Gmail Is Sending E-Mail Using Your Youtube Username: A Fix
You guide hold a couplet of options:
- Change the "Sent from" refer inward your Gmail account
- Change your Google+ Profile refer dorsum to your existent name
- Delete your Google+ Profile entirely
Imagine the next situation: y'all guide hold been using Gmail for years, sending e-mail using your personal name, let's nation "Jane Doe". You too guide hold a YouTube channel, which has a YouTube channel username that's unlike from your personal name, something similar "crazyspacemansue". You guide hold no Google+ account.
You sign into your YouTube occupation organisation human relationship together with a popup tells y'all in that place are novel choices for your channel name. You select to role your YouTube refer on Google.
But what y'all may non guide hold realized is that using the "same refer on YouTube together with Google" volition too touching on the refer that y'all role for Gmail. If y'all select to role your YouTube refer on Google, instead of sending emails equally Jane Doe, y'all are at i time sending emails equally crazyspacemansue.
YouTube volition create a Google+ Profile amongst the refer y'all choose. If y'all select to "use your YouTube refer on Google", the Google+ Profile volition role your YouTube username.
That may last a occupation if your YouTube username is unknown to your e-mail contacts, is maybe non equally professional person equally you'd similar to acquaint yourself, or if y'all are trying to maintain your YouTube identity together with Gmail identities separate.
How tin y'all create this problem?
You guide hold a couplet of options for fixing this issue. The kickoff is to maintain your novel Google+ Profile, only alter the "from" refer inward your Gmail settings. The bit is to alter your Google+ identity.
Option 1: Change the refer that people encounter on your Gmail messages
If y'all would similar to maintain your Google+ Profile inward the identity of your YouTube channel, y'all tin alter the alter the refer that Gmail uses when it sends your mail.
To alter that:
1. Sign into your Gmail occupation organisation human relationship (mail.google.com) together with click the gear icon inward the upper correct corner.
Select "Settings" from the drop-down menu. That volition guide hold y'all to your Gmail occupation organisation human relationship settings.
2. In your Gmail settings click the Accounts tab.
You should encounter settings for "Send postal service as:". Click "edit info".
3. H5N1 window volition popular upwardly that lets y'all alter the name that appears on the e-mail y'all send.
Once y'all guide hold saved the changes, your emails volition laid about using your preferred name.
You should encounter settings for "Send postal service as:". Click "edit info".
3. H5N1 window volition popular upwardly that lets y'all alter the name that appears on the e-mail y'all send.
Once y'all guide hold saved the changes, your emails volition laid about using your preferred name.
There is a limitation however: whatever of your mail recipients who too role Gmail volition last able to encounter the Google+ Profile that is linked to your Gmail account. If y'all don't desire people to associate your YouTube channel username amongst your Gmail account, y'all may non desire that to happen.
Related information:
A Gmail Miscellany: Wrong picture? Wrong name? Mismatch errors betwixt social profiles together with contact records - how things become incorrect amongst contact synchronisation across networks
If y'all don't desire your YouTube channel username to last associated amongst your Gmail address or Google+ Profile, y'all tin alter your Google+ Profile refer to your existent name.Option 2: Change the refer on your Google+ Profile to your existent name
1. If y'all create non desire to role your existent refer on YouTube, y'all must kickoff unlink your YouTube channel from your Google+ Profile.
Go to your YouTube occupation organisation human relationship settings (www.youtube.com/account) together with select the choice to disconnect your channel from your Google+ profile.
You tin afterward link your YouTube channel to a Google+ Page, which won't touching on your Gmail name.
2. To alter your refer on both Google+ together with Gmail, go to your Google+ Profile (plus.google.com/me) and click on your name at the top
• Remember your refer must comply amongst the Google+ Profile refer policy. You cannot alter the refer on your Google+ Profile to a occupation organisation or construct name.
Related information:
YouTube Help: Switch dorsum to your onetime YouTube username
Google+ Help: Google+ Profiles Name Policy
Option 3: Delete your Google+ Profile
If y'all create non desire to guide hold a Google+ Profile, together with y'all guide hold unlinked your YouTube channel from Google+, y'all tin choose to delete your Google+ Profile instead of renaming it.
• Be certain to unlink your YouTube channel from Google+ earlier deleting your Google+ Profile!
1. Go to your Google+ Profile settings (www.google.com/settings/plus)
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page together with select the choice to "Disable Google+"
3. You volition last given 2 options, deleting your Google+ content or deleting your Google+ Profile.
Choose the option to delete your entire Google Profile.
Note that if your YouTube channel is silent linked to your Google+ Profile, it should clearly betoken that inward your Google+ downgrade options. If it says your YouTube channel volition last deleted, y'all must kickoff become dorsum to YouTube together with unlink your channel from Google+.
What y'all don't desire to see:
Be certain to read all the data that Google+ provides on the side yesteryear side covert most deleting your Google+ Profile.
• This volition delete all content y'all guide hold on Google+ along amongst your Profile, only should non touching on whatever Google+ Pages y'all ain or manage.
• Once your Google+ Profile is deleted, y'all tin either role Gmail together with YouTube without a Google+ Profile or create a novel one.
How to foreclose this from happening again
If y'all guide hold unlinked your YouTube channel from its Google+ Profile, together with y'all guide hold non linked your channel to a Google+ Page instead, y'all volition proceed to last shown prompts bespeak y'all to link your YouTube channel to Google+.To dismiss the prompt, click the X inward the upper right-hand corner of the popup.
And when y'all are given the choice to link your YouTube channel to a Google+ Profile again, click the link indicating y'all desire to role a unlike refer on YouTube together with the residuum of Google.
If y'all create that, hereafter prompts volition enquire y'all to link to a Google+ Page, rather than a Google+ Profile.
(Last update: March 2019)