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Q: Why can't I use my iCloud email address as my Apple ID

When I want to enter my iCloud email address (like foo@icloud.com) as my Apple ID, the system at appleid.apple.com tells me that I can't use an email address with a domain owned by Apple as my Apple ID which I find odd enough. I tried to create a new Apple ID through appleid.apple.com just to see what happens and even then it says that you cannot use an email address with an Apple domain.

 

It becomes even more odd when you consider that, if I'm not wrong, you can very well create a new Apple ID and use a new @icloud.com email address if you do it with an iPhone.

 

I can use my iCloud address as the primary email address of my Apple ID account so it's not a huge problem, but it still annoys me a little bit that the name of my Apple ID has to continue being my obsolete Gmail address.

 

Does anyone have more information on this?

Posted on Oct 15, 2012 8:48 AM

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  • by mswcpt,

    mswcpt mswcpt Nov 25, 2013 4:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 4:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    I'm sorry, but this is PRECISELY what we want to avoid: "Create a new email address, for example  at Yahoo or Gmail, or anywhere convenient (or you can use an existing address as long as it has never been associated with an Apple ID)"

     

    If the reponses are read thoroughly, this is exactly what we as Apple customers do not want. I, as with the others, do NOT want a bloomin' Yahoo or Gmail email address...  That is the problem!

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Nov 25, 2013 4:30 AM in response to mswcpt
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    Nov 25, 2013 4:30 AM in response to mswcpt

    I realize that, but obviously it's not a problem I can solve. You can create a new Apple ID and make it a new iCloud address, but you can't make the iCloud address belonging to an existing Apple ID into the login for that ID, and I'm afraid that's an absolute.

     

    If you want to complain to Apple about this you can send feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html. You won't get a response but your feedback will be read.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Nov 25, 2013 4:36 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Nov 25, 2013 4:36 AM in response to reitermoritz

    reitermoritz wrote:

     

    For god's sake, Roger, would you please stop it? What you explain there has nothing to do with the problem.

    I'm sorry if you found my post, explaining what you can do, unhelpful, but your problem is that you want to do something you can't do, and nothing posted here can change that. I've posted the feedback URL in my post above.

     

    And, incidentally, Dave Black, to whom I was actually responding, asked what would happen if the service providing the address which forms his ID should go out of business, and I answered that.

  • by Dave Black,

    Dave Black Dave Black Nov 25, 2013 5:18 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Nov 25, 2013 5:18 AM in response to reitermoritz

    Bless your heart Roger, your advice is great but not valid to the subject matter.

     

    Subj Matter: We do not want our icloud accounts tied to an offshore email account. I'm using "offshore" as an acronym here. Some will get that, others will not.

  • by mswcpt,

    mswcpt mswcpt Nov 25, 2013 5:50 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 5:50 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Thanks Roger - I will give them feedback, because this is corporate manipulation of the consumer. I want NOTHING to do with gmail or yahoo but we are forced to create free email aliases with online webmail companies like that in order to have a valid Apple ID/iCloud setup if you just so happened to do it wrong during the initial setup of your Apple accounts. It does grate my gander when consumers are forced to do things like this by big corporates.

  • by reitermoritz,

    reitermoritz reitermoritz Nov 25, 2013 6:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 6:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Roger, you say: "I realize that, but obviously it's not a problem I can solve." I know that you can't. But why waste your and my time offering solutions to a different problems no one asked for? It's not helpful, it's a red herring, it's annoying and it already was when you did the same thing in another thread about the issue (https://discussions.apple.com/message/21936466#21936466). You refuse to acknowledge the point people here are complaining about. That's fine, you do not have to acknowledge anything, but please stop acting as if you could be helpful here.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Nov 25, 2013 8:11 AM in response to Dave Black
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    Nov 25, 2013 8:11 AM in response to Dave Black

    Dave Black wrote:

     

    Bless your heart Roger, your advice is great but not valid to the subject matter.

