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User profile for user: iamvoss
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Change Apple ID Email

I am trying to use a newly created @icloud.com email account. I want to use this @icloud.com email to replace my Apple ID email. However, I am getting an "i You can only add the @icloud.com address that is already on file in your account" error message. I have an old @icloud.com email account that was created in 2012. I found that I can use that old @icloud.com email to replace my Apple ID email but I didn't push through it because I don't want to use that old @icloud.com email account. I am getting the message Change your Apple ID to ? 


"If you make this change, yiou will no longer be able to use third party email addresses as your Apple ID. you will be able to use @icloud.com or ********** @me"


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Posted on Sep 11, 2021 5:29 PM

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User profile for user: Eric Root
Eric Root
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Posted on Sep 12, 2021 10:24 AM

If you created a new iCloud.com email address, you created a new Apple ID. Email addresses from one Apple ID can't be use on another Apple ID. As the error message showed, you can only add the @icloud.com address that is already on file in your account.


Based on what I have read, I suggest you leave your Apple ID email address as a 3rd party email address because you have more flexibility if you need to change the email address. For example, if the Apple ID got compromised, you can change it to another address. I also have read of many people who were locked out of their accounts when they forgot their password. Since the recovery email address is the @iCloud email address, if you forget your password, you also can't access your email to get emails from Apple to recover your account. You can set a rescue email address, but for some people, this hasn't worked.

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Eric Root
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Sep 12, 2021 10:24 AM in response to iamvoss

If you created a new iCloud.com email address, you created a new Apple ID. Email addresses from one Apple ID can't be use on another Apple ID. As the error message showed, you can only add the @icloud.com address that is already on file in your account.


Based on what I have read, I suggest you leave your Apple ID email address as a 3rd party email address because you have more flexibility if you need to change the email address. For example, if the Apple ID got compromised, you can change it to another address. I also have read of many people who were locked out of their accounts when they forgot their password. Since the recovery email address is the @iCloud email address, if you forget your password, you also can't access your email to get emails from Apple to recover your account. You can set a rescue email address, but for some people, this hasn't worked.

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