You can now log in with a different user in gmail while keeping other gmail sessions active in the same browser. Google has recently added this feature, which allows you to log in to multiple Gmail accounts simultaneously. Before the introduction of this feature, we had to get creative and use different browsers to monitor more than one gmail inbox at a time.
In fact, working with multiple gmail accounts in one browser used to be a pain in the ass. I’ve written about signing in with another gmail account before, when this new functionality didn’t exist yet. every time I wanted to see another gmail inbox than the one I was logged in to, I had to log out before I could access the other one.
but not anymore.
Today, you can simply log in with a different user in gmail while keeping your current inbox session active. I’ll show you how this works. Before I get to the nitty-gritty, let me say that I recommend using Google Chrome as your browser to work with Gmail accounts. Which has little to do with anything other than (obviously) the fact that your google services will offer the most reliable experience with google’s own browser. If you’re not sure how to get google chrome, see my article on installing google chrome.
log in with a different user in gmail – multiple gmail accounts
alright, with that out of the way, let’s take you to your gmail account. you can go to the google gmail login page at: https://mail.google.com/ if you have a previous session still logged in you will immediately see your gmail inbox and if there was no previous session active you will see something like this:
or, in some cases, you might see something that looks more like this:
(if a previous session was still active, you will immediately land in your gmail inbox, in which case you can skip the following steps to enter your password). type your gmail address and click next or choose a gmail account from the list. then type your gmail account password and click next.
you will now be redirected to your gmail inbox.
continuing, if you want to log in with a different user in gmail while keeping your current gmail inbox active, click the circular google icon in the top right of your screen and select “add another account”
Enter the email address of your other gmail account and click next.
next, enter your password and click next.
Now you can see a screen where google wants you to add a recovery phone number or email address to your google account. Check out my article on how to add a recovery email address to your google account and add a phone number to your google account for more information on that.
Once you have confirmed or updated your recovery email or phone number, you will have completed all the steps to log in with a different user in gmail and view emails from the account. If you are not automatically signed in to the account’s gmail app, you can always click the google apps icon with the 9 dots next to the account logo and select gmail from the list of apps to open gmail.
switch between accounts
Now that you’re logged in with a different user in gmail, let’s see how you can switch between the two. To switch to your other gmail account’s inbox, click the circle google account icon in the top right corner of your account and click the other account (or you can use the “add another” button). account again to open another account’s mailbox).
you can work with multiple tabs in your browser and have multiple gmail accounts open side by side to get an overview. (Feel free to check out my article on working with tabs if you’re not familiar with this.)
You may have noticed in the penultimate image above how my 1tipsdc account appears as the default account. that means if you open a new browser tab and go to your gmail inbox (or eg google drive or any google service), it will open with the default account.
so if I open a new tab in my browser…
… and go to gmail inbox, it will show default account inbox (1tipsdc in this case).
To switch to the other account, I can simply use the google account icon in the top right corner of the screen.
The default account is always the one you logged in with first. so if you want to set 2tipsdc as the default account, use the google account icon and click “log out of all accounts”.
then make sure you sign in with the 2tipsdc account first… and after that you could follow the steps to sign in with a different user in gmail again to sign in with the following google account.
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2tipsdc was now the first account to log in, so it would appear as the default.
conclusion
The method described here to log in with a different user in gmail can help you keep an overview of multiple mail accounts. you can work with multiple tabs in your browser, one for each email account you want to monitor.
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