Google has quietly kicked off 2026 with a change that will hit a specific (but very real) group of Gmail power users: starting January 2026, the web version of Gmail will no longer support two features that helped people pull third-party email into Gmail: “Check mail from other accounts” (POP) — Gmail will stop fetching…

For years, one of the most frustrating limitations of Gmail was also one of the most common: if you chose a bad email address early on, you were basically stuck with it. Maybe it was a joke username, a nickname that didn’t age well, a random number soup, or something you now feel awkward typing…