You may soon be able to change your Gmail address

Good quality for anyone bushed of oregon embarrassed by their existent Gmail address: You whitethorn soon beryllium capable to alteration it without losing entree to your aged emails and files.

As archetypal spotted by the Google Pixel Hub radical connected Telegram and subsequently reported successful 9to5Google, a Hindi mentation of the Gmail enactment website states that Google is “gradually rolling retired to each users” the quality to alteration the email code tied to their Google account, including changing from their existent Gmail code to “to a caller email code that ends successful gmail.com.”

If you marque the switch, your aged Gmail relationship should inactive enactment arsenic an alias, and you’ll beryllium capable to motion into Google services with either your caller oregon aged address. However, you won’t beryllium capable to make immoderate further Gmail addresses tied to your relationship for different 12 months.

As of Sunday afternoon, the English-language mentation of the enactment site inactive states, “If your account’s email code ends successful @gmail.com, you usually can’t alteration it” and alternatively suggests changing the name associated with the code oregon signing up for a caller code and past transferring emails and contacts over.