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It's ~2026 –. ChatGPT still doesn't allow email change

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59 points amukbils | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 23:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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QuiCasseRien ◴[08 Dec 25 23:42 UTC] No.46199265[source]▶
You're kidding ?

I created an google account, use it on my android smartphone and buy some app, many years ago.

It's 2026 and Google still doesn't allow email change.

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danpalmer ◴[08 Dec 25 23:45 UTC] No.46199304[source]▶
What do you mean? I've changed my email on my Google account a bunch of times.
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1. reorder9695 ◴[08 Dec 25 23:49 UTC] No.46199354[source]▶
Google only allows email changes if you didn't create it with a gmail address. When I found this out years ago I immediately scrapped that account and created a new one with a non gmail address before there was too much on the original account.
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2. danpalmer ◴[09 Dec 25 00:39 UTC] No.46199830[source]▶
That might be technically true, but in practice not an issue. I have a Gmail account, so the primary address is fixed because the address is the account, however I use a different address to sign-in, and Google recognises those addresses as being on that account. For pretty much all uses my account has a different email address.