Gmail vs iCloud Apple ID, any advantage?

[Mftek1]

Hello everyone.
I'm a little confused with this whole iCloud thing. I currrntly have it setup like this:

@icloud which I use for iCloud/contacts/backups/email

@gmail which I also use for email/Apple ID

I noticed that if I sign out of my gmail Apple ID, it lets me sign in as my @icloud as a completely different Apple ID.

I'm thinking I should just use my @icloud for both so I don't have separate accounts? Not sure if it makes any difference?

 

[C DM]

So you basically have two different/separate Apple IDs? (Both basically capable of using iCloud and essentially all of the same things.)

 

[Mftek1]

So you basically have two different/separate Apple IDs? (Both basically capable of using iCloud and essentially all of the same things.)

Correct. 1 gmail and 1 iCloud.
Just wondering if their is any benefit of using one over the other? (Since iCloud is made by Apple)

 

[C DM]

Correct. 1 gmail and 1 iCloud.
Just wondering if their is any benefit of using one over the other? (Since iCloud is made by Apple)

They are basically the same. Your Apple ID that is associated with your Gmail account can also have an iCloud account as part of it too.

It's just a username that's different between them, in one case you are using a username that ends on gmail.com and in the other icloud.com, but they are the same type of accounts. It's basically just down to what you have on each one and having it all on one account if you want to use that account.

 

[bizack]

Hello everyone.
I'm a little confused with this whole iCloud thing. I currrntly have it setup like this:

@icloud which I use for iCloud/contacts/backups/email

@gmail which I also use for email/Apple ID

I noticed that if I sign out of my gmail Apple ID, it lets me sign in as my @icloud as a completely different Apple ID.

I'm thinking I should just use my @icloud for both so I don't have separate accounts? Not sure if it makes any difference?

I do this on purpose in the off chance someone manages to get my email and password. My app store email and password is completely different than my Apple ID for iCloud.

 

[C DM]

Hello everyone.
I'm a little confused with this whole iCloud thing. I currrntly have it setup like this:

@icloud which I use for iCloud/contacts/backups/email

@gmail which I also use for email/Apple ID

I noticed that if I sign out of my gmail Apple ID, it lets me sign in as my @icloud as a completely different Apple ID.

I'm thinking I should just use my @icloud for both so I don't have separate accounts? Not sure if it makes any difference?

By the way, where are you signing in and out? Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing.

 

[petbird]

No advantages. iCloud is more for people who do not already have a email like gmail or yahoo.. etc. Apple has icloud to make emails for those people as it is required by apple to have a email.