Chances are you’ll quickly have the ability to change your Gmail tackle

A Google assist web page in Hindi says the power to vary your Gmail tackle is on the way in which. The function would assist you to exchange your present @gmail.com tackle with one other. Your outdated tackle would stay energetic as an alias on the account, and all of your knowledge would stick round, unaffected.

The support page (translated) says that “the power to vary your Google Account e mail tackle is progressively rolling out to all customers.” The change was first noticed on a Google Pixel forum on Telegram and was first reported within the press by 9to5Google.

Google hasn’t made a proper announcement in regards to the change. The English model of the assist web page nonetheless says you often cannot change your @gmail.com tackle. Up so far, Google has solely allowed tackle adjustments for non-gmail.com addresses.

Engadget reached out to Google for affirmation. We’ll replace this story if we hear again.

When the function (presumably) rolls out broadly, you may change it by way of your account settings. Sign up to your Google account, then go to Handle your Google account > Private data > Google Account e mail. For those who do not see the choice to vary it, you then’ll have to attend.