is there a grace period for apple email address?

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is there a grace period for apple email address?

Hey guys I was wondering if there was a grace period for apple email address yourname@'insert apple domain name'.com once you deactivate or delete it before it can be used again?

for example with phone numbers for certain companies it takes 2yrs once the number is disconnected for it to be available to be used again.

Which leads into why i'm asking this, as the reason for this is I had an apple ID/email address that i used when working for an apple reseller a few years ago and when i left i was asked to delete it. which i did but i would like to use the yourname part of it again with @icloud.com but its saying the email address is already in use.

Now i know what you might say that someone else could be using in but thats is very unlikely as i have a very unique name plus i also know that apple in their infinite wisdom kept all address ending in @me.com and @apple.com active in the icloud change over to allow association between @me.com accounts and @icloud.com accounts and i believe the later is the cause of my fustration.

If there is no grace period is there anyway to prove that i was yourname@me.com and delete that record so that i can setup yourname@icoud.com as the apple ID in question are different?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Nov 7, 2013 8:15 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 7, 2013 8:30 AM in response to Craize

Apple ID's can't be deleted, if you used you@me.com previously the account still exists.

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Answer 2

Nov 7, 2013 1:13 PM in response to Winston Churchill

AppleID's can be deleted, but if they were - and the attached iCloud account was closed - there is no way to use this email address after the deletion. If you still know the password you used, you might try logging in at appleid.apple.com.

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Answer 3

Nov 7, 2013 1:36 PM in response to Community User

How does one go about deleting an Apple ID.

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Answer 4

Nov 7, 2013 1:55 PM in response to Winston Churchill

I think from his wording that Jerome meant to say they can't be deleted but lost the last two characters.

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Answer 5

Nov 7, 2013 2:01 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Yes, maybe.

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Answer 6

Nov 7, 2013 2:03 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Yes, I had rather noticed this, Winston. I went ahead and reset Safari and the more recent posts became visible. As to your questions: no, I made no mistake, an AppleID can be deleted. If you wish to delete your AppleID, please contact AppleCare Phone Support as per http://support.apple.com/kb/he57.

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Answer 7

Nov 7, 2013 2:07 PM in response to Community User

Have you in fact managed to achieve this? I ask because it's been received wisdom up to now that it can't be done, and if it can there are any number of people who have been asking about this in the past.

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Answer 8

Nov 7, 2013 2:10 PM in response to Winston Churchill

It would be the first I've heard of it, if this is correct.

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Answer 9

Nov 7, 2013 2:19 PM in response to Winston Churchill

I understand your healthy scepticism. There are no articles on the Apple website that provide any information on deleting an AppleID, so there is no way for me to substantiate my claim. However, my recommendation for contacting Apple Support (specifically, AppleCare) in these cases stands. Besides this, you might try contacting the privacy department with your inquiries on the deletion of an AppleID:

http://www.apple.com/privacy/contact/

To clarify, the issue in this thread will not be resolved by deleting the AppleID. Indeed, it does not seem that any issue beyond someone with privacy concerns will be resolved by deleting an AppleID.

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Answer 10

Nov 7, 2013 2:47 PM in response to Winston Churchill

If you are reading this message either in the online community or in an email notification you have received, please be aware it is a temporary post.

The support community is currently undergoing some minor problems which can occasionally result in newer posts being rendered invisible. One method of working around this issue and revealing the hidden posts is to add a further post of one’s own.

However because it’s not possible to see what one is replying to, it’s not possible to make a valid post in terms of the question(s) being asked, but once it has been posted and the invisible posts become visible again, one can then edit the post accordingly.

If you are seeing this in an email notification, unfortunately you won’t be notified of any subsequent edit and as such should return to the message in the online community to see any changes made to it.

On the other hand, if I have nothing worthwhile to say, it might remain as it is.

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