By Nilesh Christopher
Publication Date: 2025-12-26 20:59:00
Google has finally answered users’ cries, allowing Gmail users to swap out embarrassing teenage email addresses.
Gmail account holders can now change their existing @gmail.com address while retaining their data and services.
Once changed, old email addresses will remain active, and users will continue to receive emails sent to both the old and new addresses.
Saved data connected to earlier addresses, including photos, messages and emails, will not be affected.
The ability to change Google Account email addresses is gradually rolling out to all users, and is not immediately available to everyone, Google noted on its support page.
Gmail users who want to switch to more anonymous email addresses or felt burdened by the email addresses they chose as kids celebrated the update on social media.
“Feature needed: 2005. Feature arriving: 2025. Gap: two decades of suffering,” one user posted on X.
“So all those years of ‘cool’ usernames and cringe emails can be erased… shame it…
