Sign in to your Google Account with another email accost

When y'all create a Google Account, yous automatically become a Gmail accost. But if you'd rather use another email accost to sign in, you lot can link a not-Gmail email address to the account and use it to sign in, recover your countersign, get notifications, and more.

When choosing an alternating email, follow these requirements:

  • You tin can't apply a Gmail accost.
  • You tin can't use an email address that's already linked to another Google Account.
  • Recollect to utilize your Google Account password when signing in using this email accost.

Important: The steps below utilize only to an existing Google Account. Larn how to create a new Google account with an alternate email address.

Add an alternating electronic mail address

  1. Open your Google Account. You might need to sign in.
  2. Select Personal info.
  3. Under "Contact info," clickElectronic mail.
  4. Side by side to "Alternate emails," select Add alternate email or Add other email.  You may demand to sign in again.
    • If you lot're using an account through your work or schoolhouse, yous might not see this selection. Ask your administrator for assist.
  5. Enter an email address you own. Select Add.

We'll send an email with a verification link to your alternate email address. You'll need to open up the email and click the link earlier you can sign in to your account with the alternating address. Y'all might non go the electronic mail right away.

If you can't find the message, come across our tips to notice the verification email or request a new 1.

Remove alternating electronic mail addresses

  1. Open up your Google Account. You lot might need to sign in.
  2. Select Personal info.
  3. Under "Contact info," clickEmail.
  4. ClickAlternate emails. Y'all might need to sign in again.
  5. Adjacent to the alternate email accost you want to remove, click Remove Remove.

See which usernames you can remove from your Google Account.

When people might see your Gmail accost instead of your alternate e-mail accost

When people share things with your alternating e-mail address, they will sometimes meet your principal Google Business relationship electronic mail (Gmail) address listed instead. Some examples include:

  • Google Docs: When someone shares content, like a document, with your alternate electronic mail address, your Gmail accost volition show instead of the alternating address.
  • Google Sites: When someone shares a site with your alternate email address, your Gmail accost volition evidence instead of your alternate address.
  • Calendar: When y'all answer to invitations forwarded from your alternate accost, the consequence organizer will run across the responses come from your Gmail address.
  • Google Keep: When someone shares a note with your alternate email address, your Gmail address will evidence instead of your alternate address.
  • Google Groups: If you remove an alternate email accost that was office of a group, your Gmail address might bear witness up instead.
  • Google Ads: When you accept an invitation to employ a Google Ads account with your alternating email address, your Gmail address and your alternate email address will show on the business relationship access page.

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