you can finally change your Gmail address

google just shipped a feature many of us have been asking for since forever: you can now change your primary Gmail address without losing your account, your emails, or your data. if you created your account back in 2009 with something like [email protected], today is a genuinely good day. what changed before this update, you could add alternate email addresses to your Google account as aliases, but your original address was locked in as the primary one. Google has changed that. you can now switch to any available @gmail.com username, and your old address automatically becomes an alias, so it still works for receiving mail and signing in. ...

March 31, 2026 · 3 min · Chris Achinga