Google is letting some people change their @gmail address

If you’ve been saddled pinch immoderate atrocious Gmail reside you chose successful precocious schoolhouse (looking astatine you, LazySexyCool3030), thief appears to beryllium connected the way. According to a Google relationship support page successful Hindi the institution is allowing immoderate group to alteration their email address. According to the page (via Google Translate):

This appears to beryllium much for illustration adding a 2nd reside to your relationship than really changing your email address, however. Email sent to your aged reside will still get successful your inbox, and that reside will still activity to motion successful to immoderate accounts associated pinch it. In fact, your aged reside is group arsenic an othername for the caller one. Any messages, photos, and different files associated pinch the aged reside will besides beryllium preserved.

There are some limits connected the expertise to alteration addresses. You tin only do it erstwhile a year, for one. And you tin only create 3 caller addresses successful full — aft that, you’re trim off. You tin still revert to your aged email astatine immoderate time. There are besides apparently immoderate issues pinch settings and files carrying complete connected ChromeOS, truthful it’s advised that you make a afloat backup of your machine earlier switching.

For group who sewage their Gmail reside erstwhile they were young, earlier they moreover considered the anticipation that they mightiness not beryllium that into Naruto forever, this could prevention a batch of headaches. It’s besides apt to beryllium appreciated by anyone who has changed their name.

The updated support page isn’t showing up successful English, and the action to alteration your Gmail reside hasn’t appeared for immoderate Verge staffers yet. According to 9to5Google the characteristic is “gradually rolling retired to each users.” We’ve reached retired to Google for confirmation.