Google Will Finally Allow You To Change Your Embarrassing High School Email Address With New Policy

Google will yet let you to alteration your embarrassing precocious schoolhouse email address.

The tech elephantine announced nan caller argumentation successful a YouTube video Tuesday.

“Tired of your aged Gmail address? Well, bully news. Google is rolling retired a measurement to alteration your Google Account username without starting over,” a typical from Google said successful nan video.

Gmail launched successful 2004, and a batch has changed successful nan past mates of decades. You whitethorn person picked a less-than-mature reside erstwhile you first sewage your Gmail account, aliases possibly you conscionable want to move it up aft truthful long.

Now you tin alteration your Gmail reside while keeping each your emails, information and relationship history.

The Google typical successful nan caller video explained really U.S. users tin make nan switch.

First, spell to your Google Account settings and pat “Personal info.” Tap “Email” and past “Google Account email.”

“If you spot nan ‘Change Google Account email’ option, pat it and prime a caller and unsocial username,” nan Google typical said. “Don’t interest astir your aged emails. Your original reside will enactment connected your relationship arsenic an alternate.”

Your aged email reside will stay active, and messages sent to that reside tin still scope you, nan video explained.

The typical did be aware that users tin only create a caller reside erstwhile each year. But if you extremity up missing your cringeworthy precocious schoolhouse address, you tin ever revert to it, Google said.

If you don’t spot an action to alteration your Gmail, it could beryllium that nan update hasn’t reached your relationship yet.

Google said it was simply answering to a request among its users pinch nan caller policy.

“‘Can you alteration your Gmail address?'” is nan top-searched ‘can you’ Gmail-related mobility complete nan past twelvemonth successful nan U.S. Now nan reply is yes,” a Google spokesperson said successful a connection shared by New York’s Pix11 News.

Some Gmail users took to X to inquire Google what took them truthful long.

“So you’re telling maine ‘coolboy123@gmail’ trauma could’ve been avoided??” 1 personification wrote.

Another said: “My 2009 Gmail reside has been embarrassing maine for 15 years and Google waited until NOW to show maine this.”

Others were wondering erstwhile Google would rotation retired nan update for world users. For now, it is only disposable for those successful nan US.