Why can I not use my @me.com email address as my Apple ID? Why do I need another email address as the Apple ID which then becomes the primary email address when instead I would like to use the @me.com as my primary email address.
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Welcome to the Apple community.
You cannot change your primary email address to a .me address. You can however use either address to log in to any of apple services.
Thanks for your welcome and response.
I am disappointed however. So we are forced to have two email addresses. And what happens if the primary address is one that I do not want to use anymore, because now I have an @me.com address associated with iCloud. But I need to maintain the old one just to use as an Apple ID. Or can I log in when I am asked for my Apple ID anywhere with the @me.com email address?
Thanks
By the way I HAVE mananged to set my primary email address in my Apple ID as the @me.com address. I found a post in anothe forum that said to go to your store account settings and set the @me.com address there and it then become the primary address for you Apple ID. I have verified that and it works for me.
I have also confirmed that I can log in using my @me.com address when ever I am asked for my Apple ID.
This is may be the best that I can do for now.
but display apple id is still the old email address, it is not the @me.com. @me.com cannot use as Apple ID and primary email as one same email address. I dont understand why. and how to change it.
I think you have likely misunderstood what you have done. You cannot change your Apple ID to a .me address. You may have changed the address you use for payment information at the store. You can use either address to log into your account, so just because you can use the .me address to log in, doesn't mean you've changed it to your primary address.
Thanks for your comments Winston. My question, and I think that of many other people, is; Why when we create an iCoud account, at which point it creates a @me.com email address (which I like by the way), why can that not be the primary email address for us to use in all communication? Why can I not move all emails to the new @me.com address and get rid of the old email address which was required to create an Apple ID? I don't see the point of requiring two email addresses. For that matter why does the Apple ID even need to be an email address. If it was just a username I would be happy with that. Then once the @me.com email address is created that become the email address for all communications.
I hope that what I have said is clear and come across as I intended it and that it makes sense.
Thanks for your response.
Yes it is quite clear, it also makes a lot of sense, I have no idea why Apple have done things this way. I can only assume that there is a reason behind it, because as you say it doesn't seem logical otherwise.
It becomes even stranger, when you consider (if correct, because I've only seen it reported and not actually tried it myself) that when you first create your Apple ID you can create a .me address as your primary address, providing it's a new .me address and not one that's already in existence.
What's even more strange is that we just set up an iPod touch for my niece and it simply let me create the itunes and icloud account with the me.com address. I didn't have to create a seperate email address for her. It let me use a me.com email address at creation of the account.
So, is the only solution, to create a new account? That would be a pain, because all of your purchases are associated with a different account.
EjKnopper wrote:
I don't see the point of requiring two email addresses.
Consider: you have an @me.com address and no other address associated with it. So far so good. One day you forget your password. (People do, you know.) So you go to http://appleid.apple.com and click 'Reset password'. You sign in, and Apple give you a nice new password so that you can get into appleid.com and change it to another one, and can access your email; and they send the new password to the only address they have for you, your @me.com address... which you can't access to get the new password because you don't know it....
I have multiple apple ID's and would like to have just one. I can't sign in to facetime because of it. I'm not experienced with tech. Is there a simple answer for a new to technology person.
Apple ID and @me.com email address
