{"id":376453,"date":"2025-12-30T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376453\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:33:10","slug":"google-may-let-gmail-users-change-their-email-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376453\/","title":{"rendered":"Google may let Gmail users change their email addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have an embarrassing or outdated Gmail address, you may soon be able to change that \u2014 without losing all your files and records. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/12\/24\/google-change-gmail-addresses\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tech site 9to5Google reported<\/a> that it appears <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google<\/a> may be rolling out the ability to change the address of your gmail.com email without losing all your files. <\/p>\n<p>9to5Google reported that the change was discovered on a Hindi-language <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/19870?dark=0&amp;sjid=13129471057818824497-NA&amp;hl=hi#zippy\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">support forum page<\/a> but that the ability was &#8220;gradually rolling out to all users.&#8221; Read the translated forum page:<\/p>\n<p>\n            Mashable Light Speed\n        <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The email address associated with your Google Account is the address you use to sign in to Google services. This email address helps you and others identify your account. If you\u2019d like, you can change your Google Account email address that ends in gmail.com to a new email address that ends in gmail.com.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the change has not been confirmed just yet. In fact, the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/accounts\/answer\/19870?dark=0&amp;sjid=13129471057818824497-NA&amp;hl=en#zippy\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" title=\"(opens in a new window)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">English-language version<\/a> of the support page still reads, &#8220;if your account&#8217;s email address ends in @gmail.com, you usually can&#8217;t change it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if your Gmail address is from middle school and a little embarrassing, you might be able to change it soon. But it&#8217;s not quite guaranteed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you have an embarrassing or outdated Gmail address, you may soon be able to change that \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-376453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}