All Apple correspondence via iCloud mail?

[daanodinot]

I'm considering the move from Gmail to iCloud, especially now that I've purchased a Mac and have moved every other service except Gmail to iCloud already.

However, one of the hurdles is, ironically, Apple. Gmail is set as the primary address of my Apple ID, and iCloud as the secondary. As I believe it's impossible to change Gmail to be your primary address, my question is if it's possible to receive all Apple correspondence (iTunes, App Store, purchases, security etc.) via iCloud?

If it is, could you show me the steps that are required to do this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Gav2k]

You can't change your Apple ID unfortunately. What you can do is set gmail to auto forward everything to iCloud if you wish.

 

[daanodinot]

Hmm... I'm not a big fan of auto forwarding. So it's 100% impossible to send all correspondence directly to iCloud?

 

[Paco II]

Gmail is a much better email service. What do you hope to achieve by switching to iCloud mail?

 

[nightcap965]

What's wrong with keeping both? It's always helpful to have a spare.

 

[daanodinot]

It's not really a rational thing. It's more some kind of pleasure I take in having all services on iCloud.

In any case, since it's not possible to switch your primary ID to iCloud and Gmail is preferable in a number of other ways, I'll probably keep things as they are.