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Hate your old Gmail address? Google is quietly letting some people change it without losing data
A Hindi version of Google's support page suggests that Google is testing a service to let users change their Gmail addresses without sacrificing data.
A Google support page in Hindi says the ability to change your Gmail address is on the way. The feature would allow you to replace your current @ gmail.com address with another. Your old address would remain active as an alias on the account, and all your data would stick around, unaffected.
Google is testing out a new feature that lets users change their Gmail username without creating a new account. The update keeps all data, services and subscriptions intact while allowing a fresh @gmail.