Alter the e-mail address for your account

In some cases, you tin can use a different email address (username) to place your Google Account.

What this email accost is

  • When you lot're signed in, your email accost shows adjacent to your name and profile photo. To find your electronic mail accost, select your Profile moving-picture show or initial.
  • Y'all can sign in with it.
  • It'south where you get important information well-nigh most Google services you use, unless you've added a contact e-mail.

Acquire how to use different email addresses on your account.

Step ane: Cheque if you tin can change it

    1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
    2. At the tiptop right, tap your profile pic or initialand then Google Account. If you don't use Gmail, go to myaccount.google.com.
  2. At the tiptop, tap Personal info.
  3. Nether "Contact info," tap Email.
  4. Select Google Account electronic mail. If you tin't open this setting, it might not be possible to change your email or username.
  • If your account's e-mail address ends in @gmail.com, you usually can't change it.
  • If you're using a Google Business relationship through your work, school, or other group, enquire your ambassador for assist.

Important: If you lot utilize Sign in with Google for non-Google sites or Chrome Remote Desktop to connect remotely, view this info before you change your email address.

Stride 2: Change it

  1. Next to your electronic mail address, select Edit Edit.
  2. Enter the new electronic mail address for your account. Choose one that isn't already used past another Google Business relationship.
  • If you're having trouble, go to the go aid changing your email accost department.
  1. Follow the steps on the screen.

Nosotros'll ship an email with a verification link to your new e-mail address. You lot'll demand to open the electronic mail and click the link. If y'all don't get the email, try fixing the problem.

Go assistance changing your email address

  • To switch from a Gmail address to a not-Gmail address, you lot need to delete your Gmail address. Learn more nearly deleting your Gmail address.
  • To switch from a non-Gmail address to a Gmail address, add together Gmail to your account. Learn how to add together Gmail to your account.
  • If the e-mail address you want is already an alternate email, remove information technology there first.

Options if you can't change it

  • If y'all want to sign in with another electronic mail accost, add together it every bit an alternate electronic mail.
  • Learn how to cheque emails from other accounts in Gmail.
  • Create a Google Account with a different Gmail address.

Sign in with Google & Chrome Remote Desktop users

If you apply Sign in with Google or Chrome Remote Desktop and you modify your principal email address for your Google account, yous may experience issues.

Some reasons you might change your principal email accost are:

  • You previously used a non-Gmail electronic mail address and you sign up for a Gmail account.
  • Yous have a Gmail account but create a new Gmail account to be your chief account.

Sign in with Google

If you created an account with a not-Google site with Sign in with Google and you modify your primary email address, you may lose access to the account you created on that not-Google site.

Tip: If y'all tin't access the account yous created with a non-Google site, contact the non-Google site directly to recover your account.

Chrome Remote Desktop

If you lot use Chrome Remote Desktop and change your primary email address, follow these steps to set up your remote connections:

  1. On the remote host machine, go to Chrome Remote Desktop.
  2. To disable whatsoever connections, under "This device," click or tap Delete.
  3. After you disable all connections, nether "This device," click or tap Plough on.
  4. Follow the steps to reconnect with your new electronic mail address.

Related manufactures

  • Change the name on your Google Business relationship
  • Manage your electronic mail addresses
  • Alter your principal domain for Google Workspace

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