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Apple ID Website Gets Design Overhaul
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Yup! I’ve got my original .Mac email address from back when it was still iTools! I think that was 1998 - ugh, I’m old 😝
I'm sure I still have an old eWorld account lying around here...
If the subscriptions are account specific and contain data or relevant history, I can see that being a problem.
using 
I started off with my own Apple ID with a non-Apple e-mail address, already used that for App Store purchases and later on switched to MobileMe once that became available for free.
Apple made the decision for us to automatically turn every MobileMe and iCloud e-mail address into its own new Apple ID, instead of being able to use it for an existing Apple ID.
What they should have asked during the sign-up process is: Do you have an Apple ID? Yes/No. But they didn’t and still don’t I think.
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Same here, and I suspect the same for many others with Apple products and services.
Are you in the US? If so just let your wife use her ID for store. Add her to Family Sharing and share purchases. Voila, your wife doesn't have to pay for app or anything that works with Family Sharing.
Nice that they put it all in one place, but man is it basic and kinda ugly, like an intern designed it (I am a professional UI/UX designer), no animations, no hovers, terribly unresponsive. Their marketing pages are all so flashy and dynamic, but all the webapp stuff is just meh, bare minimum.
Yup. And hence, multiple AppleIDs. I hate it.
I have one AppleID that I've been using to purchase apps, and then another one that is generally for the other stuff like iCloud sync, Notes, Calendar. And then I have another AppleID for Mail.
It's not like I want it that way. It's because of the way things were set up way way way back with iTools, etc., I now have like 3 AppleIDs that I use. I'd like them all to combine so I only have 1 AppleID.
I've tried that, it fails because it has to be the email associated with the account, which is a separate active AppleID. I can't log in to change that email either because it is making me change it to an email address to go further.
Trust me, nothing I or the Apple person tried worked to get around it.
eWorld, that is what it was called. I was trying to explain this to my daughter a few weeks ago but couldn't remember the name. Hmmm, i'm not sure my memory can go that deep to remember what I used though.
Yes, me too, us really old timers have Apple IDs that aren't even email addresses. Same conversation over the YEARS with tech support who don't believe that you could have an Apple ID that wasn't an email address.
Seriously.
Apple.
PLEASE.
Fix.
This.
And I don't want to hear about how it could be a hijacking/security/hacker potential problem, that's a BS excuse. Figure it out. I can buy a car on the web, I have DocuSigned many documents on the web, I can trade $10,000's of stock on the web, why the hell can't I merge my Apple ID's? All the credit bureaus and banks have figured out how to prove I'm me.