Changing Apple ID

If an email address has been in any way associated with an Apple ID (for example as a contact address) then you can't use it even after it's been removed for a period which we don't know - possibly 30 days, possibly a year - both have been suggested but nobody actually seems to know.

As things stand you won't be able to use the address you want. Howwever I would suggest that it's not a good idea for your sign-in to be the same as the address you give out to people, for scrutiy reasons: you could create a free address such as GMail or Yahoo and use that just as the login.

The Email address you have initially used to create your Apple ID, from apple point of view is nothing but a label addressing your actual Apple ID, and you can change that under Apple ID setting.

After using an existence email like "me@yahoo.com.au" to crate your Apple ID, apple will create your default email address extracted from your originally used to create your Apple ID, resulting to have an email address with apple as in form of "me@icloud.com" . When ever you login to your iCloud on any device, this email will be available by default.

in your case, I think your best option is to go Apple ID setup page and change your Apple ID to the one you preferred.

masoud666 wrote:

in your case, I think your best option is to go Apple ID setup page and change your Apple ID to the one you preferred.

As the OP stated, he tried that but could not use the one he wanted because it was already, or had recently been, associated with an Apple ID.

If you disable your current account and create a new Apple ID, you won't be able to transfer your past purchases to your new account. Purchases are tied to the account that made them.

So as I advised before use your actual iCloud email address which's exclusive for you only.