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How to change your YouTube email address through your Google account

Written by Steven John
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You can change your YouTube email through your Google account, but it's complicated if you're using a Gmail address. Shutterstock
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It's not always possible to change the email address associated with a YouTube account.

If the email address associated with your YouTube account is an @gmail.com email, you probably can't change it and will need to create a new Google account with a non-Gmail email that will then be linked to a new YouTube account.

For others users, however, the process of changing the email address linked to a YouTube account is pretty straightforward.

Here's how to do it. 

How to change your YouTube email address

1. Sign into your Google account and then click on your image (or avatar) at the top right corner.

2. Click "Manage your Google Account" on the dropdown menu.

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Go to your Google Account through YouTube.  Steven John/Business Insider

3. On the next page, click "Personal info" from the column on the left side of the screen.

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Click on Personal Info.  Steven John/Business Insider

4. Click on Email in the "Contact info" section. 

5. Select "Google Account email," and click on Edit next to your email address. According to Google, you may not be able to open "Google Account email" if you're using a Gmail address, and you won't be able to change it. 

6. If you can edit your email, enter the new email address you wish to use, then save to confirm it.

Now go to the newly added email address's inbox and watch for a verification request. Verify the change, and you should be good to go.

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Steven John has been a freelance writer for more than a dozen years and has been a regular contributor to Business Insider since 2017. His work includes a focus on the tech world, covering companies including Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and others. He also reviews restaurants, shares how-to cooking articles, and writes general interest pieces.Steven also writes for publications including Architectural Digest, The Daily Beast, Forbes, and more. In the past, he also wrote for New York Magazine, Mashed, U.S. News & World Report and other outlets. He runs his own outdoor lifestyle site, Dad Gear Review, and co-hosts the Fact Trekkers podcast with his son. He has had two novels published, Three A.M. and Outrider. He graduated from Emerson College with a degree in communications focused on filmmaking.He is an avid outdoorsman and can be frequently found in a kayak or on a mountain trail, often with his family along for the adventure.Expertise:Tech industryTech hardwareOutdoorsCookingRestaurantsDIYPopular articles:Microsoft: A history of the software giant co-founded by Bill Gates, its products and services, jobs, layoffs, and moreYouTube is a major entertainment force. Here's the platform's history, plus how to create a channel and upload videos.Inside the life and career of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, billionaire, and philanthropistTim Cook net worth: How the Apple leader earns and spends his moneyBecoming an Amazon seller is a simple process. Here's what's involved, plus how you make money and get paid.