Soon it will be possible to change your email address without losing your data. This is the Christmas ‘gift’ that Google is working on for Gmail users. According to an update on Google’s support page – for now only in Hindi and which suggests that the rollout of the new feature could begin in India and in countries that use the Hindi language – it will be possible replace your Gmail address with a new onemaintaining all data and services. “Once the switch is made, old email addresses will remain active and users will continue to receive messages sent to both the old and new addresses,” writes the Los Angeles Times.
How competitors work
Competing services such as Microsoft Outlook, observes the US newspaper, have long made it possible to easily change the main address by adding an ‘alias’. Google only allows the change for accounts that end in @gmail.com, and the new address must also end in @gmail.com. While users can reuse their old Google Account email address at any time, once the change is made, it will not be possible to register another email address for the same account for the next 12 months.
How it works now waiting for the changes
For now, CNBC reminds us, “users who want a new Gmail address must create a new account and manually transfer their data through a complicated and risky process, which can compromise integrations with third-party applications.”