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Apple ID Could Be Rebranded to 'Apple Account' Later This Year
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I thought I was the only one. Well of course not. But afraid to change anything and not understanding what each is. I created a joint
Strangely this never effected me. I’ve had the same .mac email address (x@mac.com) since 2001 and it’s still my one and only AppleID.
Jx
They would ask for your Apple Account email address. Just like for your Facebook Account. Most probably already refer to their Apple ID as their Apple Account so this would just be making it official using the more common nomenclature.
This doesn’t change anything other than just what they formally refer to as you Apple Account. Apple Account would be the more common naming but it was originally AppleID and they simplify modernizing the official name.
Will there *finally* be a way to merge 2 accounts (old iTunes + Apple ID) seamlessly? One can still hope.
This is just a copy change, I certainly would expect any functionality change to simply a name change that may be more geared to making it easy for Apple support language.
im guessing you were a paying user when the dotmac to MobileMe happened (or maybe I mean MobileMe to iCloud). I wasnt. those who were not ended up in the boat im in.
be honest ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ where it all went wrong. if I had known that skipping the $99 would mean that today I have Final Cut and others in Mac.com and other apps in iCloud etc etc etc… im sure there is some technical reason (or financial/legal reason) that a nobody like me would understand… but for the user (and in the case of someone with a Mac.com a looong time user) it makes you say, "2.8 trillion dollars yet I can’t merge Mac.com and iCloud.com and my podcasts app syncs like a server exploded"
About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
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About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses
Depending on when you created your iCloud account, your iCloud email addresses and aliases may end with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com domains. Learn how these email addresses are granted.Review these scenarios to see which one applies to you:
- If you created an iCloud account on or after September 19, 2012, your email address ends with @icloud.com. Learn more about @icloud.com mail addresses.
- If you created an iCloud account before September 19, 2012, or moved to iCloud with an active MobileMe account before August 1, 2012, you have both @me.com and @icloud.com email addresses.
- If you had a working @mac.com email address as of July 9, 2008, kept your MobileMe account active, and moved to iCloud before August 1, 2012, you can use @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses with your iCloud account.
If you created one or more email aliases for your account, be aware of the following:
- You can change or delete an email alias, but if you delete an @mac.com or @me.com email alias, you can't add it back to your iCloud account.
- You can't sign in to iCloud.com with an email alias. Sign in with your @icloud.com email address or the Apple ID that you use with your iCloud account.
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Wouldn’t this actually be cleaning things up a bit?
I do IT support. The blank stares you get when saying “Apple ID” vs what’s your “Apple Account” is noticeable…
I believe this really only affected people who were initially windows users who the moved into the ecosystem later.
I started with Apple like many in the 2000s did: with an iPod. I was using windows and it was a big deal when iTunes became available on windows. I had an iTunes account
I didn’t get my .mac account until I started working at an Apple Store, where we were given the account for free.
The long standing problem is that I couldn’t (and still can’t) change my iTunes/App Store email address because if I entered my .mac/mobileme/icloud email address, it says that the account already exists.
To compound the problem, I have many apps/media/etc that I’ve purchased on my iTunes/App Store account that I would lose if I decided to keep my iCloud one.
So, I and many other have to put up with 2.
Dear zod Apple make it possible to properly fuse Apple ID's and OLD Apple iTunes accounts that ended up as Apple Appstore accounts ( pre xxx@me or xxx@icloud )
I want one account.
I want one account.
Like how they rebranded Apple Store to just “Apple,” but everyone still calls it the Apple Store.“What’s your Apple Account? You meant Apple ID?”
Not confusing at all
Or how people still say “iTunes.”
I have an iCloud account and an iTunes account. Always confusing. Drives me crazy that I can’t merge them.
I wonder if this is because they plan to use the ID branding for something else, like expanding their digital driver's license thing to include other forms of identification (passports, etc). Probably not, but I don't see what benefit there is in changing from Apple ID to Apple Account.
I didn’t know you could ever have had a personal non-email Apple ID, but 20 years ago when I worked for Apple Retail we had to create non-email Apple IDs to access the internal systems like time clock and POS. Those were linked to employment though.
