Google officially announces multiple account toggling in Gmail

By on Aug 5, 2010 at 7:30 PM
General August 5, 2010

Over the past few days, tech sites have been reporting that some Gmail users were seeing a new option in their email web-settings that allowed them to switch between multiple Gmail accounts without logging out. Today, Google has made this new feature official. On the official Gmail Blog, Engineering Director Macduff Hughes wrote: “You can visit google.com/accounts and click the link next to ‘Multiple sign-in.’ After you sign into your first account, you can sign in with up to two additional accounts from the new accounts menu in the upper right hand corner of Gmail, then easily toggle back and forth between them. You can even open multiple Gmail tabs — one for each of your accounts.” The blog does note that not all Google services support multiple account sign-ins yet and that this feature will not work in offline mode or on your mobile device. All things considered, we’re sure this new feature is welcomed by those who are trying to manage multiple Gmail accounts.

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  • DaHarder

    It’s about time… Thanks Google

  • bringit

    Nice one. Gotta love how Google keeps working (and listening) to improve.

  • PAPINYC

    Pure genius !

    (Are people still paying for other email single account rights with or without IMAP/POP3, e.g., @yahoo, @hotmail, @mac ????)

    Thanks Google !

    • Dirk

      @yahoo & @hotmail (now @live) are both free.

      It’s just Apple charging for Mobile Me. Not worth it and your only paying for a service that is
      1. Terribly unstable
      2. Free with many other vendors. Most on Google.

      Mac Fans love to give more to Apple’s bottom line even if they don’t own their stock. Makes no sense to me but…
      I’m not an Apple Fan.

      • helebek

        You pay yahoo for IMAP/POP3. Hotmail I don’t know, I don’t care :) .

      • Erphan

        I pay $100 per year for Find My iPhone. That’s it.

        Everything else, Google can meet or exceed.

      • Dirk

        What a bargain!

        Wow, you are a very smart shopper.

        Shoppers like you will keep Steve Jobs in a new Turtle Neck everyday.

      • Seth

        I paid about $2.50 one time fee for watchdroid pro and if I really wanted to be able to do even more I could pay $20 one time fee for wavesecure…but 100 dollars?! really, even $100 one time fee would be just ridiculous…

        just one more reason I’m very glad I own an android phone and will continue to boycott anything apple.

  • Skylar

    Awesome, thanks Google!

  • Suspiro

    AWESOME

  • WalterSobchak

    Sweet.
    One for work
    One for play
    One for eharmony, match, and chemistry.com

  • Bob Rhine

    I’ve been able to do this for like over a year on hotmail. I can even add other email providers to my hotmail.

  • Residence

    Walter,

    Do you display the same pic that you have here on those dating websites? If so, you can delete your email accounts. No woman will ever write you.

    Please spare us all and remove your hideous visage.

    • WalterSobchak

      That’s over the line smokey!
      This is not Nam’….. There are rules here!

  • rotax

    I pay $100 per year for my Privacy. Nothing is free people wake up! Linking of accounts is very convenient , if your collecting and marketing data on users.

    People get stuck on the technical, to that, no issue and nice work for Google. But Google’s stock isn’t where it is for what they give away, it’s what they sell. Does 90+ % of their users know what Google does with the data they get from their loving free users? Google should pay you to use their services for the money they make. I will happily pay for my privacy.

  • Kevin

    It has a major flaw. If you sign in to multiple accounts, and then log off, it logs out of all of them and you have to redo the whole process when you log on again. It doesn’t automatically sign in to all accounts when you log on to one… unless I’m missing something.

  • Josh

    Am I the only one who has no problem switching between Gmail accounts on my Android phone? I keep seeing things saying that it is not available on mobile devices yet, but it works on my DInc with the latest leak of Froyo on it.

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