Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Google is inching closer to letting users change their Gmail.com email addresses.
The company has updated its English-language support page with instructions on how to do so.
It also notes that this feature is being rolled out gradually, so you might have to wait a while.
You’re generally out of luck if you’d like to change your Gmail address (ending in @gmail.com), forcing you to create a brand-new Google account instead. However, we recently saw evidence that Google could finally implement this functionality, and it looks like we’re ever closer to this possibility.
Google recently updated its English-language support page (h/t: Android Police) with instructions on how to change your Gmail address. This comes a few weeks after the company updated its Hindi-support page with these details.
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“If your Google Account email ends in gmail.com, you may be able to change it to another address that ends in @gmail.com,” the company explains. This differs from the previous version of the support page, which notes that you “usually can’t change” @gmail.com email addresses.
Want to change your Gmail.com email address? Google says you need to visit myaccount.google.com/google-account-email. You should then see the option to Change Google Account email. Don’t see this option? Then it’s not available for you just yet.
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