Google has finally responded to customer complaints by enabling Gmail users to change their awkward teenage email names.

Users of Gmail accounts can now modify their current @gmail.com address without losing their data or services.

Users will continue to receive emails sent to both the old and new addresses once they have been modified.

Emails, messages, and other stored data linked to previous addresses won’t be impacted.

Google stated on its help page that the option to modify the email address associated with a Google Account is being gradually made available to all users and is not yet available to everyone.

Gmail users who felt burdened by the email addresses they chose as children or who wanted to move to more anonymous email addresses applauded the change on social media.

People who had changed their names, including members of the transgender community, were pleased that the new alternatives allowed them to separate themselves from their previous names.

For a long time, competing systems like Microsoft Outlook have made it simple for users to modify their primary address by adding a “alias.”

Google only permits modifications to accounts that finish in @gmail.com, and the new address must likewise end in @gmail.com.

Although users can use their previous Google Account email address at any time, they are unable to establish a new one for the same account for the next 12 months after they have changed it.

If a user wants to modify their email address under the new system, they must verify that it has been implemented for their account.