Manage your electronic mail addresses

Choose which email addresses you use to practise things like sign in to your Google Account, get back into your business relationship if you lose admission, and get information from Google.

Google Business relationship email

This is the principal email accost for your Google Business relationship. It's prepare as your main email when you create a Google Account, just you can choose a unlike primary email if you similar.

To change your Google Account e-mail:

  1. On your Android telephone or tablet, open up your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the summit, tap Personal info.
  3. Nether "Contact info," tap Email.
  4. Tap Google Account email.
    • If y'all tin can't open this setting, information technology might non exist possible to modify your electronic mail or username. Learn more near irresolute your username.
  5. Follow the steps on the screen.

Other email addresses

About me emails

These email addresses are from your "About me" page. Yous can command who sees these email addresses across Google products like Drive, Photos, and Google+.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the top, tap Personal info.
  3. Under "Choose what others come across," tap Become to About me.
  4. Under "Personal contact info" or "Work contact info," tap Edit Edit.
    • If you don't meet the relevant section, at the lesser right, tap Add info Add info.
  5. Under "Electronic mail," add, edit, or remove your email accost.
  6. Tap OK.

Learn more than about controlling what others see about you across Google products.

Alternate emails

You can add a non-Gmail email address to your account and employ it to sign in, recover your countersign, and more.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device'southward Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the peak, tap Personal info.
  3. Under "Contact info," tap Email.
  4. Under "Alternating emails," tap Add alternating email or Add other email.
  5. Enter an e-mail address y'all own. Tap Add.

Learn more almost alternating emails and how they're used.

Recovery e-mail

Add together a recovery email address to get back into your account quickly and securely if yous forget your password or get locked out.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Business relationship.

  2. At the elevation, tap Security.
  3. Under "Ways we can verify information technology's you," tap Recovery email.
  4. Follow the steps on the screen.

Learn more about account recovery options.

Contact electronic mail

Google notifies you at your contact email address when there is important information that you demand to know most your Google Account or the products you use, such as YouTube. By default, Google uses your Google Account email for contacting y'all unless you add a contact electronic mail.

This email address can be from any email provider, but it should exist one you check frequently.

  1. On your Android phone or tablet, open your device's Settings appand then Google and then Manage your Google Account.

  2. At the tiptop, tap Personal info.
  3. Nether "Contact info," tap Electronic mail.
  4. Tap Contact e-mail.
  5. TapAdd other electronic mail.
  6. Enter an electronic mail address you own, and then tapAdd together.

Important: Some Google products all the same use your Google Account email even if you add a contact e-mail.

When nosotros'll send you emails

Nosotros'll utilize your email address to communicate with you in certain situations. For example, we'll email you lot when we demand to:

  • Help you access your account when you tin can't sign in or forget your countersign.
  • Send y'all of import security-related data most your account, like when there's unusual activity with your email accost.
  • Send you updates about your account, like when y'all're running out of storage infinite or when we've made a policy change.
  • Deliver a receipt for your Play Shop purchase.
  • Send you updates about Google products and services that you've asked to receive.

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