Facetime error: "Unable to verify email because it is already in use."
imac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 4 GB ram
imac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 4 GB ram
rimi, You finally hit on the right solution. I have been a little haphazard in creating Apple IDs over the years. Partly Apple's fault for not making it clear that iTunes and the Store etc. all use the same ID. Anyway, after a couple of chats and some experimentation I discovered that I actually had 4 Apple IDs! The oldest one wasn't even an email address it was more like a user name. My primary email address was associated that name and was keeping the more recent IDs from associating with FaceTime properly since I was trying to use the primary email address in a newer account that was a dup of the original account.
If you go to link https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa?localang=en_US
you can look up your ID by entering your expected email addresses. It found my primary old account and reset the PW but I couldn't then log in because I didn't have the correct ID. The solution was to change the email address in accounts I could see to something besides the primary address (I used real addresses, apparently you found that bogus ones would work too.) Then I could search for the primary address in my original ID, reset the PW and finally get logged in to the original account.
FYI, I called Apple help a couple of times and asked them to tell me my accounts, but they didn't see (or least didn't mention) the oldest one that was causing the issue by having my primary email associated with more than one Apple ID. Unfortunately Apple apparently has no way to merge into one account. The only option is to delete an account but you loose any purchases made against that account.
Ok does anyone know why I'm getting a time out error everytime I try to Verify my account
I think we have a solution if you are not able to get an email address to verify correctly in FaceTime on your iPad. If you go to Settings>General and then scroll to the bottom of the page...you'll see Reset Settings. Select that and then select Reset All Settings. Once you have done this you should be able to set up FaceTime normally again.
This worked for us after hours of frustration! 😀
Hope this helps someone....
Facetime error: "Unable to verify email because it is already in use."