Now you can change your Gmail username. Right here’s methods to do it.

Google first unveiled Gmail to the general public on April 1, 2004. Now, 22 years later, Google is lastly letting some Gmail customers change their account’s username whereas retaining every thing else of their account.

The flexibility for Gmail customers to vary their username was first teased by Google late final 12 months. And now, as of Tuesday, each Gmail consumer within the U.S. can formally change their username — that is the half that comes earlier than the “@gmail.com” – to no matter they need, so long as the brand new username is offered.

Other than the username, every thing else with the account stays the identical. All emails and information related to the previous username will live on within the account for the brand new username.

What occurs to your previous Gmail deal with? Google says it should retain that username for the consumer in order that emails despatched to that previous deal with proceed to reach to the brand new username’s inbox. 

So, are you prepared to vary that Gmail username you created whilst you had been nonetheless in highschool? Here is methods to do it.

How you can change your Gmail username

When you’re a Gmail consumer within the U.S., the choice to vary your Gmail username whereas retaining the identical account is now open to you.

To vary your username, merely go to your Settings whereas signed into your Google account. Subsequent, go to Private data, adopted by E mail, after which Google Account electronic mail.

Eligible accounts will then see a button labeled “Change Google Account electronic mail” on this web page. Faucet that button after which choose a brand new username.

Please observe, Gmail customers can solely change their username as soon as each 12 months. So, when you choose a brand new username, you are caught with it for not less than a 12 months. However that may sound like a fairly brief timeframe when you had been one of many unlucky customers caught together with your earlier Gmail username for 22 years.