{"id":234367,"date":"2026-03-31T23:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-now-allows-you-to-change-your-gmail-com-address"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:24:39","slug":"google-now-allows-you-to-change-your-gmail-com-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-now-allows-you-to-change-your-gmail-com-address","title":{"rendered":"Google now allows you to change your @gmail.com address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-now-allows-you-to-change-your-gmail-com-address.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google is rolling out a new feature that allows users in the U.S. to change their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmail\">@gmail<\/a> address or create a new alias.<\/p>\n<p>This feature was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-will-finally-allow-you-to-change-your-gmailcom-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spotted<\/a> in October 2025 and showed up on some Google accounts by the end of the year, but it was not available in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products-and-platforms\/products\/workspace\/google-account-username-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">says<\/a> you can customize your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gmail\">@gmail<\/a> address in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is rolling out a new feature that allows users in the U.S. to change their @gmail address or create a new alias. This feature was first spotted in October 2025 and showed up on some Google accounts by the end of the year, but it was not available in the United States. Starting today, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}