Excellent news for anybody bored with or embarrassed by their present Gmail handle: You could quickly be capable of change it with out dropping entry to your outdated emails and recordsdata.
As first noticed by the Google Pixel Hub group on Telegram and subsequently reported in 9to5Google, a Hindi model of the Gmail help web site states that Google is “step by step rolling out to all customers” the flexibility to alter the e-mail handle tied to their Google account, together with altering from their present Gmail handle to “to a brand new electronic mail handle that ends in gmail.com.”
In the event you make the swap, your outdated Gmail handle ought to nonetheless work as an alias, and also you’ll be capable of signal into Google companies with both your new or outdated handle. Nevertheless, you gained’t be capable of create any extra Gmail addresses tied to your account for an additional 12 months.
As of Sunday afternoon, the English-language version of the support site nonetheless states, “In case your account’s electronic mail handle ends in @gmail.com, you normally can’t change it” and as a substitute suggests changing the name related to the handle or signing up for a brand new handle after which transferring emails and contacts over.
