How To Change Your Email Address On GMail

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❌ You can change your Gmail address with a new Gmail account. If that's not really what you want, you'll need to see which workaround you can live with.
❌ Changing your email address on GMail
To change your Gmail address, you have to create a new Google account, leaving you with two separate accounts and email addresses. Workarounds include using a desktop email program like Thunderbird to access both accounts, or Gmail’s “Check mail from other accounts” feature to import emails from the old to the new.
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0:00 Change Email Address On GMail
O:20 You can't do it directly
2:10 Workaround 1- Desktop email
2:50 Workaround 2- Check mail from other accounts
3:30 Check both accounts
4:15 See all settings
5:00 Gmailify
5:25 POP3
6:10 Two factor identification
7:05 Sending email
7:40 Send mail as
10:00 All your other Google services
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@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

It’s easy - just not what most people expect.

@bobissik3478 4 ай бұрын

Excellent pedagog. Clearly explained. Awesome job !

@STONE69_ 6 ай бұрын

Good idea Leo, this is very useful information.

@gergemall 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Leo.❤

@David.M. 6 ай бұрын

This is something I didn't know. I did create a second gmail account, but had one of them forward all of it's email to the other. That seems to work as well. Thanks Leo

@SpiritintheSky. 6 ай бұрын

Good advice worth putting into practice.

@manoellopes8071 6 ай бұрын

Great video.

@Cmorebutt 3 ай бұрын

Amazing that is!!!

@KazrBrekker 6 ай бұрын

Not true. Microsoft offers aliases and I can easily choose whatever email I wanna set as my primary email. Gmail doesn't offer that feature

@HartmutWSager 6 ай бұрын

Exactly! That's one thing Microsoft got right in their Hotmail/Live/Outlook mail system. Not only can you have up to 10 aliases, but making any one of them primary (rendering the current primary to secondary) is brilliant.

@noahadad-8478 3 ай бұрын

Hello and thank you Leo. My question is, if i create a new acount which i only want for emails, will i have to chenge my acount on my phone also? will it make problems for me a log the way after if i keep the user name and acount for all my phone things? also i didnt quite get what u said about the pssword, but i didnt get there yet, i hhope to understand while i will try opening the new one.

@shadowminister4090 6 ай бұрын

Hi Leo, I have 2 Gmail accounts on my smartphone. It's a bit of a pain. I'm aware of the Pop 3 option, however, haven't used it, yet. I manually unsubscribed and unsubscribed to my KZfaq feeds, but it all became too hard when it came to Photos! Then, to make things worse, I have a Samsung phone and because Samsung wants to have its own ecosphere on your phone too, I have 3 Calenders and 3 Photos on my phone. 😱 My wife also has 2 emails, however, only has 1 on her phone. Good smart. except, she misses emails on her 2nd account, because she never uses the desktop computer. 😂

@roscored1000 6 ай бұрын

hi Leo i forward all gmail to another domain account for work and all emails from that domain {from work account } to gmail, so i can see all emails on the road, it causes a lot of mail-demone loops. Is there a tidier way to see both without the loops? thanks for the tips

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

Yup, that's a loop. Rather than fowarding, I'd look into using POP3 access to have one account fetch from the other.

@drescherjm 6 ай бұрын

How is the space handled for Pop3 or Gmailify? My primary Gmail account is always close to the 15GB limit and the interface keeps asking me to pay for extra storage.

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

The email is added to your Gmail account, so yes, it counts.

@Gralro 6 ай бұрын

I think you could use POP3 to take the email out of Gmail and save it locally on your machine via an email client like Mozilla Thunderbird. So you would save space but the emails would only be available in whatever email client you are using on your computer. That could be dangerous because it means the email is no longer backed up in Gmail which is similar to IMAP. If its deleted from POP3 and its not in Gmail, its gone.

@kazaabitboll2026 3 ай бұрын

I just want to make.some.of the letters capital ones, can that be done same spelling?

