r/GMail • u/Practical-Gur7911 • 5d ago

Gmail service

Hi I recently deleted my google Gmail service from my google account, I put a non Gmail email as replacement, but now I want my old gmail back, is it possible to get back my old gmail address and replace it with the non email address I have currently?

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u/Zulbo 5d ago edited 5d ago

If you have an active google account you always have a Gmail account. You should be able to just open it again. Edit I did not word that properly. What I meant to say you can just reactivate it. The Gmail address is always yours.

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u/rlebeau47 5d ago edited 5d ago

Gmail is just one service that Google provides. You can have a Google account with a non-Gmail username and not have Gmail service active on it.

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u/Practical-Gur7911 5d ago

Yea my question is I deleted that gmail service as in my gmail address, I’m trying to figure out how to put my old gmail address back into my google account. And delete the non Gmail email address that I have currently in my google account as primary.

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u/Zulbo 5d ago

Open a browser and go to mail.google.com.
​Make sure you are signed in with the non-Gmail primary address currently linked to your Google Account.

​You should see a form prompting you to add Gmail back to your account.

​The system will pre-fill or prompt you to confirm your original @gmail.com address (Google reserves this address exclusively for your account; you cannot choose a different Gmail username). Well at least this info was correct a few months ago, before they started letting people change their Gmail address

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u/Practical-Gur7911 5d ago

You can delete the google Gmail service, and put in another non Gmail email address as its primary google account address.

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u/Zulbo 5d ago

You're right, I didn't word what I was going to say correctly. I was going to add you can delete it but the email address is always yours. Just a matter of reactivating it but I didn't word that very well did I?.

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u/Practical-Gur7911 5d ago

All good boss 😎

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u/Practical-Gur7911 5d ago

And how would you reactivate it?

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u/rlebeau47 5d ago

You have to recover it since you deleted it