iCloud and a new me.com account: can't use it as a primary address in my AppleID.

Yes my current id is the gmail address. I don't like the fact that my apple id is so intimately connected to one of their main competitors. What would happen if I lost access to my google account? Scary stuff. Hopefully this issue will also be addressed when/if they release a merge tool for those who have two accounts.

The thing that annoys me most about all of this, is that iCloud calendar appointments are sent from the primary Apple ID email address rather than my me.com email address. I would like to stop using my old email address, and just use me.com exclusively, but cannot, since I cannot send calendar appointments from it!

Hi Matthew

This may sound silly but is your me.com account the default email address?

Hi Ashtrinder,

My @me.com email address is the default address for mail on my iphone and ipad, and is the address from which mail is sent using iCloud on the web. My apple ID and primary email address (as defined at appleid.apple.com) is my old email address that I no longer want to use. If I try to change my apple ID and primary email address at appleid.apple.com to my @me.com email address, I get the message "You cannot create an Apple ID using a MobileMe account. If this is your email address, it is also your Apple ID."

Calendar invitations created on my iphone/ipad and on iCloud on the web are all sent from the email that is my Apple ID, I cannot change this, and I cannot change my Apple ID to my @me.com email.

I spoke to Apple support about this, they agreed that it was not ideal, but said there was nothing they could do. They recommended that I provide feedback about the issue.

If you have any ideas, that would be great.

Hi Matthew

The AppleID thing is an on-going saga with Apple, they need to accept that if they encourage the @me.com email address then their systems need to be able to cope with them!

Regarding your invitations that doesnt seem correct in all honesty, do you sign into your icloud account via your @me.com address or other provider?

Hi Ashtrinder,

Yes, I signed in to icloud using my @me.com email address. If I send myself a calendar invite (to an alternative hotmail address that I don't have registered with apple) it appears in my hotmail as being an invitation from my old email address (which is my AppleID). The same thing happens whether the Calender invite is generated from iPad/iPhone or iCloud on the web. Also if I change my AppleID to ANOTHER (non @me.com) email address, the calendar invites come from this email address.

ie: Calendar invites always appear to come from the primary appleID email address, so by definition cannot come from an @me.com email (at least in my case!).

Hi

Mine doesnt seem to be doing that so a bit suprised thats all. Apologies but i cannot help you with that one.

Ash

No worries, thanks for your interest!

Not a problem and hopefully someone will be able to help you or apple will sort themselves out soon

Ash

I went through this madness today and feel compelled to post. My wife and I have had mac/me addresses for a while; my mother in law just got an iPhone so we went over to get everything set up today. She is new to smart phones (and is on a PC), so at first I decided we'd just skip push email and iCloud for now. Then I noticed that she is using Windows Live Mail, which is cloud based (her actual email service is not), so I figured heck, why not go ahead and set it up? I quickly discovered that only Outlook is supported even though the new platform is meant to replace Outlook. Fine, I will just set up a me email account for her. Perfect! Then the fun began. After talking to Apple for god knows how long the tech guy gave me the punchline that you have all heard - your me email address can not be used as the primary address (unless it was Mobile Me). WHAT?! Obviously the reason I created the me account for her was so that she could delete her old account!

Agonizing.

Hi

I have the same issue, 2 email address:

- Primary apple id: gmail.com

- secondary: me.com

I want set up my me.com as primary apple id instead my gmail acc (and if is possible delete this gmail address from my apple id coz, i just dont want it), so there is no news about it?

The only way is to create a completely new AppleID... Then you can transfer all your iCloud stuff over to that new email address... It isn't fun, but so far that is the only way I've been able to do it. It actually doesn't take too long to do and there is info online on how to do that...

Because you need to transfer the following from that iCloud to the new AppleID iCloud:

Calendar

Address Book

Notes

Reminders

Email

Bookmarks

Etc

But I can no longer access the old iCloud it keeps telling me my I'd or password is incorrect :(

I went through this idiocy at the Genius Bar yesterday and lost a awhile load of notes . I want them back and I can't login under my old I'd because it doesn't have a me.com suffix and logging in using the new doesn't have the notes.

This is Terrible

Back to the Genius Bar :(

I think it is ridiculous to not be able to merge IDs. Especially for those of us LOYAL APPLE customers who were "blessed" to be a part of the Mobile Me fiasco. I purchased numerous songs, movies, etc under the mobile me ID, and then I was told I would be forced to make a new Apple ID because Mobile me was being discontinued. However, I would not be able to merge the two? WTH??? Now, through no fault of my own, I have no way to merge these two IDs??? So now I have to manage two IDs, and with the current release of IOS 8, I cannot use the full functionality of the IOS because of having two IDs. Way to treat your loyal customers Apple. However, loyalty is not your game, it's about making $$$. Thx