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

I would just like to add a 1+ to this thread. I don't know why Apple will not permit me to use my @icloud.com email as my Apple ID, and instead forces me to continue to use my 12-year-old Yahoo Mail account.

The worst thing is that if you create a new iCloud account right now, that account can function as your Apple ID, but if you were an early adopter, or even if you created an iCloud account as recent as a few months ago, you're now forever stuck with a Yahoo or Gmail or Hotmail email address as your Apple ID.

Ya, but you can pretty much ignore that 3rd party email address and never use it. You would only ever need it to reset your password, so it makes perfect sense to have. You can use your icloud email address to sign into all apple services.

The 3rd party email cannot be ignored. It shows up at various places every time I open the "settings" in my iOS device. It shows up as my caller ID on iMessages from time to time, even though I repeatedly try and turn it off. It shows up in my iTunes accout. It shows up on my sales receipts. It shows up everywhere. The 3rd part email address is like a cockroach that just will not die. I don't understand why Apple with it's "walled garden" is so insistent that we retain our Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail accounts.

You can actually use an alternate email address to sign in. This is an option when managing your appleid. So my primary address is a hotmail account (which I never use) and my alternate id is a @me.com address which I can use for everything. Isn't this a solution?

I just want to set my Apple ID as a primary address and delete (or hide) the other one.
Is it impossible to achieve? I am stuck with an old email account that still to pop-up evrey now and then and no, ignore it is not a solution, is an act of surrending.

It's only half the solution.... The problem is when you buy anything with your appleID (iTunes, Apple.com, etc.) the reciept and shipping info is sent to that 3rd party email address that I never even check anymore. Why they can't (or don't want to) do the code work to allow this change is rediculous. If someone that sets up an AppleID for the first time does not have to use a 3rd party email address (except for optional recovery purposes) and I cannot (even though I have had my ID since 2007) and have been a loyal paying customer is just plain stupid!

Only 1) may not be an email address at a domain owned by Apple (for which obscure reason ever; no one seems to know).

If you go and create an iCloud right now, you can use an xxxxx@icloud.com account for everything. The restrictions are only on early adopters.

In my Apple ID account 1 and 2 are treated as the same, in which Apple ID and Primary Email Address must be an e-mail address in an external domain. They made a mess. Apple, fix your faults!

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This is such an annoying issue and yet Apple simply fail to comprehend it. Completely. I have had fights by email with the idiots on their help desks and am flabergasted at their total lack of willingness to let users control their own accounts. I get the feeling their is something behind this lack of comprehension though...

I can guarantee apple understands the issue. They aren't stupid. I imagine there is much that would need to be changed to the infrastructure to accommodate what older account holders want.

In between kicking and screaming over needing to simply have a secondary email address you don't have to use, you may want to provide feedback at apple.com/feedback. Ranting here on a user to user forum resolves nothing.

Guys, I don't know how but I've done it!!

I complained because I was forced to use a dormant google mail account and all I did was log into iCloud and changed my email address to my iCloud.com address and it's allowed me to do it.

I advise you give it a go!

Good luck

Matt

Any updates to this problem? I notice that when you set up a new iCloud account on Mavericks, your iCloud account becomes your Apple ID and primary email address. No need for a Yahoo or Google email anymore. So is Apple ready to let us early adopters make our iCloud account or Apple ID?

My children bought us an iMac and an iPad. We had a Dell with AT&T DSL and Yahoo home. I tried to sign up for their new All-Access program which uses one password. Then they said we still needed a password for the individjual members of the All-Access family. Prety soon I forgot my passowrd for Yahoo. I ended up in a chat situation trying to remember or create a password that would get me back on Yahoo. Instead the Chat agent set me up with a temporary password thast I could use until I created a new one. At the same time my old Yahoo finance lportfolio and email contacts were deleted and I was knocked off my network. I have spent several hours on support systems and chat sessions, but get nothing but a runaround. I am trying to change my Apple ID to one that doesn't contain SBC Global.net. I wanted to simply change the SBC Global to iCloud, since I had changed my email to iCloud -- fightirish@icloud.com. So I need some other words to complete an acceptable ID. I don't want to go back to SBC, even though I own nearly 700 chares of AT&T stock. My wife worked for old Ohio Bell many years ago. We have AT&T DSL, landline and mobile lphones. I'm 79; could I drop Geezer in there in place of SBC Global? Sorry to be so windy, but I'm really frustrated. My wife is very happy with her iPad. We juast enjoyed watching our grandson's lacrosse game that was streamed in from MÅ. We hope to watch the rest of the games on a TV with a Chromecast.

Jim Weber

Massillon OH