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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 Imp68,

    Imp68 Imp68 Jan 22, 2014 6:17 PM in response to stabesm
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    Jan 22, 2014 6:17 PM in response to stabesm

    I can guarantee apple understands the issue.  They aren't stupid.  I imagine there is much that would need to be changed to the infrastructure to accommodate what older account holders want.

     

    In between kicking and screaming over needing to simply have a secondary email address you don't have to use, you may want to provide feedback at apple.com/feedback.  Ranting here on a user to user forum resolves nothing.

  • by Matty Hunt,

    Matty Hunt Matty Hunt Jan 22, 2014 11:32 PM in response to Imp68
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    Jan 22, 2014 11:32 PM in response to Imp68

    Guys, I don't know how but I've done it!!

     

    I complained because I was forced to use a dormant google mail account and all I did was log into iCloud and changed my email address to my iCloud.com address and it's allowed me to do it.

     

    I advise you give it a go!

     

    Good luck

     

    Matt

  • by ivens,

    ivens ivens Jan 22, 2014 11:43 PM in response to Matty Hunt
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    Jan 22, 2014 11:43 PM in response to Matty Hunt

    How about having the @icloud address as your primary Apple ID?

    Did you get it?

  • by chicagopjp,

    chicagopjp chicagopjp Jan 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to Matty Hunt
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    Jan 23, 2014 3:59 AM in response to Matty Hunt

    To whom did you complain?

  • by Ryan T West,

    Ryan T West Ryan T West Feb 1, 2014 6:03 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Feb 1, 2014 6:03 AM in response to reitermoritz

    It's so annoying! I just changed all my email subscriptions and website ID's to icloud.com to start using that as my main email, to then find that I can't use it as my Apple ID.

  • by dr.stuart,

    dr.stuart dr.stuart Mar 3, 2014 11:31 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Mar 3, 2014 11:31 AM in response to reitermoritz

    Any updates to this problem?  I notice that when you set up a new iCloud account on Mavericks, your iCloud account becomes your Apple ID and primary email address.  No need for a Yahoo or Google email anymore.  So is Apple ready to let us early adopters make our iCloud account or Apple ID?

  • by NDgeezerWindy79,

    NDgeezerWindy79 NDgeezerWindy79 Mar 3, 2014 3:16 PM in response to Imp68
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    Mar 3, 2014 3:16 PM in response to Imp68

    My children bought us an iMac and an iPad. We had a Dell with AT&T DSL and Yahoo home. I tried to sign up for their new All-Access program which uses one password. Then they said we still needed a password for the individjual members of the All-Access family. Prety soon I forgot my passowrd for Yahoo. I ended up in a chat situation trying to remember or create a password that would get me back on Yahoo. Instead the Chat agent set me up with a temporary password thast I could use until I created a new one. At the same time my old Yahoo finance lportfolio and email contacts were deleted and I was knocked off my network. I have spent several hours on support systems and chat sessions, but get nothing but a runaround. I am trying to change my Apple ID to one that doesn't contain SBC Global.net. I wanted to simply change the SBC Global to iCloud, since I had changed my email to iCloud -- fightirish@icloud.com. So I need some other words to complete an acceptable ID. I don't want to go back to SBC, even though I own nearly 700 chares of AT&T stock. My wife worked for old Ohio Bell many years ago. We have AT&T DSL, landline and mobile lphones. I'm 79; could I drop Geezer in there in place of SBC Global? Sorry to be so windy, but I'm really frustrated. My wife is very happy with her iPad. We juast enjoyed watching our grandson's lacrosse game that was streamed in from MÅ. We  hope to watch the rest of the games on a TV with a Chromecast.

     

    Jim Weber

    Massillon OH

  • by ba.01,

    ba.01 ba.01 Mar 15, 2014 12:49 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Mar 15, 2014 12:49 AM in response to reitermoritz

    Guys, assuming that I managed to delete my old Apple ID account (which I established on an old Yahoo mail and has a related iCloud Email address : xxxxx@icloud.com), will I be able to create a new Apple ID through an icloud enabled device like my iPhone using the same user name I used in the old Apple ID xxxxx@icloud.com ? Or will they ask me to change to another user name yyyyy@icloud.com ?

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 15, 2014 12:58 AM in response to ba.01
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    Mar 15, 2014 12:58 AM in response to ba.01

    Once an @icloud.com address has been created on one account it can't be moved to another, so you won't be able to do what you ask.

  • by ba.01,

    ba.01 ba.01 Mar 15, 2014 1:12 AM in response to reitermoritz
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:12 AM in response to reitermoritz

    No sir, you misunderstood me. If I managed to permanently delete my old Apple ID, i.e., xxxxx@icloud.com , which is a secondary email in my Yahoo Apple ID, no longer exists, will I be able to create a new Apple ID from scratch with the old user name xxxxx@icloud.com?

  • by ba.01,

    ba.01 ba.01 Mar 15, 2014 1:12 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:12 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    No sir, you misunderstood me. If I managed to permanently delete my old Apple ID, i.e., xxxxx@icloud.com , which is a secondary email in my Yahoo Apple ID, no longer exists, will I be able to create a new Apple ID from scratch with the old user name xxxxx@icloud.com?

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Mar 15, 2014 1:19 AM in response to ba.01
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:19 AM in response to ba.01

    You can't delete an Apple ID; and once any address - @icloud.com or any other address - has been associated with one Apple ID it can't be associated with any other; so I'm afraid that as I said before you cannot do what you ask.

  • by ba.01,

    ba.01 ba.01 Mar 15, 2014 1:25 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:25 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    I have read many articles so far that tell I can delete my old apple ID, check this : http://mandarapte.com/apple/delete-deactivate-apple-id-answer/

  • by snozdop,

    snozdop snozdop Mar 15, 2014 1:32 AM in response to ba.01
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:32 AM in response to ba.01

    Try it then. Even if you are able to get Apple to completely delete your AppleID, it doesn't mean you'll be able to re-use it if you create a new AppleID.

     

    A new AppleID needs to be created from a non-Apple email address, which would exclude the @icloud.com address you want to use. But as you would've deleted that @icloud.com address it wouldn't exist for you to be able to use, even if Apple did allow it.

  • by ba.01,

    ba.01 ba.01 Mar 15, 2014 1:54 AM in response to snozdop
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    Mar 15, 2014 1:54 AM in response to snozdop

    You can create an ICLOUD Apple ID when you sign up for an Apple ID in your enabled iCloud device for the first time. This is the issue, new users can create iCloud Apple ID, but not the old users who are stuck in their old non-apple Apple ID (and it’s related iCloud Email)

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