You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

Good news for anyone who’s tired of or embarrassed by their current Gmail address: you may soon be able to change it without losing access to your old emails and files.

As first spotted by the Google Pixel Hub group on Telegram and subsequently reported in 9to5Googlea Hindi version of the Gmail support website says Google is “gradually rolling out to all users” the ability to change the email address linked to their Google account, including changing their current Gmail address to “a new email address that ends with gmail.com.”

If you make the change, your old Gmail address should still work as an alias and you will be able to sign in to Google services with your new or old address. However, you won’t be able to create additional Gmail addresses linked to your account for another 12 months.

From Sunday afternoon, the English version of the support site always says: “If your account email address ends in @gmail.com, you usually can’t change it” and suggests instead change the name associated with the address or by registering for a new address and then forwarding emails and contacts.