Gmail has good news for anyone who regrets their email address. For the first time in the platform's 22-year history, account holders now have the ability to change their Gmail address name.

How many times have you wanted to change your Gmail address? For over 20 years, the answer was always the same: you couldn't. That username you created in middle school or college was locked in ...

All Google users in the U.S. now can change their Gmail usernames included in their email addresses. The tech company began rolling out the feature last year, but now is available to all U.S. users, ...

Are you still stuck with that embarrassing Gmail address from college or an address that contains an old name you’d rather forget? Google might finally let you change it. The company hasn’t made an ...

For years, one of the most frustrating limits inside the Google ecosystem was simple but painful. You could not change your primary Gmail address without creating a brand-new account. That meant ...

Depending on when you signed up for a Gmail account, and factoring in the uniqueness or otherwise of your name, your email address may be one you are happy with, or it could feel like a burden. If you ...

Keyboard warriors wishing to change a longstanding email address via Gmail might soon be in luck thanks to a potential update. Some users of the email platform could get a chance to replace their ...

Google is inching closer to letting users change their Gmail.com email addresses. The company has updated its English-language support page with instructions on how to do so. It also notes that this ...

Gmail users will soon be able to change email address. Updated December 28 with an email access countdown clock that Gmail users need to watch, news of another forthcoming Google update leaked through ...

Google is rolling out a new feature that allows users in the U.S. to change their @gmail address or create a new alias. This feature was first spotted in October 2025 and showed up on some Google ...

Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages and services would not be lost. By Adeel Hassan For more than 20 years, ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...