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

[MacRumors]

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.

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.

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

 

[steviewondercansee]

sk8erboi2006@gmail.com

Could you please not expose my email?

 

[Zenman12]

I’m tired of ads and not able to hide my emails with Gmail.

 

[HouseLannister]

They are also expiring and freeing up old, unused accounts at an increased clip. So if you lost an account a decade ago because of bad password habits, you can probably get it back now.

 

[ppj845]

Still can't change any of my email addresses 🤷‍♂️

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Interesting!

I've had my gmail account since it was invite only, so I've got a pretty good (short) one, that is basically impossible to get now, but I wonder if I can shorten it further? 🤔

Edit: Not available for me.

 

[WilliApple]

I remember I tried to have a friends email be
ilovepoop[hisbirthday]@gmail.com
Idk if he actually followed through with that lol

 

[Zenman12]

Could you please not expose my email?

 

[iMac The Knife]

Sweet! Done and done!!

 

[minhrom]

Thanks god, my old gmail address was luversw33tboi4u@gmail

 

[Andreas from Zurich]

…that you use for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Google Drive, and more

Why on earth would I?

 

[Jay-Jacob]

Haha yeah. I remember in 90s when email was popular with teens and MSN messenger and nearly all my friends email mixture like this hotbabes@…. cooldude@….. sexygal@….. etc. They thought I was boring when I use normal sounding email address as teen, I knew I needed them adult life. So I was only one kept original email address and everyone else had to create new ones and abandon teen emails.

 

[Archmage]

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 😩

 

[Spinarelo]

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

 

[klasma]

but as an adult you would prefer to have a more professional johnsmith@gmail.com address.

Then you’re out of luck because that’s already taken.

 

[HouseLannister]

Why on earth would I?

Yeah, it works on Google Earth too.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Then you’re out of luck because that’s already taken.

Yep, if you didn't get on early, you're screwed. Just checked, and I created my Gmail account on 14 November 2004.

Dang!

 

[mthomas184]

I tried to run with my actual firstinitial lastname and it said
This username isn't allowed. Try another.

Tried with my first and middle initial and last name and said it wasn't available.

The fact that my first initial last name isn't allowed is quite amusing lol

 

[klasma]

Haha yeah. I remember in 90s when email was popular with teens and MSN messenger and nearly all my friends email mixture like this hotbabes@…. cooldude@….. sexygal@….. etc. They thought I was boring when I use normal sounding email address as teen, I knew I needed them adult life. So I was only one kept original email address and everyone else had to create new ones and abandon teen emails.

The coolest for me were the <firstname>@<veryshortdomainname>, so I ended up getting me such a domain.

 

[Lioness~]

I try to use my various me/mac/icloud, emails as much as I can.
They works just fine on google, as alternative emails.
The account gmail I have are ok, but not used much at all in other ways.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Ofc it's US only , maybe other countries will come in 2 years? Who knows, this is google we're talking about after all.

 

[JMalone]

John Smith is going to sue for the amount of spam he gets today.

 

[smithrh]

Or...

Buy your own domain (cheap, not hard).

Integrate that domain into iCloud (also not hard).

Have any address you want, and control it any way you want. There are a few limits on the number of addresses you can integrate into iCloud, it might be 3 but that's enough for most mortal souls.

Move from Apple? Can do, choose something else if you need to or want to. It's up to you, not anyone else.

 

[Jay-Jacob]

The coolest for me were the <firstname>@<veryshortdomainname>, so I ended up getting me such a domain.

I was lucky I was able to create Hotmail, Gmail and yahoo email exact same email address. Since it was early days and choices was available then.

 

[LordArchie]

Then you’re out of luck because that’s already taken.

johnskaterboismith@gmail it is then