Change the electronic mail address for your account

In some cases, you can use a different electronic mail address (username) to identify your Google Account.

What this email address is

  • When you're signed in, your email address shows side by side to your name and profile photo. To find your email address, select your Profile picture or initial.
  • You can sign in with it.
  • It's where y'all become important information about most Google services yous use, unless y'all've added a contact email.

Larn how to use dissimilar email addresses on your account.

Pace i: Check if you can change information technology

  1. On your computer, go to your Google Account.
  2. On the left navigation panel, click Personal info.
  3. Under "Contact info," click E-mail.
  4. Select Google Account electronic mail. If you can't open this setting, it might not be possible to change your email or username.
    • If your business relationship'southward email address ends in @gmail.com, you usually can't change it.
    • If y'all're using a Google Business relationship through your work, school, or other grouping, ask your ambassador for help.

Of import: If you apply Sign in with Google for non-Google sites or Chrome Remote Desktop to connect remotely, view this info before you change your e-mail accost.

Step 2: Modify it

  1. Next to your email address, select Edit Edit.
  2. Enter the new email address for your account. Choose one that isn't already used by some other Google Account.
    • If you have trouble, learn more ways to change your email address.
  3. Follow the steps on the screen.

We'll transport an email with a verification link to your new email address. You'll need to open the email and click the link. If you don't get the email, try fixing the trouble.

Get aid irresolute your email address

  • To switch from a Gmail address to a not-Gmail accost, you demand to delete your Gmail address. Acquire more than almost deleting your Gmail address.
  • To switch from a not-Gmail accost to a Gmail address, add Gmail to your account. Learn how to add Gmail to your business relationship.
  • If the email address you want is already an alternating email, remove information technology at that place first.

Options if yous tin can't change it

  • If you desire to sign in with another email address, add together information technology as an alternate email.
  • Learn how to cheque emails from other accounts in Gmail.
  • Create a Google Account with a different Gmail accost.

Sign in with Google & Chrome Remote Desktop users

If you utilize Sign in with Google or Chrome Remote Desktop and you lot alter your primary electronic mail address for your Google account, you lot may experience problems.

Some reasons you might alter your main email accost are:

  • You previously used a non-Gmail email address and you sign upwards for a Gmail account.
  • Y'all have a Gmail account but create a new Gmail account to exist your main business relationship.

Sign in with Google

If you created an account with a non-Google site with Sign in with Google and you alter your chief email address, you lot may lose admission to the account you created on that non-Google site.

Tip: If you can't admission the account you created with a not-Google site, contact the non-Google site directly to recover your account.

Chrome Remote Desktop

If y'all use Chrome Remote Desktop and change your primary email address, follow these steps to ready your remote connections:

  1. On the remote host car, get to Chrome Remote Desktop.
  2. To disable any connections, under "This device," click or tap Delete.
  3. Subsequently you disable all connections, nether "This device," click or tap Plow on.
  4. Follow the steps to reconnect with your new email accost.

Related articles

  • Modify the name on your Google Account
  • Manage your email addresses
  • Alter your principal domain for Google Workspace

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