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Changing your primary email address

To change your primary email address, you'll add a new email, then delete the old one.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
  2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Emails.
  3. If you'd like to add a new email address to set as your primary email address, under "Add email address", type a new email address and click Add.
  4. Under "Primary email address", use the drop-down menu to click the email address you'd like to set as your primary email address, and click Save.
  5. To remove the old email address from your account, next to the old email, click .