How To Set Default Email Account

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Your default Gmail business relationship is what dictates your default YouTube folio, your calendar events, and much more than. To change your default Gmail account, y'all'll demand to sign out of all existing accounts and then re-sign in on a browser that volition salvage your preferences; y'all can and then add your other accounts to your new default.

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Navigate to your Gmail inbox. Brand sure this is your default business relationship before proceeding.
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Click your profile image. You can find this in the top right corner of your inbox page.

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Click "Sign out" in the drib-down menu. Your default Gmail business relationship and all linked accounts will sign out.^[i]
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Click your preferred default account.
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Enter your account'south password.
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Click "Sign in". You should now be signed into your preferred default account; from here, yous can add together your other accounts to your new default.

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Click your contour prototype.
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Click "Add Account" in the drop-downward carte.
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Click the name of an account you'd like to add together. Alternatively, you can click "Add together account" at the lesser of this page to add a new business relationship.^[2]
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Type you additional account'southward password. If you're adding a previously-unlinked business relationship, yous'll need to provide the email address besides.
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Click "Sign in" when you're done. Your secondary account should now by signed in and linked to your default account!
- You tin repeat this procedure for as many accounts as you would like to link.
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How do I change my default Gmail business relationship if signing out of my default Gmail account is not an choice?

Yous can select the "Sign out of all accounts" button at the bottom. This worked for me.
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Why does my secondary Gmail account show as my default?

If you logged into that account prior to your master account, so it automatically becomes your default. Sign out of both and so sign back in to the i you want as default first.

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Gmail's mobile app opens to the last account page you had open. To change the account to which the Gmail app opens, simply change the active account from inside the app'due south "Manage Accounts" section.

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