Changing Apple ID

Hi Jamieg88

I have tried on numerous occasions to change my appleID to my iCloud email address, with no success. I have spent hours with tech support via online chat and telephone, and was finally told that I was not able to change my appleID to my iCloud address, as my iCloud address is an alias of my appleID and is already linked to my account. The only way to change my appleID to a different address is to use another 3rd party email address, which would have to be verified. The way Apple posts the information on their site about changing your appleID is quite misleading. Sorry I couldn't give you better news but hope it helps with some of the frustration of trying to use your iCloud address for your appleID.

Best Wishes!

Here is something I posted elsewhere this morning, I think it will help you.

You cannot use a different email address in a truly significant way and still have it associated with iCloud.com. Your Apple ID email, whether you realize it or not, is name@iCloud.com, name@me.com, or name@mac.com (i.e.,since you are signed into iCloud.com). Of the three, either or both that are not "officially" your Apple ID email, are aliases for it (assuming you can use one or the other for email). If, for example your "official" Apple ID email is name@mac.com, you can change it so that name@me.com or name@iCloud.com becomes "official" if you are able to get and send email using one or both of them. It makes very little difference which you use as your email address, although some choose to use an email alias for reasons not discussed here. For discussion of most of my points, See "How to change your Apple ID if it ends with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667

You also can set up a second Apple ID that uses a third-party email address, for example, name@yahoo.com. I would not do so because having more that one Apple ID can lead to trouble.

Hi Jamieg88!

I thought I'd give you an update on your post as I have encountered some additional information!

I was researching another problem, when I stumbled across a forum discussing the frustrations of not being able to convert Apple ID's to @iCloud.com email addresses.

Upon further reading I started noticing discussions of people having successes making the switch only after their @iCloud.com address has been listed under their Apple ID for a period of thirty days or more. This piqued my curiosity and thought I'd give the switch another attempt. I went to the appleid.apple.com website, edited my Apple ID with my @iCloud.com address, and it worked! The system finally accepted my @iCloud.com email address as my Apple ID!

If your @iCloud.com address has been listed under your Apple ID for more than thirty days, try making the attempt again. Hopefully it will work this time.

Best wishes!

Read here Change your Apple ID - Apple Support

You say:I cant find any location where I can set my icloud.com address as my primary icloud log in?" Go here: https://appleid.apple.com/#!&page=signin