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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 gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Oct 12, 2014 7:22 AM in response to bluefox34
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    Oct 12, 2014 7:22 AM in response to bluefox34

    I agree that everyone that doesn't "get it" is not stupid. In fact, most of them are simply naive or gullible. However, some of them are just idiots, or worse yet, are just lazy....

     

    However, I also think that if people want to indulge in using technology, they need to take a little personal responsibility. It's not like the dangers of being hacked have not been widely reported. It's also not like there aren't tons of resources available to educate oneself. If a person can spend hours at a time surfing the net, then they can also spend a little bit of time to use that same tool to get educated.

     

    A lot of people who post to this forum are simply clueless, and I really feel for them when something untoward has happened. For people like that, I want to reach out and do anything I can to help them. But then there are the people who post who are angry that things weren't done magically for them. They haven't take the time to find out how things work, so they want to blame everyone but themselves for the issues they are having.

     

    And every time Apple does employ extra security to protect those users who just don't know any better, there are tons of other users who lash out about Apple trying to be "Big Brother", and Apple not giving them the choice to, say, not get alert emails when someone signs onto Find My iPhone from an iOS device. I can't tell you how many people get furious about the Activation Lock. So, it is really not a winnable situation. There is only so much hand-holding that can be done....

     

    GB

  • by bluefox34,

    bluefox34 bluefox34 Oct 12, 2014 8:40 AM in response to gail from maine
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    Oct 12, 2014 8:40 AM in response to gail from maine

    Agreed. For the record, I am not interested in yours or anyone else's account.

  • by mjackiw,

    mjackiw mjackiw Oct 18, 2014 4:02 PM in response to reitermoritz
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    Oct 18, 2014 4:02 PM in response to reitermoritz

    (Ignoring the childish arguing)

     

    Actually you need to maintain three email accounts. The non-Apple one, the iCloud one, and an emergency one that can't be either of the other two.

  • by pmossino,

    pmossino pmossino Apr 27, 2015 4:48 PM in response to s_rafida
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    Apr 27, 2015 4:48 PM in response to s_rafida

    Are you really that out of touch?

  • by pmossino,

    pmossino pmossino Apr 27, 2015 5:06 PM in response to s_rafida
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    Apr 27, 2015 5:06 PM in response to s_rafida

    I have been led to believe I can create a new account and use an icloud.com email address as my primary email account.

    If this is possible I would like to create a new account with an icloud.com email address as my primary email account and stop using my existing account.

    Is there a downside to this?

  • by Imp68,

    Imp68 Imp68 Apr 27, 2015 5:40 PM in response to pmossino
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    Apr 27, 2015 5:40 PM in response to pmossino

    All your purchases will remain tied to the current ID and cannot be transferred to the new one you'd make.  If you don't care, or don't have any purchases, have at it.

  • by pmossino,

    pmossino pmossino Apr 27, 2015 6:11 PM in response to Imp68
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    Apr 27, 2015 6:11 PM in response to Imp68

    Yep, loosing all the music from iTunes.  But I think that's the way I'll go, for me the lesser of two evils.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 27, 2015 6:13 PM in response to pmossino
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    Apr 27, 2015 6:13 PM in response to pmossino

    You will not lose any music, you can just authorize iTunes for the old ID and the music will play, just like it it always did.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Apr 27, 2015 8:03 PM in response to pmossino
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    Apr 27, 2015 8:03 PM in response to pmossino

    You cannot create a new Apple ID using any Apple domain: @me.com, @mac.com, or @iCloud.com.

     

    An @iCloud.com email address is email address that is associated with the iCloud account that is tied to another Apple ID.

     

    You can change your primary Apple ID to (or set up a new Apple ID using) any other valid email address except an Apple domain address.

     

    If you EDIT an existing Apple ID to a new email address, all purchases under that Apple ID remain with that Apple ID. If you set up a new Apple ID, all purchases made with the previous ID, and the associated iCloud account stay with previous ID, and a brand new iCloud account and all new purchases need to be made with the new ID.

     

    Cheers,

     

    GB

  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 Apr 27, 2015 11:53 PM in response to gail from maine
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    Apr 27, 2015 11:53 PM in response to gail from maine

    Unless anything has changed since this was reported some time back, you can create a new Apple ID which is also the @icloud.com address provided you do so from the iCloud preference pane as detailed in this post:

     

    Re: I wish to transfer my Apple ID to a new iCloud account

     

    You cannot use an existing @icloud.com address. As said above, if you sign into iTunes with the new ID your purchases will not be transferred: there is nothing to stop you signing into iCloud with the new ID and iTunes with the old ID.

     

    If you open an iCloud account using the @icloud.com address as the ID/login then you need to provide a non-Apple address as the 'rescue' address otherwise if something goes wrong and you are unable to access the account Apple will not be able to contact you.

  • by gail from maine,

    gail from maine gail from maine Apr 28, 2015 11:16 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1
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    Apr 28, 2015 11:16 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

    Wow - that's something I had no idea was even possible! Thanks for pointing me to that post, Roger! I stand corrected and newly knowledgeable!

     

    Cheers and Thanks!

     

    GB

  • by ARB-82,

    ARB-82 ARB-82 Apr 30, 2015 4:08 AM in response to gail from maine
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    Apr 30, 2015 4:08 AM in response to gail from maine

    While this is true for new accounts, it's still ridicoulous the early users of iCloud cannot do this.

     

    If you have a non-Apple email as your AppleID you can still not change it to a me.com or icloud.com email address.

     

    Apart from being complicated and confusing there is also a huge security risk here.

    Many people will simply use something like an old Gmail account that they don't frequently access.

     

    All email regarding your AppleID will ONLY be sent to the primary email address.

    So, while you can use your iCloud address as an alternate AppleID and use it everywhere, all communications regarding AppleID are always sent to the primary address.

     

    This whole situation is completly ridicoulous and not in the Apple spirit of keeping things safe and simple.

     

    Apple Support knows about the problem for a while, but says it simply can't do anything about it as it is an 'engineering' issue.

    This should be fixed ASAP.

  • by Matthew Palm,

    Matthew Palm Matthew Palm Apr 30, 2015 7:56 AM in response to ARB-82
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    Apr 30, 2015 7:56 AM in response to ARB-82

    I agree, this is a huge pain. But you can indeed make your @me/@icloud email your primary email address, and all correspondence will then be sent to that address. Also, you can actually log in using your @me email. Of course, you can also use your old legacy Apple ID email to log in, and it will often appear as your "user name" when you are logged in to some services, but I've found this is a decent work-around.

  • by Ski22,

    Ski22 Ski22 Apr 30, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Matthew Palm
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    Apr 30, 2015 8:06 AM in response to Matthew Palm

    There is not a current way to change Apple correspondence to a @icloud/@me address, nor can you change your primary email address to a @icloud/@me address.  We know you can login using your @.me/@icloud address, but Apple correspondence goes to your primary email address, which cannot be a @icloud/@me address. 

  • by Matthew Palm,

    Matthew Palm Matthew Palm Apr 30, 2015 8:17 AM in response to Ski22
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    Apr 30, 2015 8:17 AM in response to Ski22

    Wow, I did not know that they removed that option. I know I was able to change my primary email address (not my Apple ID) to my @me email, and I thought that was still available. Are you sure?

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