How to Change Email on Dropbox? [6 Defined Ways]

Want to change the email on Dropbox? Here are the guidelines to follow on how to change the Dropbox email.

The majority of the websites, require us to use our email address to signup. Email addresses are perfect for usernames that can be a point of contact for communication and for Dropbox account ownership verification.

It will be difficult if the email address in Dropbox will not be used to verify securely. Email is ideal for the guaranteed authentication to sign in to the Dropbox account and also on all the websites.

Whatever the reason, we will change our email address, so we have to update our accounts. Alternatively, we can open new accounts if we want a fresh ID or if we can’t update our email address.

I find difficulties in changing emails on Dropbox, but after several practical tries, I got a solution. I will share my own experience in this article.

Let’s see what the possible ways are to change the email address in Dropbox.

• How to change the email address on Dropbox
• How to add a secondary email to Dropbox
• How do I remove secondary email from Dropbox
• How to link two Dropbox accounts
• How to unlink two Dropbox accounts
• How to switch between two accounts

How to Change the Email Address on Dropbox

Below is the guideline to see how to change the Email on Dropbox. This will be helpful for both Windows users and Mac users as well.

Step-1

The initial step is to open Dropbox.com and sign in to the Dropbox account with the existing mail, to change the email address on the Dropbox.

Step-2

Click on the profile picture which is at the top right of the Home page and then click Settings to edit the Email address on the Dropbox.

Step-3

After tapping the settings icon, the page will appear with your photo, name, and personal email with an edit option under the General Tab and below the Basics plan option. Tap edit which is near personal email.

Step-4

On this new page, enter your new email address in both the email address fields and password( old password which is used for existing id) then click Update email to further process.

Step-4

Once we click Update email, Dropbox tells us that they have sent a verification email to our updated(new) mail address. Click Done and then check your inbox for the email sent from Dropbox.

Step-5

You may see an email from Dropbox which indicates Verify your email. Click on that to verify your new email address.

Step-6

We are done now, we can use our Dropbox account with our updated email to continue our use of Dropbox storage. By seeing the below image new email has been changed.

By the above methods, we can now know the process of changing email on Dropbox.

How to Change a Profile Name and Photo in Dropbox

To change the profile name in Dropbox go ahead and follow the simple steps.

Step-1

Go to Settings if you are already on the “Home page” of your Dropbox account.

Step-2

The Personal Account page will appear under the General icon below the Basics option click on Profile name with the edit option.

Click on that to change our profile name. If we want to change our profile photo, click on the photo with the edit option to change the profile photo for our Dropbox account.

Step-3

Once you have done the above step, the next step will ask for an updated profile name with the below dialog box. We can give the name as per our wish so that the new name will be updated.

Hope you understand the easy process to change the profile name and photo for the Dropbox account.

How to Add a Secondary Email to Dropbox

We have seen earlier to change the email on Dropbox, here we will see how to add a secondary email (another email) for the same account. Secondary emails are available only to Dropbox Professionals, Plus, and Business customers.

Step-1

The first step is to open Dropbox.com and sign in to the Dropbox account with the existing mail, to add a secondary email address on the Dropbox.

Step-2

Click on the profile picture which is at the top right of the Home page and then click the Settings option in Dropbox account to add a second mail in Dropbox.

Step-3

We may be able to see the General tab and scroll down to the Secondary email beside that it shows us Add secondary email option.

Step-4

Click on that and type the secondary email as per our wish and click on Add also we will receive a verification email from Dropbox once we add the secondary email.

Step-5

The secondary will be created after clicking Add option in the above step. For confirmation, we can see the secondary email below the image.

I trust the above steps you find easier to add a secondary email to Dropbox.

How Do I Remove Secondary Email from Dropbox

Let’s look at how to delete secondary emails from Dropbox. It is similar to the one above and will see how it works.

Step-1

The first step is to open Dropbox.com and sign in to the Dropbox account to remove the secondary email from Dropbox.

Step-2

Click on the profile picture which is at the top right of the Home page and then click the Settings option in Dropbox which is under the General section and scroll down to Secondary email.

Step-3

We will see the Edit option near the secondary email. Now we need to click on Delete next to the secondary email. Click Done to remove the secondary email in the Dropbox.

The above one is an easy and quick method to understand to remove additional emails from Dropbox.

How to Link Two Dropbox Accounts

Let’s see here how to link two dropbox accounts step by step. Linking a Dropbox account means we can use the required account whenever we want. It’s like switching over between two accounts. This will not be available for the Basic plans.

Step-1

As usual open Dropbox.com and sign in to the personal account that we have already to link two accounts.

Step-2

Click on the profile picture which is at the top right of the Home page and then click the Settings option in Dropbox which is under the General tab below Basics and scroll down to see Link accounts beside Link your personal accounts.

Step-3

Click on the Link account and a pop-up dialog box appears to give other user credentials which we want to link the accounts.

Step-4

Once the username and password are given, it asks us to sign in so that both accounts will be visible in the top right of the page, so we can use 1st account to share the files or can use the second account also.

So this is the method to link the two Dropbox account.

How to Unlink Two Dropbox Accounts

Let’s see here how to Unlink two dropbox accounts step by step. If we don’t want the linked accounts anymore, at that time we can Unlink the account which we used already. See the similar steps as above to unlink two Dropbox accounts.

Step-1

As usual open Dropbox.com and sign in to the personal account that we have already to link two accounts.

Step-2

Click on the profile picture which is at the top right of the Home page and then click the Settings option in Dropbox which is under the General tab below Basics and scroll down to see Unlink accounts beside Link your personal accounts.

Step-3

Tap on the Unlink beside the Linked accounts so that our linked accounts will be removed, before that it will ask for the confirmation message Are you sure you want to unlink your accounts? Tap on Yes, unlink to continue.

Step-4

The last step is confirming the unlinked account pop-up box will appear once we click on the Yes, unlink option. Check the below image to get clarity.

Hope the steps have cleared the doubts to unlink the two accounts in Dropbox.

How to Switch Between Two Dropbox Accounts

We have seen changing email on dropbox from windows, adding secondary emails, linking, and unlinking for Dropbox. Now we will see how to switch the email addresses in Dropbox.

Step-1

As usual, we need to log in to Dropbox as we did in the above steps. Please refer above procedure to get into the Home page.

Step-2

Before switching into the account, it is mandatory to link the account in Dropbox after that only we are able to switch the account between Dropbox.

Step-3

Refer above procedures under the how-to link two accounts to link the account first and then go ahead with the switching options.

Step-4

After performing all the things related to linking the account, please find the below image to switch or change between the two accounts.

Step-5

Once the account is linked with the already existing account, we can see two accounts in the profile (avatar). It shows us to switch accounts as per our requirement.

• We can create files or folders or share folders in the 1st account.
• Simultaneously in some cases, if we want to share the files or folders to send from another account immediately we can switch over to the other account quickly.

I trust you got clarity on switching between two Dropbox accounts.

Conclusion

We come to an end with the solutions related to changing email on Dropbox. Also, we have covered linking, unlinking, adding, and removing secondary emails.

Along with this, the article touched upon how to change a profile name in Dropbox as well.

I hope this article might help out in resolving your queries regarding changing of email in Dropbox.

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