’t delete the memories associated with them,” different X idiosyncratic posted.

“Nah I’m keeping StonerBeast42069 forever!!” 1 Reddit idiosyncratic quipped.

Members of the transgender assemblage and others who person changed their names were besides blessed arsenic the caller options fto them region themselves from their erstwhile names.

Competing services specified arsenic Microsoft Outlook person agelong allowed users to easy alteration their superior code by adding an “alias.”

Google lone allows accounts that extremity successful @gmail.com to marque changes, and the caller code indispensable besides extremity successful @gmail.com.

While users tin reuse their aged Google Account email code anytime, erstwhile changed, they cannot registry different email code for the aforesaid relationship for the adjacent 12 months.

Users funny successful changing their emails nether the caller strategy request to corroborate that it has been rolled retired for their account.

In their Gmail account, users tin click “Manage Your Google Account.” Under “Personal Info,” they tin click connected their Gmail relationship email address. If the enactment is disposable successful their region, they tin proceed by clicking connected the “Change your Google Account email address” option.