Changing Apple ID

You will always have to use the college email though if you want to be able to play the purchases made using that email. Otherwise, contact iTunes support and they will tell you how to change you r email settings so that you don't get any email there.

You can't change you AppleID completely because purchases are tied to that particular email. I learned this same lesson when I used my Live Hotmail account for iTunes and wish that I could just move away from it. So essentially, you will always have 2 AppleIDs.

What you need to do is:
1. Log in to your account on iTunes.
2. Click on "edit" for your AppleID.
3. Click the link to appleid.apple.com
4. Log in to your account
5. On the left, select "Language and Contact Preferences"
6. de-select the Email checkbox under "Communication from Apple."
7. Log out

That should be it. You might receive one more email to confirm your changes, but other than that, just update the settings with your alternate email address(new AppleID) and that will be one less thing with your college email.

 

You can change your Apple ID email address. I've done it before. Purchases are tied to your Apple ID account, not an email address.

What you can't do, is change the email of an existing Apple ID account to a .me email address. .me email addresses come with an Apple ID account pre-associated with them. Since you cannot combine Apple ID accounts, you can't change your existing account to use a .me address because the .me address already has an Apple ID account associated with it.

OP, if you want to migrate away from your college email address, I'd recomment getting a Gmail account (or similar) and changing your Apple ID email to that. Use that email for store purchases, and you can still use your .me address for iCloud if you need to.

 

This might help you in changing both your AppleID and the associated password.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HE40

 

Same issue here.

I struggled with this for a while. My only solution was to add another email address (although I DID add a .me address, I forget how) as a secondary email address that you can use to sign in... but alas, pretty much impossible to purge the original email without just having to substitute another non-.me email address in its place as the primary.