If you’ve ever regretted your Gmail address or felt it no longer represents you, Google may finally have a solution. The company appears to be preparing a long-requested feature that would let users change their Gmail address without losing access to existing emails or files.
The update was first noticed by the Google Pixel Hub community on Telegram and later highlighted by 9to5Google. According to a Hindi version of Gmail’s support documentation, Google is “gradually rolling out to all users” the option to change the email address associated with a Google account, including switching from one @gmail.com address to a new @gmail.com address.
If enabled, the feature would allow your old Gmail address to remain active as an alias. That means messages sent to the old address would still reach you, and you could sign in to Google services using either the old or the new email. One important limitation remains, though: after making the change, you wouldn’t be able to create another new Gmail address linked to your account for the next 12 months.
For now, this functionality hasn’t officially appeared in Google’s English-language support pages. As of Sunday afternoon, those still state that Gmail addresses ending in @gmail.com “usually can’t be changed,” recommending instead that users update the display name on the account or create a new address and manually transfer emails and contacts.
If the new option does roll out globally, it would mark a significant shift in how Google handles Gmail identities and solve a long-standing frustration for many users.
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