By Kelvin Chan
Publication Date: 2026-04-04 09:01:00
Good news for people who regret the Gmail address they came up with when they registered for an account: Google is now letting users change it.
Google started quietly rolling out the change late last year in India and said this week in a blog post that it’s now available for all Google Account users in the United States. There were no details on when it would be available to users in other countries.
Google’s CEO suggested the update will be welcomed by people who want to keep their accounts but have outgrown the awkward, embarrassing, or nonsensical Gmail handles they created after the service launched 22 years ago.
“2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn’t need to be stuck in it,” Sundar Pichai wrote in a post on X, adding that the policy change means users could “say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time).”
The company also updated a help page to reflect the…