Changing Apple ID

[Hallstar]

My partner has her Apple ID set with an old Hotmail address and wishes to create an Apple specific address to update the Hotmail address to.

Is anyone aware of how we can create an @icloud / @me / @Mac email address on an iOS device already signed into an Apple ID and then update the Apple ID from current Hotmail address to the newly created Apple address, without losing any settings, data, subscriptions etc.

I hope this makes sense?!!

TIA

 

[JBaby]

It’s a hassle, but she’ll need to keep using both. So she’ll use the Hotmail  ID she uses now. Then she’ll create an iCloud account. The iCloud account will be used for all iCloud related things. The Hotmail  ID will be used for all purchases and Game Center if she ever used it. She can’t transfer her purchases to the iCloud account. I wish we could. And her receipts will still go to the Hotmail address. I had my original  ID long before I had an iPhone because I was a Windows users with iPods. I logged into my old yahoo account and I have yahoo forward all of my  receipts to my iCloud account.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Here are the instructions for converting her current hotmail Apple ID to a iCloud Apple ID.

How to Change your Apple ID from Third Party Email to iCloud

Let's have a look at the method to Change your Apple ID from Third Party Email to iCloud using the simple iTunes settings that you can change the email to

techviral.net

 

[JBaby]

Here are the instructions for converting her current hotmail Apple ID to a iCloud Apple ID.

How to Change your Apple ID from Third Party Email to iCloud

Let's have a look at the method to Change your Apple ID from Third Party Email to iCloud using the simple iTunes settings that you can change the email to

techviral.net

This works?!? I’ve literally have never gotten this to work.

 

[Apple_Robert]

This works?!? I’ve literally have never gotten this to work.

Yes, it works. I did the exact same thing a couple years ago.

 

[JBaby]

Yes, it works. I did the exact same thing a couple years ago.

I’ll have to try again.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I’ll have to try again.

Here is the original MR article on the subject.

Apple Now Letting Apple IDs With Third-Party Email Addresses Be Updated to Apple Email Addresses

Apple today made a small change to the way Apple IDs work, and for the first time, Apple customers who have an Apple ID that uses a third-party email...

www.macrumors.com

 

[JBaby]

Here is the original MR article on the subject.

Apple Now Letting Apple IDs With Third-Party Email Addresses Be Updated to Apple Email Addresses

Apple today made a small change to the way Apple IDs work, and for the first time, Apple customers who have an Apple ID that uses a third-party email...

www.macrumors.com

Thanks!

 

[chrfr]

It’s a hassle, but she’ll need to keep using both.

That's no longer true.
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My partner has her Apple ID set with an old Hotmail address and wishes to create an Apple specific address to update the Hotmail address to.

Is anyone aware of how we can create an @icloud / @me / @Mac email address on an iOS device already signed into an Apple ID and then update the Apple ID from current Hotmail address to the newly created Apple address, without losing any settings, data, subscriptions etc.

I hope this makes sense?!!

TIA

Do not create the new Apple ID first, or you will not be able to move the old hotmail address to the new one.

Change your Apple Account primary email address - Apple Support

Learn how to change the primary email address that you use to sign in to your Apple Account.

support.apple.com

 

[JBaby]

And it still doesn’t work.

 

[chrfr]

And it still doesn’t work.

I have done it successfully in the past.

 

[Hallstar]

That's no longer true.
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Do not create the new Apple ID first, or you will not be able to move the old hotmail address to the new one.

Change your Apple Account primary email address - Apple Support

Learn how to change the primary email address that you use to sign in to your Apple Account.

support.apple.com

Thanks all.

Do we need to create an Apple domain email first?

This link indicates that is the case, stating ‘If you try to change your Apple ID to an @icloud.com email address that was created within the last 30 days, you will be asked to try again later.’

So we will need to create an Apple domain email.
Wait for 30 days.
Then change current Apple ID from Hotmail email to Apple email.

Is that correct?

This is all quite confusing!

 

[Expos of 1969]

Thanks all.

Do we need to create an Apple domain email first?

This link indicates that is the case, stating ‘If you try to change your Apple ID to an @icloud.com email address that was created within the last 30 days, you will be asked to try again later.’

So we will need to create an Apple domain email.
Wait for 30 days.
Then change current Apple ID from Hotmail email to Apple email.

Is that correct?

This is all quite confusing!

Apple... "It just works"

 

[chrfr]

Thanks all.

Do we need to create an Apple domain email first?

This link indicates that is the case, stating ‘If you try to change your Apple ID to an @icloud.com email address that was created within the last 30 days, you will be asked to try again later.’

So we will need to create an Apple domain email.
Wait for 30 days.
Then change current Apple ID from Hotmail email to Apple email.

Is that correct?

This is all quite confusing!

There’s no harm in trying to create the new Apple ID in this process. Have you tested that?

 

[Fred Zed]

Wow. Just made the change. Thanks

 

[Fred Zed]

When signing out of iCloud I get this message since changing Apple user ID I won’t lose any iMessages or such will I? Funnily enough it allowed me to change back my Apple ID to the one I used before just one time. The message didn’t occur but since I’ve gone back to using the Apple email as my ID that message pops up when signing out of iCloud.