Change email address for the Xbox account

Samzii15 · May 4, 2015

so i have a microsoft account and i used it to make the xbox account, however i do not wish to use this email and i want to connect my xbox account to a different email address, the email address i want to use now for my xbox account is also a microsoft
account however its not linked with an xbox account.

is it possible to do this ?

will everything transfer over? (i know something about funds not transferring over) i mean purchases and gamer score and gamer tag ect.

:)

xboxfelix · May 4, 2015

How to Change your Xbox LIVE account information

Overview

It is possible to change information associated with your Xbox LIVE account like your name, address, phone number or email address.

Note: You cannot change the country that is associated with your Xbox LIVE account. If you have moved to another country and you would like to access Xbox LIVE from there, you have to create a new Xbox LIVE account in your new location.

How to Change your name, address, phone number or email on Xbox.com

1) Go to My Account and Sign In with your Microsoft Account. (This is the email and password that is associated with your Xbox LIVE account).

2) Make the changes you want to your billings account information and then click Save.

How to Change your name, address, phone number or email on your console.

1) Sign in using your Xbox LIVE gamertag.

2) Proceed to Settings, and then select Account.

3) Select Your Information, and then go to Billing Information.

4) Sign In with your Microsoft account password.

5) Change your billing account information and then click Done.

In case you want to change the billing name on your Xbox LIVE account, go to Xbox.com

Closingracer · May 4, 2015

I want to change my email associated to my account ?

How can I change email addresses associated to my account ?

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AustralianBL00D · May 4, 2015

Yo Samzii15,

Have a look at this link, hopefully it will answer you question

It can only be done via the 360 at the moment I believe

support.xbox.com/.../switch-gamertag-to-different-microsoft-account

Geckosaurus · May 5, 2015

You can update and change the e-mail address associated with your acct/gamertag by going to live.com I believe.

Passwords and security features can be changed, and if I remember correctly, there is a 30-day pending period your acct goes through to verify it is you making the changes.

I had to deal with that upon returning to live last Winter.

You'd only be essentially "adding" a new e-mail address, not so much swapping everything over to a new MS acct.

Kind of like ADDING a different payment method to make purchases.

Whereas switching and controlling from a totally separate Microsoft acct with no or different gamertag associated, I don't think is possible.

Geckosaurus · Oct 31, 2018

I tried to edit my post:

It seems you can perhaps as mentioned, swap to a different MS acct; if other acct meets requirements.

All content, games, achievements, friends would accompany, just not Microsoft funds.

Though this is the first I have heard is possible, nvr met anyone claiming to have accomplished, and I don't really see why the necessity.

Let us know how it goes, and call MS if have troubleshooting the change.

{Parity}

Just change the email address on xbox account 2 to some free email address and once that is done change the email address on Account 1 to the address that was on account 2.

WPAK

Hi there,

you can't merge accounts itself or fully move the Xbox Live Account to a different Microsoft Account, but something that could work for you is changing the primary email address for the Microsoft Account.

My assumption what steps might be required are:

- Change the primary email on the New Unused Xbox Account account to something else (you might need a new MS account/email for that) so that the Wanted email address is no longer attached to a Microsoft Account.

- Change the primary email on the Old Xbox account to the new wanted email address, so that that Wanted email address can be used to sign in to the Xbox main account.

See this link for the full information on how to change the primary email address on a Microsoft Account

https://support.xbox.com/my-account/microsoft-account/change-email-sign-in-for-microsoft-account

Let us know the results

SONIC SCREAM 07

You will need to change the email address on the "dummy" account to something else, so that is becomes free to use with another account. Then you will be cable to change the email address on your main gamertag using this
email address.

To change the email address, go on your Xbox, select Account Management and then Windows LIVE ID.

Tezzerrific

the microsoft account is the email and xbox account, if your parents used their account to create your xbox account then they still own that account, changing the primary email and deleting their email address just basically means changed your parents email address and if they had used their original address to sign into other services across the net then you have just broken all of that.

as you changed the email address the email inbox will still belong to them and they will still receive emails.

you need to create your own account.

bowski477

Accounts cannot be merged. You would need to change the email address of account 2 to a 3rd email address to free up Account 2s email address. Then you can change the email address of account 1 to the email address previously used on account 2.

Change email address for the Xbox account