Олександр Кузьменко That's Life 25 December 2025, 14:33

The end of the era of "nagibators". Google will allow you to change your Gmail email address

It looks like Google is introducing a new option that will finally allow users to change their email address created in Gmail.

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The end of the era of "nagibators". Google will allow you to change your Gmail email address

It looks like Google is introducing a new option that will finally allow users to change their email address created in Gmail.

Google has long allowed users to change their account email address if they use a third-party email address, but users with an «@gmail.com» address cannot change it, 9to5Google reports.

On the service’s support page, which states that a user cannot change their email address, we noticed a detailed description of the feature, which is «rolling out gradually.» For now, it is only available on the Hindi version of the page .

«The email address associated with your Google Account is the address you use to sign in to Google services. This email address helps you and others identify your account. If you want, you can change your Google Account email address that ends in gmail.com to a new email address that ends in gmail.com,» the description says.

After changing, the original email address will still receive emails to the same mailbox as the new one and will work for signing in, but access to your Google Account will not change. Users will not be able to change or delete their email for 12 months after changing their address.

Each account will only be able to change its «@gmail.com» address three times, for a total of four addresses.

Google also warns that the old Gmail address will still appear in some cases, but the new one won’t immediately appear in some tabs, such as Calendar entries created before the change. Users will be able to send emails from the old address and will retain control over it — it can’t be taken over by other users.

This feature will be useful to users who created an email in Gmail in their youth, but over time it has become the main one for a Google account, to which many services are tied.