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Anthony Spadafora

Hate your Gmail address? Google will finally let you swap your old one with a new one — here’s how

A smartphone with the Gmail logo on it resting on top of a computer keyboard.

After 22 years, Google will finally let you change your Gmail address, which is incredibly useful if you made yours back in 2007 when the service first became available to the general public.

First spotted in a Google support page last year, the search giant is now rolling out this new feature to Gmail users in the U.S. While the company has always allowed users to change aliases in their emails, up until now, they weren’t able to change the name that appears before @gmail.com in their email address.

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