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

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

This has irritated me in the past a lot also over the past few years since I bought my first iPhone, and I keep checking to see if the issue has been resolved. Having become very frustrated with iOS 7 and reading through these messages though, I've come to the conclusion that Apple have actually done me a favour. If I ever decide to 'leave' Apple, it will be a lot easier if Gmail remains my primary email address.

I want to keep my music and apps in my existing iTunes account, but my email address has changed. I want to only use my @icloud.com for EVERYTHING.

I can't use my @icloud.com email address to login to my existing iTunes account??? ***?!?

I can change my email account and use ANY other service providers email service, but not Apple's, to access my iTunes account??? C'mon people...tell me I'm missing something here.

Hi

I am going through the same problem.

I would like to suggest you to click "I have this question too" on the original post.
If a high number of users do that, maybe this will catch Apple's attention.

Moreover, you can go to www.apple.com/feedback and contact them.

I have done this even if I knew they would not ansnwer me back.

Why is it silly?

Almost all internet service providers require an alternative way for you to be contacted, just in case there is some technical issue with the primary account that prevents it from being accessible.

You don't have to actively use the email account with the other provider. It's there for emergency purposes.

Have you never heard the warning against "putting all your eggs in one basket"?

I'm simply trying to get out of Google gmail and move over to Apple icloud. I have been told by an Apple support tech that in order to do this I need to create a new Apple ID or use my existing one that is associated with my current icloud account, and in either case I would lose ALL of my itunes purchases and all information associated with the gmail based Apple ID (or in order to not lose that stuff I need to keep that account with a non-Apple email address). This is an utterly stupid policy and I'm now wondering if Apple will continue a new trend in crappy customer service, and this will certainly reflect on my future purchasing considerations and recommendations.

"An Apple ID is your user name for everything you do with Apple: Shop the iTunes Store, enable iCloud on all your devices, buy from the Apple Online Store, make a reservation at an Apple Retail Store, access the Apple Support website, and more."

That's fine using 2 email addresses, that's standard practice. I'm happy to use my Hotmail as the alternative but as the main email address I login with and use for Facetime etc. I want to use my icloud address which I've discovered you can't! Very strange

+1

I open a new ticket by the Apple Customer Support from time to time making always the same request, I want to change the name of my Apple ID with my iCloud e-mail address. By now none could help me and I'm still waiting as a lot of you.

Btw, has somebody tried to change his Apple ID with the iCloud one?

The result was that the input mask split the input field in Apple ID Name and Apple ID Primary E-mail address.

This is the keypoint. I want @icloud to be the primary ID/icloud account name. I do not care if I need to keep an account with a second e-mail provider running, as long as it stays as second e-mail address.

I want @icloud to be the primary ID/icloud account name. I do not care if I need to keep an account with a second e-mail provider running, as long as it stays as a second e-mail address that I check once in a while with the browser.