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Apple Now Letting Apple IDs With Third-Party Email Addresses Be Updated to Apple Email Addresses
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A very good question based on a stout observation of Apple’s past practice.
Someone just before your post mentioned the original @Mac.com domain which was killed by apple when @me.com was born.
I believe if there ever is an @ios.com exchange or domain name Apple will fully own it, co located on the same servers and granting an automated alias such as JohnAppleSeed@icloud.com to have auto alias johnAppleSeed@ios.com, routing emails automatically to both and which you or Apple will automatically switch to the latter (as an example), to the new alias as a primary. Hiding the older original for a year until full routing is updated across mail servers with redipients and reply’s.
Hahaha, I've been loudly whining about the lunacy of that limitation for years every single time I've visited an Apple store to no avail. Dillon sends an E-mail saying the same thing that thousands of people have been saying for years, and gets all the credit.
Good going Dillon! The brownnose is strong with you!
Good going Dillon! The brownnose is strong with you!
I was finally able to change my Apple ID to a me.com address. I didn’t have to sign out of any devices. I had an old address as my Apple ID, lets say old.com, and when iCloud came out I used old.com to sign up for iCloud, as Apple didn’t let you sign up for an Apple ID without a third-party email. No longer wanting to use old.com but being unable to use me.com as my Apple ID, I set me.com as my primary address so at least all my iTunes receipts and such would be sent there. Having my me.com address as my primary address was the hangup. Strangely, I couldn’t figure out how to change it on the website.
I went to settings-account on my iPad and could change my primary address there. It can’t be your Apple ID address, but I have a third email I used. With me.com no longer as my primary address, I was able to go back to the website and use me.com as my Apple ID, with old.com no longer in the picture.
*Oddly enough, now that I’ve changed my Apple ID, the “Primary Email” address field has disappeared from both the website and iOS settings for Apple ID. Perhaps they simply want all communications to go through the Apple ID, though you can still have a second security email address. I think this is an attempt by Apple to streamline things, and to get most people to use an Apple address as their Apple ID. It appears the Primary Email option was in place for those with a third party email Apple ID to receive Apple correspondence to their iCloud email.
I went to settings-account on my iPad and could change my primary address there. It can’t be your Apple ID address, but I have a third email I used. With me.com no longer as my primary address, I was able to go back to the website and use me.com as my Apple ID, with old.com no longer in the picture.
*Oddly enough, now that I’ve changed my Apple ID, the “Primary Email” address field has disappeared from both the website and iOS settings for Apple ID. Perhaps they simply want all communications to go through the Apple ID, though you can still have a second security email address. I think this is an attempt by Apple to streamline things, and to get most people to use an Apple address as their Apple ID. It appears the Primary Email option was in place for those with a third party email Apple ID to receive Apple correspondence to their iCloud email.
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I didn't have to, it just prompts you on your devices to put your password back in for the icloud.com Apple ID. It's been great getting rid of the gmail address entirely!
Oh that’s good. I know Apple says to log out of your devices but I guess there isn’t a need. It will boot you out anyways asking for the new credentials lol
I've been reading more and more of people that have their accounts set up like this and want to change them. I'm curious why this was done in the first place? I can't remember when I first signed up for iTunes but it looks like I switched to iCloud in December 2011. I have a receipt from iTunes in 2008, well before my first iPhone. But everything's under one account.
so you have to signout from every single service (iMessage, FaceTime, iTunes, etc.) from every single device you own (less the one you are using to change id)? It will take me forever.
I've got 4 Macs, 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, appletv and watch. I'll take half a day to signout from everything.
I've got 4 Macs, 2 iPads, 2 iPhones, appletv and watch. I'll take half a day to signout from everything.
Your high horse is tripping. You don’t pay for Apple mail. It’s free.
Really? I have all my gmail.com email forwarded to my iCloud.com address - works just fine.
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I thought it was just logging out of each and every device, not the apps
seems you need to sign out from every single service
[doublepost=1509532547][/doublepost]next week I will be still signing out...And after the change you have to sign back in with the new id! Will take forever, I think I'll keep the gmail one.
Don’t forget to sign back in. Take a day off to do it.
I might wait until my vacation on Saturday. I’d hate to sign out only to have the feature not rolled out to me yet.
Is there a “sign out of everything” button? Doesn’t gmail have that?
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Besides that people seems to be having problem actually changing their email address for their ID... nobody seems to be talking about the fact the we need to sign out from all Services before doing this change... and so it means to sign out from iCloud, Music, et. all and then do the change and then sign in and then re-download all Photos from iCloud Photo Library, etc. This is a pain.
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Once you do that, all locally downloaded photos and stuff gets deleted and will be re-downloaded once we sign back in... and for an 32 K iCloud Photo Library, this is quite a pain...
when I signed in on appleid.apple.com with my 3rd party apple ID address, the page showed me two addresses: Apple ID: user@yahoo.com and Primary Email: user@icloud.com . I added the icloud address a long time ago in order to login on my devices using the icloud address instead of the 3rd party address.
I tried to change the yahoo.com address but got the same error as a lot of other folks here.
Then I removed the icloud.com. It was no longer my primary email address and not shown in "reachable at" or any other sections on the page. after that, I was able to change the @yahoo.com Apple ID to my @icloud.com address..
imessage, facetime, Stores ect. are showing now my new apple ID (@icloud.com)
my apologies for my english language, I'm not quite fluent in it.
apple never killed @mac.com. I still have mine after many years. It's tied to @Mac @me @icloud. I solely use the @mac.com for everything, including my appleid. Users simply can no longer "add" a new .mac email address as they did stop supporting the addition when they went to .me then .iCloud. Legacy users never lost the email addy, or id
I have two Apple IDs, one is an @me.com that I use for all things iCloud, and the other is an @gmail.com email address that I've used in the stores for years and has thousands of dollars of iTunes/App Store purchases tied to it. Does this mean I'm able to combine these two accounts, or that if I have blank.blank@gmail.com I can create a blank.blank@icloud.com address (which I thought you could do already?)
When I sign into AppleID I don't see a primary email; just AppleID and reachable at different email addresses.