Ashamed of your gmail address? Now you will be able to change it

Most importantly, the old address does not disappear. After the change, the old Gmail is set as an alias, so you will continue to receive emails at both addresses, and everything you have in your account, Gmail, Drive, Photos and the rest, remains the same. Google also states that you can log in to Google services with both the old and the new address.

There are also limitations. After the change, you cannot open a new Gmail address for that account for the next 12 months, and you cannot delete the new address during the same period. According to the support text reported by the media, the account can change the @gmail.com address up to three times in total.

If you are wondering how to check if you have the option, the way is through the Google Account settings: Personal info then Email, where the item for changing the email address of the Google account should appear, but for many it will not appear yet because the rollout is gradual.

For now, there is no big official Google announcement for the whole world, so it is realistic to expect that the details will still change. But moreć and this step shows that for the first time Google is relaxing one of the oldest “hard” rules of Gmail, which is that your address is the same forever.