Hello,
I recently changed my Apple ID from my old email address to my @me address, all has changed successfully, but I now keep getting a popup on my Macbook asking for the Password to the old Apple ID.
I have removed iCloud cache from the Macbook and have signed out and back in with the new Apple ID.
Does anyone know how I can remove the old Apple ID without me having to resort to reformat?
Cheers
If you have changed your ID or password, have you followed the steps in this article?
What to do after you change your Apple ID or password - Apple Support
Have you tried signing out of iCloud, restarting the computer, and then signing back in?
Note that your @me.com email address is nothing more than an alias to whatever @iCloud.com you created for it before the entire MobileMe service was turned off back in 2012. So changing your AppleID used with that iCloud to the alias @me.com address really changes nothing at all for that iCloud account. It’s still the exact same account, just using the alias as the primary login ID instead of the previous (primary) email address.
E.g. I use a third party email address as my AppleID (it’s been my AppleID for ~20 years so predates @mac.com, @me.com and icloud), but I can login to my iCloud account using that address, my @me.com address or my @icloud.com address since all three emails are assigned to the same iCloud account. The one listed in my AppleID as “primary” does not affect also using the other two as aliases for the same account.
iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
You are welcome. Can you tell where the request for the old ID password is coming from? App Store/iTunes?
It's for iCloud it self; here is a screenshot.
There is no reference to my old iCloud address anywhere within my iCloud settings or iTunes. Also I cannot find any traces of it on my Macbook (but from the popup I'm obviously not looking hard enough haha).
Thanks for your reply Eric, yes I have followed those steps.
This did the trick thank you very VERY much Eric!
Hi Michael, my old address was a Yahoo and I just wanted to remove all of the data I had with Yahoo, as I no longer used the email address.
You are welcome.
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