Overview
- Support documentation confirms the capability is gradually rolling out and is not yet available to all accounts, with the English help page still showing older guidance.
- When you switch, the original @gmail.com becomes an alias that continues to receive mail, and either address can be used to sign in to Gmail, Drive, YouTube, Maps, and other services.
- Account contents stay intact, though the prior address may persist in older instances such as previously created Calendar events, and users can still send from the old address.
- Google limits changes to three per account and imposes a 12‑month period during which you cannot create another new @gmail.com address for that account or delete the newly chosen one.
- The update surfaced first on a Hindi support page spotted by users in the Google Pixel Hub Telegram group and reported by 9to5Google, with no formal company announcement or global timing yet.