{"id":894,"date":"2025-12-27T00:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/you-may-soon-be-able-to-change-your-gmail-address\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:56:33","slug":"you-may-soon-be-able-to-change-your-gmail-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/you-may-soon-be-able-to-change-your-gmail-address\/","title":{"rendered":"You may soon be able to change your Gmail address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\">gmail.com<\/a> address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/19870\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\">support page<\/a> (translated) says that &#8220;the ability to change your Google Account email address is gradually rolling out to all users.&#8221; The change was first spotted on a Google Pixel <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/PixelHubUpdates\/4453\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\">forum<\/a> on Telegram and was first reported in the press by <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/12\/24\/google-change-gmail-addresses\/\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\"><em>9to5Google<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google hasn&#8217;t made a formal announcement about the change. The English version of the support page still says you usually can&#8217;t change your @<a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\">gmail.com<\/a> address. Up to this point, Google has only allowed address changes for <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"link\">non-gmail.com<\/a> addresses.<\/p>\n<p>Engadget reached out to Google for confirmation. We&#8217;ll update this story if we hear back.<\/p>\n<p>When the feature (presumably) rolls out broadly, you&#8217;ll change it through your account settings. Sign in to your Google account, then go to <strong>Manage your Google account &gt; Personal info &gt; Google Account email<\/strong>. If you don&#8217;t see the option to change it, then you&#8217;ll have to wait.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/computing\/you-may-soon-be-able-to-change-your-gmail-address-165633905.html?src=rss<\/p><p>Please credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\">OBA Blog<\/a> &raquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/27\/you-may-soon-be-able-to-change-your-gmail-address\/\">You may soon be able to change your Gmail address<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected. The support page (translated) says that &#8220;the ability to change your Google Account email address is gradually rolling out to all users.&#8221; The change was first spotted on a Google Pixel forum on Telegram and was first reported in the press by 9to5Google. Google hasn&#8217;t made a formal announcement about the change. The English version of the support page still says you usually can&#8217;t change your @gmail.com address. Up to this point, Google has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}