Tip: Change your Gmail address WITHOUT losing your existing Google application data!

 

Here is another Gmail/Google tip from Jeff Su's email newsletter. This tip is not about technology and learning, but if you have a Gmail address you no longer like, and you want to change it without losing all of your Google application data, now you can!

NOTE: Jeff mentions Gmail "aliases." These can also be useful. Read more about Gmail aliases here.

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Tip #2: Change your Gmail address

This is the one I'm most excited about. If you created your Gmail address in 2006 and it's something like EarthShakerxx@gmail.com (uh…for example obviously, I didn’t pick an alias based on a Dota character…) you no longer have to live with that decision.

Google now lets you change your actual Gmail address while keeping everything intact: your Drive files, YouTube subscriptions, Calendar, all of it.

So, here's a better way:

1. Go to myaccount.google.com​
2. Click Personal info > Email > Google Account email
3. Click your email address
4. Select Change your Google Account email
5. Pick your new address

Your old address automatically becomes an alias, so emails sent to your old address still arrive in your inbox. No one even needs to know you changed it.

 A couple things to know: it’s still being rolled out, you can only do this once every 12 months, with a lifetime max of 3 changes. So choose wisely.