iOS 5 insists on "Update Apple ID", but won't accept my e-mail address

I've entered my email address associated with my Apple ID and get the same thing. Hopefully someone knows what is going on.

It should be yourID@gmail right ?

Why gmail? I don't have a yourID@gmail.com account. Are you referring to Apple ID?

Is a gmail account required? Does that need to replace the email I already have associated with my Apple ID?

I've got exactly the same problem. It has the log in screen where I put my apple id and password, then it tells me I need to enter my e-mail address, which I do and it then informs me that it is already in use!

So I can't even get into my own phone after this update. Let alone the fact that every time I connect it to itunes it immediately says "restoring iphone apps" and won't let me access anything.

Nice one Apple!!!

This update blows! Time for a restore...which I think is not possible. Shuweet!

that is pretty much it..

first login: apple ID + Password

second login: any of your email adresses you want to use for your appleID email whatsoever.... you can probably change it (which i am not sure of right now) afterwards.

this email adress can't be an adress you have already used in your appleID account

Well, it is certainly a bit of a stupid thing that apple have done where you have to enter a completely different e-mail address to the one you registered with. But you can change it back after you've set everything up, so I guess it's not so bad in the end. Not sure what the point of using a different e-mail is. But hopefully everyone is getting round it like that now.

I am with everyone here that this is something that should have been caught in testing. I got through to support earlier today and they told me to go to appleid.apple.com to change my AppleID to my email address. Well first of all, like just about every other apple site today, it's hosed. Secondly, I actually tried a workaround and went into iTunes to the AppleStore and into my account. It lets you change your AppleID there, but I was getting the same error message of "that username is already in use". Well, umm, yeah - it's me!

I took the suggestion on this board and put in another email account (my work account - ugh!) just to get my phone back. I really hope I can set it back later,

Anyone know of any negative ramifications of this?

I was able to get around this by signing in with my old non-email Apple id here:

http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/manage/

and merging the two. I don't remember the exact wording, but it resolved the issue.

Same here - when I signed in (on the web), there was a box asking if I wanted to "Make your Apple ID and primary email address one and the same".

If yoou try to manually change your Apple ID, you will get the duplicate email error. However, I clicked the button and now I can sign in to my iPhone.

I had the same error. Turns out I had two AppleID's, and I was trying to use my current email address, but it was verified with my other AppleID. You need to sign in to your old AppleID and remove your current email address from that account. I hope this helps!

Wow I feel like a dummy, if you go to the beginning screen on the very bottom right hand corner it says skips this step. this was to set up icloud. if you dont have it you can skip and it works just fine

Togdon, how did you merge your two ID's. I've done most of my purchases with my non-email ID. If I use the ID with my e-mail address will I be able to access all the stuff I bought under my non-email ID?

I also just went to the Apple ID page http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/manage/

there's a button there that allows you to merge your primary email address and your non-email Apple ID

fixed the problem right away