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How to change your Apple ID if it ends with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com

If you use an @icloud.com, @mac.com, or @me.com email address as your Apple ID, you can’t change it to a third party email address. But, you can change it to an alias of your Apple ID address. For example, if j.appleseed@icloud.com is your Apple ID and you also have j.appleseed@me.com on file in your account, you can change your Apple ID to j.appleseed@me.com. When you change your email address, the Apple ID that people see when they share with you also changes.

To find an eligible email address that you can use as your Apple ID login, sign in to your Apple ID account page and click Edit under the Account section. You see Reachable At and a login alias with a question mark icon . If you hover over the icon, you see a message that says, "This is an alias of your Apple ID email address."