I have an Apple ID that predates iCloud. It used a gmail email address. How do I add an iCloud address to the Apple ID account?
iMac Line (2012 and Later)
I don't want a new apple ID. I want to add an iCloud email address to an existing Apple ID.
I don't want a new apple ID. I want to add an iCloud email address to an existing Apple ID.
See if anything here helps.
iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses. *
OK, this just got weird.
I could not add an alias in Mac Mail on my Mac, so I went to icloud.com. I was able to add a different alias there. Then shut everything down and rebooted.
Now, the Mac Mail account has both the aliases BUT not the email that I used for my apple ID. BUT the email I used for my apple ID is in the account as the user ID (that makes sense).
The iCloud aliases work to send email.
If I choose the email that is the actual account email (not iCloud), I can't send email.
Weird #2: now that I used iCloud.com to add an alias, I went to MacMail to remove the unwanted one. This time, rather than opening a window in MacMail, it opened iCloud.com!
Part of the problem is that my Apple ID was created a decade before there was iCloud. So, I've always had problems getting it to figure out what's happening.
Try making the changes the link below. See if the Gmail address can be made to be the primary account email as it was before.
Go to appleid.apple.com, click on the "Apple ID" button and enter the email you want to use for your Apple ID.
How do I add a new iCloud email address to an Old Apple ID?
