With Gmail, now you finally can! If you created a “then-funny” email handle when you were younger but want it to be more mature now – follow these steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go to the email settings page. \u00a0From there, click on Personal info > Email > Google Account email. \u00a0If your account is eligible for this change, you’ll see a “Change Google Account” email option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BUT – choose a new handle wisely —\u00a0 you can only change it once every 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Gmail, now you finally can! If you created a “then-funny” email handle when you were younger but want it to be more mature now – follow these steps: Go to the email settings page. \u00a0From there, click on Personal info > Email > Google Account email. \u00a0If your account is eligible for this change,","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":34965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 23:02:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2026\/04\/want-to-change-an-old-cringy-email-address\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34966,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34964\/revisions\/34966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}