If you’ve ever wanted to change your Gmail address at some point in the past (probably to make it sound more professional or less cringe), then you might have already learned that Google generally does not allow users to modify their “@gmail.com” address. That being said though, new information online shows that this might change soon.
A recently-discovered support page shows that users will soon be able to switch to a new Gmail username without losing their data—under this new system, a user’s original email address becomes an alias, meaning that they will still receive messages sent to the old address and can use it to sign in, with photos, emails, and drive files remaining intact as well.
There are some restrictions however; users can only change their address up to three times, and once a change is made, they cannot modify or delete the new address for 12 months. It should be noted that the feature was originally spotted in Google’s Hindi language support page, and as such has not rolled out globally at the moment.
