Change my "Apple ID and Primary Email Address" to my @me.com address

Hi everyone!

I figured out how to at least change my PRIMARY EMAIL to my @me account, so that I don't get receipts and other communications at an old, unused non-Apple email address! Try this:

1) Use your browser to go to the Apple Store website. In the USA, it is: http://store.apple.com/us

2) Hover on ACCOUNT on the upper right, then scroll down and click on ACCOUNT HOME PAGE

3) Click on CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT SHIPPING OR BILLING INFO down on the left

4) Log in with your Apple ID and password

5) Click EDIT under PAYMENT INFORMATION

6) Enter your preferred email address where your old, defunct email address appears

7) Click SAVE

thanks denischu! This is one step closer. However i am still getting emails from apple to my old email address, including email messages from this thread!!

Do you still have the old email address listed as an alternative?

Try:

1) Go to https://appleid.apple.com

2) Click MANAGE YOUR ACCOUNT

3) Sign in

4) Click DELETE next to the bad address under ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESSES

Emails seem to be coming through now! Must have taken a couple of mins before it started to work! Thanks.

I too have finallymanaged to change my primary email address to my @me.com address (from my old btinternet.com isp address) by going through the process outlined by denisschu.

However I now get the same 'warning' as andymaltby suggesting I should make my apple id and my primary address the same - but only giving my old btinternet.com option for this!! I am hoping that if I just ignore this that at least I will have managed to get any apple emails etc coming to only my me.com address (my alternate address is also the same me.com address).

Do you think there will be any downsides to this? I also called Apple support (before I had followed this process) but they didnt seem to follow me at all but she did say she thoght Apple were working on the apple id system and that because of this she couldnt elevate my enquiry any further up the command chain right now!!

I just ignored their suggestion to make my ID and primary address the same (i.e. to undo what I was finally able to do). So far, it's working fine.

A call would be nice from Apple....for Apple has our phone #'s

I feel your pain...

I thought maybe, until Apple gets it together, forwarding my email from my gmail account to my me.com would work. I don't like using my gmail account as my ID and/or Primary, but at least most everyone has my me.com address now and I only need my iTunes receipts and Apple info forwarded from the gmail account. It's a pain for now but a partial immediate solution until the smart thing is done from APPLE....hello Apple! Are you listening?

You can stop iTunes & Apple emails from going to the old address by changing your primary email address to your @me account via the Apple Store website. Then your old address will be a username and nothing more.

Try this:

1) Use your browser to go to the Apple Store website. In the USA, it is: http://store.apple.com/us

2) Hover on ACCOUNT on the upper right, then scroll down and click on ACCOUNT HOME PAGE

3) Click on CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT SHIPPING OR BILLING INFO down on the left

4) Log in with your Apple ID and password

5) Click EDIT under PAYMENT INFORMATION

6) Enter your preferred email address where your old, defunct email address appears

7) Click SAVE

If you still receive emails at the old address after doing the above, remove it as an alternative address by doing this:

1) Go to https://appleid.apple.com

2) Click MANAGE YOUR ACCOUNT

3) Sign in

4) Click DELETE next to the bad address under ALTERNATE EMAIL ADDRESSES

Good luck!

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

Awesome! I've made the changes and everything went well. Let's hope it works.

But funny....Apples tech response notes:

Make your Apple ID and primary email address one and the same.

Your Apple ID will be easier to remember, and your account will be easier to access and manage.

Change your Apple ID and primary email address to: "bad address"

HA....Not!

nevermind

I did this, but when I tried to verify, the verification link wouldn't completely send through the text. It just showed the text 'More?' at the end of the message. I have AT&T. Got a fix for this?

Well, you can use a different mail as second or third mail too! But people who register now, also have the @me.com-Mail as Apple-ID and there's also no problem! So why isn't it possible to change it? :/