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I have two email addresses. My Apple ID - for my iMac -- has one, and my iPhone has a different one. I cannot make them the same because Apple tells me that the email is taken when I try to change the ID to one or the other. What do I do?
It sounds like instead of simply signing out of one account and into the other you are somehow managing to try to set up a new account (which Apple will not let you do with an email address it has seen before).
Read this document to learn how to sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac --> Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac - Apple Support
Read this support article to learn how to sign in with your Apple ID on different devices--> Sign in with your Apple ID - Apple Support
It sounds like instead of simply signing out of one account and into the other you are somehow managing to try to set up a new account (which Apple will not let you do with an email address it has seen before).
Read this document to learn how to sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac --> Sign out of iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac - Apple Support
Read this support article to learn how to sign in with your Apple ID on different devices--> Sign in with your Apple ID - Apple Support
It sounds like what you want to do is merge IDs which is something Apple does not support officially. You would need to sign out of iCloud on one of your devices and sign in with the ID used on the other so both devices are using the same account. Note that doing this would entail some loss of data
That's what I was afraid of. Apple won't let me change IDs at all -- so I cannot have the same ID on my Mac and my phone -- which means I cannot sync music to the iPhone, among other problems. When I try to change IDs it tells me that the other ID is already taken. Frustrating as **** -- but THANK YOU for helping!
Apple ID Management
