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Missing iCloud Confirmation Email

When I try to activate iCloud on iPad or iPhone or MacBook, I never get that email from apple for confirmation. What can I do about it? Same with Facetime!

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 6:51 AM

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Oct 13, 2011 12:56 PM in response to judiefromfortrose

I'm sure this is not a backlog problem.


See a post I put up a few minutes ago - in short my primary email will not send a verification, but I added an alternate and received the verification mail in 3 SECONDS. So there is something about your apple id and mine that is killing the sending of the verificaton email. That's what I think, anyway.


Regards,

Steve

Oct 14, 2011 11:23 PM in response to slashmobile

I don't think the problem is overloaded servers. I tried my standard email address for two days but it wouldn't work. Then I tried changing it (at appleid.apple.com) to another one and immediately I got the confirmation email. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem on the Apple servers somewhere since I cannot change my email back to my standard one - it simply will not save the email address. It's NOT that I don't get a confirmation email it's that Apples servers determines there's something wrong with my email and refuses to even save it. I can't exit the page without it asking something like "you've not saved your changes, would't you like to?" and of course I click "Yes" (or "Save" perhaps) but it won't save. It will continue to ask that until I just close the window instead.

No idea what's up with Apples servers of course - but it's not that they're overloaded since my backup email got the confirmation within 10 seconds. Too bad I'm not allowed to use my email address of 8 years. No reason why and I'm not given an error or anything.


Please. Fix. This. Thank you.

Missing iCloud Confirmation Email

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