HT201771: iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses

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Newton2x
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Q: Delete iCloud Alias and create new iCloud account w/ same characters@

What's up People!  I've had mobile me for years and created aliases on my account when each of my children were born ("child's name@me.com").

 

The kids are growing up and it's time to transefer their aliases off to individual iCloud accounts.  I called apple and the support tech didn't have any insight into how deleting the alias would play out.

 

Here's what i want to do:

  1. Delete the kids alias from my account
  2. Create new iCloud account from my kid's iPad

 

The question remains how deleting the alias from my account will play in freeing it up in the account creation name check availability database when i go to create the individual account.

 

Questions:

  1. Will deleting the alias release the user id in the iCloud user id database to allow for the creation of the new account?
  2. If it will, how long does it take to update the name as availible in the iCloud user id database?

 

 

Thanks for any well thought out comments in advance.

iPad Air, iOS 8.1.1

Posted on May 11, 2015 7:25 AM

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Q: Delete iCloud Alias and create new iCloud account w/ same characters@

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  • by Roger Wilmut1,

    Roger Wilmut1 Roger Wilmut1 May 11, 2015 8:09 AM in response to Newton2x
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    May 11, 2015 8:09 AM in response to Newton2x

    I'm afraid this is not possible. Once an email alias is created it's permanently tied to the account which created it, even if you delete it. You can't move it to another account nor make it into an account itself.

     

    This is a difficulty which arises with kids' aliases. Once they get old enough for their own accounts (and don't want you reading their emails) they are going to have to get new addresses. You could set up a Rule to forward emails to an alias to the new address to cover things until everyone's updated their address books. (I think most people are used to the concept of email addresses changing - it happens quite a lot as people switch ISPs).