There are many good reasons to change your Gmail email address without going to the trouble of creating a new account. Maybe ...

There are plenty of good reasons why you might want to change your email account. You want or need to change email providers, you hate your current email address, or you’ve become inundated with spam.

Republished on December 25 with the implications of responses to a new U.S. government warning and advice on staying safe on Gmail and changing your email address in 2025. Your inbox is under attack.

To keep Gmail from running out of storage space, delete spam and unread emails. Similarly, delete unwanted files from Google Drive and Photos to save cloud storage. If you don’t want to lose your data ...

Gain 15GB of free Gmail space by moving all old emails to a new archive account. Before migrating, use Google Takeout to safely back up your existing files and media. Implement POP3 forwarding on your ...

Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...

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