What will happen when I switch the primary email on a Xbox account to a different one?

Hello, Quinn L. I'm Arturo, and I'll be glad to provide assistance with your inquiry today.

Please be aware, if you want to add an alias that's already associated with a Microsoft account, you will get an error because that's not possible.

Below, I'm going to share an article from Microsoft with more information about adding and removing aliases:

https://support.microsoft.com/offic...look-com-459b1989-356d-40fa-a689-8f285b13f1f2

“You can't add an email address that's associated with a work or school account as an alias.

An alias or email address can only contain letters, numbers, dot (.), underscore (_) or dash/hyphen (-). Spaces and other special characters aren't allowed.

Existing Hotmail, Live, Outlook.com, and MSN addresses can't be added as aliases, and you can't add an alias that is already associated with another Microsoft account.

It isn't possible to create a new alias using @hotmail, @live.com, or @msn.com. If a Hotmail address is important to you, you need to sign out and create a new account.”

Additionally, it is important to mention that if you decide to remove an alias, it will be removed permanently and can't be used again or access to that Outlook email.

In the same article I shared above, you will find that information.

“Are you sure? If you remove an alias that's an email address from a Microsoft domain (like @hotmail.com, @live.com, @outlook.com, or @msn.com), you're permanently deleting the alias, and it can't be associated with any Microsoft account again.”

Furthermore, please refrain from sharing personal information, including an email address.

As community users, we are not able to enter or check your account information, and everything we comment can be seen by anyone on the internet.

I know this is not the kind of answer you were expecting, but your understanding is appreciated.

Kind regards,

Arturo.

You can not really merge to accounts, but you can change the primary email address on the account your gamertag is associated with to the email address of your newer account.

If you still own a Xbox 360 there is a guide available to bind your gamertag to a different live account, which is much more easier to do, then change the primary email address.

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

Hi! I'm Rostom, an Independent Advisor. I will be glad to help you here. Sorry to hear about what happened.

Please be informed that there's no way we can transfer account data and licenses. They will remain on that account. What we could only do is to switch or transfer email address as a primary email address of the account. However, that can only be done if the email address we're talking about is a 3rd party email address since we can replace it and transfer to a different account. If that was a Microsoft email address, there's no way we can transfer that to a different account since Microsoft emails are Microsoft account itself.

So you are trying to have your account switched to a different email? If so you cannot change your primary email. Though you can add accounts to your account and make them primary. Yes that sounded confusing so ill say this... the email you used will always
be linked to your account as number one primary, but you can add another to be second primary... just sign into your live account on microsoft.com and manage account, there you will see "emails associated with this account"

So what happens to my Xbox account when I add a new email and make it my primary? Does it just change the email name and I still keep all my data?