     

    Subj Matter: We do not want our icloud accounts tied to an offshore email account. I'm using "offshore" as an acronym here. Some will get that, others will not.

    You did ask 'What if my offshore account goes out of business? Will that KILL my master icloud account?' and I offered you the procedure to follow should that event occur.

  • by reitermoritz,

    reitermoritz reitermoritz Nov 25, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Gee, Roger, your faux-naïv attitude is unbelievable.

  • by Cristian Gobbo,

    Cristian Gobbo Cristian Gobbo Nov 25, 2013 8:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 8:17 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Roger, honestly I agree with others in the sense that you are suggesting the solution to another problem. That is not the problem we want to solve. Despite the undelying motivation, technically we want our MASTER icloud ID to be an @icloud.com address. Something that seems not possible so far.

     

    But anyway thanks for the URL, I will write to apple about this issue. Honestly I do not care if this is a lot of work for them. When I buy those expensive devices I seriously pretend a superior service.

     

    Ciao.

  • by Matty Hunt,

    Matty Hunt Matty Hunt Nov 25, 2013 8:46 AM in response to Cristian Gobbo
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    Nov 25, 2013 8:46 AM in response to Cristian Gobbo

    Nail on head Christian:

     

    "We want our MASTER icloud ID to be an @icloud.com address"

     

    Is that too much to ask for Apple?

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Nov 25, 2013 9:02 AM in response to Matty Hunt
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    Nov 25, 2013 9:02 AM in response to Matty Hunt

    Matty Hunt wrote:

     

    "We want our MASTER icloud ID to be an @icloud.com address"

    I'm a little reluctant to post what follows because it's bound to give someone indigestion. However, may I just offer something for consideration.

     

    There are two serious disadvantages to having the same email address for the login and as the actual iCloud address.

     

    1. If there is no other email address associated with an iCloud account and something goes wrong with it - it gets corrupted, for example, or you forget the password - Apple can only communicate with you through an address you no longer have access to.

     

    2. If the login is the same as the publicly known email address, anyone can lock you out of your account - either maliciously or because they are a twerp who thinks they own your address (which sounds bizarre but does happen) simply by logging in three times with the wrong password. They you are forced to change your password in the Apple ID page and on all your devices. Then they do it again. And so on.  This happened quite a lot in the days of MobileMe when all logins were the account address.

     

    You may well feel that these disadvantages do not outweight the convenience of using the account address as the login, in which case posting on the feedback page at http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html will bring your comment to Apple's direct attention.

  • by reitermoritz,

    reitermoritz reitermoritz Nov 25, 2013 9:09 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 9:09 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Roger, again, you are completely missing the point and you posted the exact same babble in the other thread on this issue (https://discussions.apple.com/message/21936466#21936466) and were already proved wrong there. You do not have to contribute anything to the issue, so why can't you just leave it there?

     

    I am interested in the development in this case and I don't want to miss news from someone who actually has to contribute relevant information. So I do want to keep this thread in my email notifications. Your stubbornly ignorant non-contributions just keep stealing my time.

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Nov 25, 2013 9:16 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Nov 25, 2013 9:16 AM in response to reitermoritz

    Well, I don't remember what I posted last March: but I'm happy to promise not to post again in this thread as I wouldn't want to provoke any more mis-spelled French .

  • by reitermoritz,

    reitermoritz reitermoritz Nov 25, 2013 9:23 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Nov 25, 2013 9:23 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    I'll more than gladly allow you the satisfaction of pointing to spelling errors I did if you keep your promise.

  • by Cristian Gobbo,

    Cristian Gobbo Cristian Gobbo Nov 25, 2013 9:41 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Nov 25, 2013 9:41 AM in response to reitermoritz

    Dear guys,

     

    I am glad to see there is so much passion about these discussions. Nevertheless, let's not loose the focus on the goal this thread is about.

     

    Furthermore keeping on receiving mails about two cursing persons is somehow annoying.

     

    Thanks for the collaboration

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