How to change your recovery and contact email in gmail

Do you want to know how to change your recovery and contact email address?. Great, recovery email is one of the most important features of Gmail. While creating a Gmail account, Google asks you to provide a recovery mail which is used in the case when you accidentally delete your account or even lost your data.

Just have a glance at this article to know how to change your recovery and contact email in Gmail.

Steps to change your recovery and contact email in Gmail:

Step 1: You have to first login to your Gmail account by providing your email address and password.

Step 2: Then, go to the top right corner of the screen and then click on a circle icon to open “My account” option. Just click on “My account” button to open your Google account, as shown in the image below.

Step 3: After proceeding to your Google account, you may see “My Account” Welcome page, as shown below.

Step 4: Now, you may see three different account settings option. Just click on “Your personal info” under ‘Personal Info & Privacy’ tab. This will open your personal details section.

Step 5: You may see “Your personal info” page which contains your personal details like Name, Email, Phone, Birthday, About you, Location sharing and Search settings. You just need to select “Email” option because here we are discussing how to change recovery and contact email address.

Step 6: Now, let’s talk about recovery email first. For that, just click on “Recovery email” option to explore further.

Step 7: Just type your new recovery email in the search box provided and then click on “Done” button.

Step 8: Now, let’s talk about contact email. Friends, when you click on Advanced tab, then you’ll be able to see “Contact email” option.

Step 9: Under “Contact email”, just click on “Add Other Email” to add another contact email.

Step 10: After that, you may see new window pops open saying “Add contact email”. Just type your new contact email address there and then click on “ADD” button.