Changed e-mail address for digital legacy contact

Same issue, here is my detailed problem:

Under Settings -> <My Name> -> Name, Phone Numbers, Email -> Reachable At there are several email addresses and phone numbers. The first one is the email address of my Apple ID, the other email addresses are additional ones where I also can be reached at with iMessage or FaceTime.

When I create a Legacy Contact, that person gets an entry for me but NOT using my Apple ID email address but, in my case, the last additional email address listed under Reachable At. My legacy contact is not aware of this email address meaning it's not in her address book under my contact.

I think this is a bug since the Apple ID email address should be used!

Hello nonicoclolasos,

We'd love to assist you with the Legacy Contact feature. When it is being set up it goes off the Apple ID account used on the device. You can learn more about the feature and the setup process here: How to add a Legacy Contact for your Apple ID

Take care

Hello nonicoclolasos,

The Apple ID account consists of iCloud. Therefore, his actual iCloud email address should in fact be tied to the same Apple ID account.

Best regards

I have the same problem: My AppleID is NOT xyz@icloud.com - it’s xyz@somemaildomain.com. I also own xyz@icloud.com but it’s only a secondary Alias nobody knows.

I invited my legacy contact with my AppleID and this secondary xyz@icloud.com was revealed. As my legacy contact saved me under xyz@somemaildomain.com in contacts, it wasn´t even properly connected to the saved contact.

This is a serious bug that reveals email-adresses to legacy contacts that they are possibly not meant to know. The wrong assumption is that an AppleID has to be @icloud.com so that must be the right email-adress. But that‘s not the case.