It disturbs me that my Google Gmail account became an 1Cloud email account without my knowledge and permission. It reminds me of the "1984" Apple ads that launched the Macintosh. I'm simply not comfortable surrendering all my work to somewhere or someone I don't know -- especially since I've had so many identity problems that remain unresolved.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.13
Hello David Henderson7,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. It looks like your Google email account is set up as an Apple ID, and we'd be happy to take a look into this with you.
In order to use an email address as an Apple ID, you have to follow certain steps, and there is no way that have been done without your permission. Please check this out:
If you would like to change your Apple ID email address, and use an email other than your Google email, please follow these steps:
If you have any concerns about your account, please reach out to the Account Security team here:
We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.
Hello David Henderson7,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities. It looks like your Google email account is set up as an Apple ID, and we'd be happy to take a look into this with you.
In order to use an email address as an Apple ID, you have to follow certain steps, and there is no way that have been done without your permission. Please check this out:
If you would like to change your Apple ID email address, and use an email other than your Google email, please follow these steps:
If you have any concerns about your account, please reach out to the Account Security team here:
We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.
Thank you for responding. After 30 happy years with Apple products and service, I've fallen into months of identity quicksand. My first Apple ID was ******h@comcast.net that gathered over 400,000 emails, along with about 250,000 for my business address -- ******s@comcast.net. Then I moved in 2009 from San Mateo County, California, to Carbon County, Montana, where Comcast does not provide Internet service. Hence, I could not use Comcast in my email or Apple ID and Google would not accept the ******h part of my email address. I was forced into a new Apple ID, and I tried several that were rejected either by Apple or Google. Today, I'm still receiving Apple notices to provide a password update for the defunct "******h@comcast.net" ID that is long gone. And now the iCloud mail has thrown another challenge into my business and personal affairs. After a had built thousands of email contacts around the Internet for the past 20 years of publishing, I am now "out of business" and very, very tired.
There's more to this case, but I will have to return tomorrow.
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Just my opinion, but when you’re using an email for your own personal business, it is never a good idea to use any commercial service for the address (including iCloud). Pay to get an account with a hosting service and register your own domain to use with your email. My hosting service costs me less that $18 per month, and I have several domains registered. I then create my own email addresses from my own domains and thus those will always be my addresses, even if I moved to a different hosting service.
Back in 2001 after dealing with the very issue you’re facing through the 1990’s, I registered my domains and my personal and other email addresses have never changed once since, no matter how many times I change ISPs or move. You don’t need to use a hosting service for a web site - I don’t have a personal web site, but I do pay for a hosting service to park my domains and keep my email consistent over time, regardless of who provides my home internet service.
A hosting service also, btw, offers typically much more control over your email than other providers of email. I have my own server side white and blacklists (which also allow use of wildcards so entire domains or even countries can be blocked), and advanced server side spam filtering and rules filtering.
I don't understand how my email account with Google Gmail became an iCloud email account without permission or notification.