@askleonotenboom 3 ай бұрын

You don't need to change your email address for that. Email addresses are case-insensitive. leo@askleo.com is exactly the same as LeO@aSkLeO.cOm.

@F-P-5™ 6 ай бұрын

Hey there Leo!, I would like to ask a question (again) about my Gmail, I've deleted it before and now I'm wondering why it's still there in my epic games account, I have been informed that google is deleted inactive accounts, but does deleted accounts count as well?

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

I'm not quite sure I understand the question and how Epic Games relates. If you used your gmail address there, Google CAN'T remove it there -- you have to go to your epic games account and configure a new email.

@user-do9ju1sk6v 6 ай бұрын

? How can the questioner access Epic Games without their historic Gmail logon details. @@askleonotenboom

@F-P-5™ 6 ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom no my question is does Google delete deleted Gmail accounts that aren't in use but are still linked to other services such as epic games

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

@@F-P-5™ Then what do you mean by "linked"? If YOU delete a Gmail account, activity no longer comes into the picture -- you deleted it.

@F-P-5™ 6 ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom just ignore my other comments sir. Then why does it say that my account that I have DELETED still active?

@billgross3579 6 ай бұрын

Why not just add an alias to the old account and use that in place of your original email address?

@colleensherman-williams3565 29 күн бұрын

I Dont know my old password to put in

@iswarrand.sivaraj6262 4 ай бұрын

can i delete my old account after i set and send old gmail into the new gmail ? and what will be happen to the apps that are sign into my old gmail and delete the old gmail account.

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

If you delete an account it's gone. Apps don't work any more. And there's no forwarding from a closed account. Better would be to leave the account active, but set up an auto-forward rule yourself.

@JoWalkabout 3 ай бұрын

I created a new email address and google linked all my google accounts to it and now I can't change it back. It won't even recognize my original email address.

@sbrave 4 ай бұрын

When I try to change the email address, I get a message saying the email is in use by another account, but I have no idea what account it's being used for. I think I made a temp Google profile 10 years ago, but I have no idea what it is. I'm trying to cancel my old Earthlink account bc it's now $10/mo, but it's the address connected to Google. Am I SOL?

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

Not quite sure what you're seeing. If someone else made that email address, then no you can't get it. It belongs to them. If YOU made it, then I would try to sign in to it, perhaps using "forgot password" to recover access.

@sbrave 4 ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom I made the account some years ago and may have just found it, and can log in. If I go to the option to delete this other account, it's telling me x amount of emails, etc will be deleted. It's confusing bc the gmail emails that are shown to be deleted are the same ones I see in my current mac mail app, so if I delete this account, am I also deleting the email address? I'm confused between the gmail account itself and a gmail address. Are they always tied together? What happens if I delete this "another account" do I lose all the emails I have? How would that account then be able to be used for my current one? This whole thing is really a sh!t show, lol All I want to do is change the sign in info (email) for my current account so I can get rid of my old Earthlink account, once and for all

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

@@sbraveYes. A gmail account IS a gmail address. And vice versa.

@sbrave 4 ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom so what happens if I delete the newly found google account and add that email address to my current google account as the login? Would I still be able to use the email address that I assigned to this other account?

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

@@sbrave You can't "add that email address to my current google account". Each account has one email address, and each email address is a unique account.

@Riazahmed-nb6lu 14 сағат бұрын

can i change my email address due to my payment hurdles from a old to new account?

@askleonotenboom 2 сағат бұрын

No idea what "payment hurdles" means.

@mikedavis2969 6 ай бұрын

I can't delete my Administrator account. Why ?

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

No idea. I'd have to know which account is the administrator account, EXACTLY how you try to delete it (there are several ways), and EXACTLY what happens when you try. Maybe submit a detailed question to askleo.com/ask

@mikedavis2969 6 ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom My main account is the administrator account .