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iPhone 3GS won't let me make me.com address

iBlazed

iBlazed

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Feb 27, 2014
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I'm trying to set up my grandmother with her first iPhone, it's an 8GB 3GS I had laying around. I decided to set her up with a fresh new iCloud account so it isn't connected to mine. When I set up my iCloud account and my parents accounts when the service first came out, it let us choose @me.com addresses. All of us have them and I definitely prefer them. However, when I tried to create an account for my grandma, it only let's me choose @icloud.com. Is there any way to change it to @me.com?
 
iBlazed said:
I'm trying to set up my grandmother with her first iPhone, it's an 8GB 3GS I had laying around. I decided to set her up with a fresh new iCloud account so it isn't connected to mine. When I set up my iCloud account and my parents accounts when the service first came out, it let us choose @me.com addresses. All of us have them and I definitely prefer them. However, when I tried to create an account for my grandma, it only let's me choose @icloud.com. Is there any way to change it to @me.com?
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No I don't believe there is. Apple discontinued mobile me for iCloud and that's now the only way forward. I agree @me is much cooler but hey
 
iBlazed said:
But the thing is, we didn't have @me addresses UNTIL we set up iCloud. We were never MobileMe customers.
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I may be wrong but I believe there was a period after iCloud launched where customers were still able to create me.com email addresses. It sounds like that's how you got yours but Apple put an end to that after a while.
 
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I may be wrong but I believe there was a period after iCloud launched where customers were still able to create me.com email addresses. It sounds like that's how you got yours but Apple put an end to that after a while.
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Oh. Makes sense. That sucked, me.com is way better. Glad I got one of those while they were available.
 
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