Modify the electronic mail address for your business relationship

In some cases, you lot tin can use a unlike email address (username) to identify your Google Account.

What this electronic mail address is

  • When y'all're signed in, your e-mail accost shows side by side to your name and profile photo. To find your email address, select your Contour flick or initial.
  • You can sign in with it.
  • It'due south where you get important information about well-nigh Google services yous use, unless you've added a contact email.

Learn how to utilize different email addresses on your account.

Stride 1: Check if you tin can change it

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open up your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Business relationship.

  2. At the top, tap Personal info.
  3. Nether "Contact info," tap Email.
  4. Tap Google Account email. If you can't open this setting, it might non be possible to change your email or username.
  • If your business relationship'due south email accost ends in @gmail.com, yous usually can't change it.
  • If yous're using a Google Account through your work, school, or other grouping, enquire your administrator for help.

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

Step 2: Change it

  1. Next to your e-mail address, select EditEdit.
  2. Enter the new email accost for your account. Choose one that isn't already used by another Google Account.
  • If you're having trouble, go help changing your email address.
  1. Follow the steps on the screen.

We'll send an email with a verification link to your new email accost. You'll need to open the email and click the link. If you don't get the email, effort fixing the problem.

Get help changing your email accost

  • To switch from a Gmail accost to a non-Gmail address, you need to delete your Gmail accost. Learn more virtually deleting your Gmail address.
  • To switch from a non-Gmail address to a Gmail address, add together Gmail to your account. Acquire how to add Gmail to your account.
  • If the electronic mail address you want is already an alternating email, remove it in that location first.

Options if you lot tin can't change information technology

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

Sign in with Google & Chrome Remote Desktop users

If you use Sign in with Google or Chrome Remote Desktop and y'all change your primary email address for your Google account, you may experience issues.

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

  • You previously used a non-Gmail electronic mail address and y'all sign upwardly for a Gmail business relationship.
  • You take a Gmail account just create a new Gmail account to exist your main account.

Sign in with Google

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

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

Chrome Remote Desktop

If you utilize Chrome Remote Desktop and change your primary email address, follow these steps to fix your remote connections:

  1. On the remote host automobile, go to Chrome Remote Desktop.
  2. To disable any connections, under "This device," click or tap Delete.
  3. Afterward you disable all connections, under "This device," click or tap Turn on.
  4. Follow the steps to reconnect with your new e-mail address.

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