Why can't I use my iCloud email address as my Apple ID

Yup, I already cliked "I have this question too" in the opening post.

I discovered that Apple has a feedback page (apple.com/feedback).

Then I selected iCloud and explained the problem.

Maybe they will never answer me, but that's another way of telling them the issue we are having.

I'm in a similar position , I've just been told my current email supplier is cancelling their .co.uk accounts. So sensibly I though I'd use my apple email address for everything. Ironically itunes is the one place it appears I can't use it. Once it's gone will my receipts etv be sent to my secondary email?

I don't get this either. A lot of folks were saying it's due to the danger of losing your icloud.com login information and you won't be able to retrieve the information. But the same can be said about any other web service. That's why Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc have all those double, triple security measures like security questions, alternative email address and whathaveyou.

This is the only reason I never use my iCloud.com email. I don't want to have to tend to too many email address. Since I have to do that with my primary Apple Id, I'm not gonna bother with the icloud.com alternative address. Being on the Apple system everywhere else, I would love to be able to use icloud.com email all the time for reasons of aesthetics and uniformity.

Hello Guys!

The answer to that is no, you will not be able to use your iCloud email to update any of your existing Apple IDs. The reason for that, as I mentioned earlier, is that emails created in iCloud are already considered Apple IDs. For example if you have a non-working gmail appleID, you can go to appleid.apple.com to update it to a new email (as long as the one that you will used to update it is not own by Apple @icloud.com, @me.com and @mac.com).

To make it simple, the only time that you can use your iCloud Apple ID in the iTunes Store is if you're creating a new account.

As per Apple, it is also not possible to merge two apple ids together. For me this is more convenient because if your entire household is using one Apple ID that means sharing everything including private messages.

The only disadvantage of using multiple Apple Ids is when you also use them all in the iTunes Store. I believe this is something to do with anti-piracy. When you purchase something in the iTunes Store you will need to authorize the item using the iTunes Store account used to purchase it.

just to remove the confusion, an apple ID is NOT an iTunes Store account until you register it in the iTunes Store. And an iTunes Store account is already an Apple ID.

iTunes Store account is an Apple ID

iCLoud account is an Apple ID

Therefore, you cannot update an Apple ID with another Apple ID

Thank you.

Again, we are weighing in on this important thread...

We do not want our icloud master account tied to an offshore email account anymore. We want to use our icloud account as our MASTER EMAIL ACCOUNT.

Cudos to those in this thread who get that. Thank you for weighing in, too.

However, we are entertaining the idea that it might not matter if our icloud account is tied to an offshore account. What if my offshore account goes out of business? Will that KILL my master icloud account?

Great question, huh?

I'm sorry, but this is PRECISELY what we want to avoid: "Create a new email address, for example at Yahoo or Gmail, or anywhere convenient (or you can use an existing address as long as it has never been associated with an Apple ID)"

If the reponses are read thoroughly, this is exactly what we as Apple customers do not want. I, as with the others, do NOT want a bloomin' Yahoo or Gmail email address... That is the problem!

reitermoritz wrote:

For god's sake, Roger, would you please stop it? What you explain there has nothing to do with the problem.

I'm sorry if you found my post, explaining what you can do, unhelpful, but your problem is that you want to do something you can't do, and nothing posted here can change that. I've posted the feedback URL in my post above.

And, incidentally, Dave Black, to whom I was actually responding, asked what would happen if the service providing the address which forms his ID should go out of business, and I answered that.

Bless your heart Roger, your advice is great but not valid to the subject matter.

Subj Matter: We do not want our icloud accounts tied to an offshore email account. I'm using "offshore" as an acronym here. Some will get that, others will not.

Thanks Roger - I will give them feedback, because this is corporate manipulation of the consumer. I want NOTHING to do with gmail or yahoo but we are forced to create free email aliases with online webmail companies like that in order to have a valid Apple ID/iCloud setup if you just so happened to do it wrong during the initial setup of your Apple accounts. It does grate my gander when consumers are forced to do things like this by big corporates.

Dave Black wrote:

Bless your heart Roger, your advice is great but not valid to the subject matter.

Subj Matter: We do not want our icloud accounts tied to an offshore email account. I'm using "offshore" as an acronym here. Some will get that, others will not.

You did ask 'What if my offshore account goes out of business? Will that KILL my master icloud account?' and I offered you the procedure to follow should that event occur.

Roger, honestly I agree with others in the sense that you are suggesting the solution to another problem. That is not the problem we want to solve. Despite the undelying motivation, technically we want our MASTER icloud ID to be an @icloud.com address. Something that seems not possible so far.

But anyway thanks for the URL, I will write to apple about this issue. Honestly I do not care if this is a lot of work for them. When I buy those expensive devices I seriously pretend a superior service.

Ciao.

Dear guys,

I am glad to see there is so much passion about these discussions. Nevertheless, let's not loose the focus on the goal this thread is about.

Furthermore keeping on receiving mails about two cursing persons is somehow annoying.

Thanks for the collaboration

Point 1 seems odd. An e-mail address that get corrupted seems strange. Passwords nowadays are saved in icloud.

I see your point 2 but, why not to give people a recovery password in the same fashion of the PUK code of a SIM card.

Cristian