Change the email address for your business relationship

In some cases, you can utilize a different email address (username) to identify your Google Account.

What this email address is

  • When you're signed in, your email address shows next to your name and profile photograph. To find your email address, select your Profile picture show or initial.
  • You can sign in with it.
  • It's where you get of import information about most Google services yous use, unless you've added a contact email.

Learn how to use different email addresses on your account.

Step 1: Check if y'all can change it

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

  2. At the meridian, tap Personal info.
  3. Under "Contact info," tap Electronic mail.
  4. Tap Google Account email. If y'all can't open this setting, it might not exist possible to modify your electronic mail or username.
  • If your business relationship'southward email address ends in @gmail.com, you lot usually can't modify it.
  • If y'all're using a Google Account through your work, schoolhouse, or other group, ask your ambassador for assist.

Important: If y'all utilise Sign in with Google for non-Google sites or Chrome Remote Desktop to connect remotely, view this info earlier you modify your e-mail accost.

Step two: Change it

  1. Adjacent to your electronic mail address, select EditEdit.
  2. Enter the new email address for your account. Choose one that isn't already used past another Google Business relationship.
  • If you're having problem, get help irresolute your email address.
  1. Follow the steps on the screen.

We'll send an electronic mail with a verification link to your new email address. You'll need to open up the email and click the link. If you lot don't get the email, try fixing the problem.

Get help changing your email accost

  • To switch from a Gmail address to a non-Gmail address, you demand to delete your Gmail address. Learn more than most deleting your Gmail accost.
  • To switch from a non-Gmail address to a Gmail address, add Gmail to your account. Acquire how to add together Gmail to your account.
  • If the email address you want is already an alternating email, remove information technology in that location first.

Options if y'all can't change it

  • If you want to sign in with another email address, add it as an alternate e-mail.
  • Larn how to cheque emails from other accounts in Gmail.
  • Create a Google Business relationship with a different Gmail address.

Sign in with Google & Chrome Remote Desktop users

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

Some reasons you might change your primary electronic mail accost are:

  • You previously used a non-Gmail email address and yous sign upward for a Gmail account.
  • You have a Gmail business relationship but create a new Gmail account to be your main account.

Sign in with Google

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

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

Chrome Remote Desktop

If you use Chrome Remote Desktop and change your primary electronic mail address, follow these steps to fix your remote connections:

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

Related articles

  • Change the name on your Google Business relationship
  • Manage your email addresses
  • Modify your primary domain for Google Workspace

Was this helpful?

How tin we improve information technology?