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Good news for anyone tired of or embarrassed by their current Gmail address: You may soon be able to change it without losing access to your old emails and files.<\/p>\n
As first spotted by the Google Pixel Hub group on Telegram and subsequently reported in 9to5Google<\/a>, a Hindi version of the Gmail support website states that Google is \u201cgradually rolling out to all users\u201d the ability to change the email address tied to their Google account, including changing from their current Gmail address to \u201cto a new email address that ends in gmail.com<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n If you make the switch, your old Gmail address should still work as an alias, and you\u2019ll be able to sign into Google services with either your new or old address. However, you won\u2019t be able to create any additional Gmail addresses tied to your account for another 12 months.<\/p>\n As of Sunday afternoon, the English-language version of the support site<\/a> still states, \u201cIf your account\u2019s email address ends in @gmail.com, you usually can\u2019t change it\u201d and instead suggests changing the name<\/a> associated with the address or signing up for a new address and then transferring emails and contacts over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n