Problem with Find My iPhone and Apple ID

I had to go to appleid.apple.com,log in, clicked "Manage Your Account", then in the second option on the right was to make my Apple ID match my Email Address. Before I just had the portion of my email before the @somewhere.com. Once I made them match, it worked.

This wasn't explained well at all in the instructions.

This fixed it for me too! Finally, have my appleID changed to be my email address and have Find my Iphone set up on my iPhone4.

Well sadly it does not present me with an option to change my AppleID.
I've tried to change it via the Apple Store account pages, but it just reverts back to what it used to be.

I had an email address as ID, but it still didn't work. I changed the ID now to a different email address of mine and now it works perfectly.
I have no idea what this bug is about, but changing the Apple ID to some other email address of mine did the trick.

Yes, I've tried every page available, but either they don't alloew me to change the AppleID, or they simply don't update it after I edit it.

My account goes way back to the first day of .mac being available - someone else mentioned that accounts this old may be locked?

I had the same issues and I went ahead and deleted my mobile me mail on iphone and then reinstalled it. The functionality worked after syncing it back to mobile me.

The other issue I have now is the "Recents" calls on the Phone apps is still not working. Good luck

appleid.apple.com then log into manage my account edit your email address then save and it will go to verified. Work great thanks micub1979

Loged in again this morning - did exactly the same as I did the previous 3-50 attempts, and this time it worked fine.

Guess they got around to fixing it!

I have the same problem. I have gone to the appleid site. and still it does not work. I have been with apple since the beginning. I can log in to apple id but I cant seem to get the mobile me to work so that i can get find my iphone. My id is a email address so that is not the problem.

Not working... 😟

Steps tried:

1) Find my iThing does accept non-email AppleIDs (further referred as nickname-AppleID). This is known.

2) I used my other AppleID: primary@xxx.xxx (further referred as email-AppleID).

3) Didn't still work, because I did not have a verified email address associated with my email-AppleId.

4) Problem: my primary@xxx.xxx email address is already associated with my nickname-AppleID. According to Apple address cannot be associated to two accounts (why not?).

4) Logged to AppleID.apple.com and added secondary@xxx.xxx email address to my email-AppleID. I also verified this address successfully to my email-AppleID.

5) Just for sure changed password to comply with MobileMe password rules, which are like over 6 characters and has to contain letters & numbers (something like that).

6) Added MobileMe account on iThing and the account was accepted.

7) Problem persists: I cannot get verification email to my secondary address at all, neither to my primary? iThing keeps telling that verification email has been sent to primary@xxx.xxx, but I cannot be sure whether it refers to AppleID or actual email address.

8) Why could they not just accept nickname-AppleIDs? FFS!

Any suggestions? I would rather not create yet another id.

UPDATE: I had to remove my secondary@xxx.xxx address from the account and change the primary@xxx.xxx address (and AppleID) to my secondary@xxx.xxx to get the Fnd my iThing to work. So the email-AppleID has to be same as Primary Email Address in Apple's db to get this working.

F'n annoying...

Okay, new problem. It looked like it was all ready to work. I changed my id to my primary email, but when trying to create the account through mobile me I got an error message saying the "maximum number of free accounts have been activated on this iPhone." From what I have read it seems that there is a three account limit. I am unsure of how three account got registered. Anybody have any idea how to delete account or any other solution to this problem???????