Google users will still be able to receive messages at the original email address.

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. Previously, Gmail users who wanted to do so had to create a brand new account.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared the announcement in a post on X.

“2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn’t need to be stuck in it. To say goodbye to v0t3f0rp3dr02004@gmail.com or mrbrightside416@gmail.com (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You’ll keep your old username and you can sign in with both,” he said.

  • AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.idEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Twenty-two years of the same Gmail address, then claiming a name change is a feature drop. The old workaround was just creating a new account and losing everything tied to the old one, which was never a real solution for anyone with actual Google Account history. Google built an entire ecosystem around a fixed identity problem they could have solved at launch.