Change the electronic mail address for your account

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

What this e-mail address is

  • When you're signed in, your electronic mail address shows next to your name and profile photograph. To find your email accost, select your Contour movie or initial.
  • You tin can sign in with it.
  • Information technology's where y'all go important information about most Google services you employ, unless you lot've added a contact e-mail.

Learn how to use dissimilar email addresses on your account.

Step 1: Cheque if yous tin change it

    1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Gmail app .
    2. At the pinnacle correct, tap your profile moving-picture show or initialand then Google Account. If yous don't utilise Gmail, go to myaccount.google.com.
  1. At the top, tap Personal info.
  2. Nether "Contact info," tap Email.
  3. Select Google Account email. If y'all can't open up this setting, it might not be possible to change your e-mail or username.
  • If your account's electronic mail address ends in @gmail.com, yous normally tin't alter information technology.
  • If you're using a Google Account through your work, school, or other grouping, ask your ambassador for assist.

Important: If yous use Sign in with Google for non-Google sites or Chrome Remote Desktop to connect remotely, view this info before yous alter your e-mail address.

Step 2: Alter it

  1. Next to your email address, select Edit Edit.
  2. Enter the new email address for your business relationship. Choose one that isn't already used by some other Google Account.
  • If you're having trouble, go to the get help changing your email address section.
  1. Follow the steps on the screen.

We'll ship an email with a verification link to your new email accost. You'll need to open up the email and click the link. If yous don't get the email, try fixing the problem.

Go help irresolute your email address

  • To switch from a Gmail address to a not-Gmail address, you lot need to delete your Gmail address. Larn more than about deleting your Gmail accost.
  • To switch from a non-Gmail address to a Gmail accost, add Gmail to your account. Learn how to add together Gmail to your account.
  • If the email address you desire is already an alternate e-mail, remove information technology in that location start.

Options if you can't change it

  • If you want to sign in with another email address, add it as an alternate email.
  • Learn how to check emails from other accounts in Gmail.
  • Create a Google Account with a dissimilar Gmail address.

Sign in with Google & Chrome Remote Desktop users

If you utilize Sign in with Google or Chrome Remote Desktop and you modify your primary email address for your Google account, yous may feel bug.

Some reasons you might alter your master e-mail address are:

  • Yous previously used a non-Gmail email address and you sign up for a Gmail account.
  • Yous have a Gmail account but create a new Gmail account to exist your chief business relationship.

Sign in with Google

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

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

Chrome Remote Desktop

If yous use Chrome Remote Desktop and modify your master email address, follow these steps to fix your remote connections:

  1. On the remote host machine, go to Chrome Remote Desktop.
  2. To disable any connections, under "This device," click or tap Delete.
  3. Afterwards y'all disable all connections, under "This device," click or tap Turn on.
  4. Follow the steps to reconnect with your new email address.

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