Q: How to change username assigned to Apple ID?

You can not change the user login name (your email address) associated with an Apple ID. If you no longer have access to the email account itself, you can set up a new 'recovery email' to receive any communications from Apple, ie: password resets, purchase notifications. Apple will not allow you to 'transfer' or 'merge' purchases from Apple ID to another.

That is not correct. Unless the Apple ID is an @me.com, @mac.com, or @icloud.com email address, you can edit it to a new email address at any time.

Cheers,

GB

Not sure what you are referring to? Your AppleID and your iTunes ID are one in the same. There is no "user name" associated with an Apple or iTunes ID, it is just an email address.

Unless you are saying you have a separate Apple ID and iTunes account ID?

Or, if you are saying that you would like to change your Apple/iTunes ID account name, then go to Manage your Apple ID, sign in with your password, go to your account information and Edit the Apple ID that is showing to a valid email address. Make that email address your primary email address also:

Apple - My Apple ID

Cheers,

GB

GB

OK, so you want to change your Support Community user name. It is not connected to your Apple ID (at least not in any way that we have access to). This is somthing that the Community Hosts would have to look into for you. They may or may not be able to accomodate you, but I will alert them to this post.

Cheers,

GB

The hosts typically only allow a name change if the username contains some personal information the user later decides they don't want revealed.

Very strange that you can't change a user name for just any reason.  What if someone just doesn't want to be the girl from maine anymore?  Happens.  They are stuck?  Come on, who stays with something forever.  I want to change mine too!  But not if it takes an act of god  (the forum god). 

Since this is a technical support corporate site and not a social networking chat room not being able to change the alias whenever you want to has not been an issue for most people here.

That is why when you create your User Name you are given a very clear warning to make sure you put the name you want to keep, since it cannot be changed....

Cheers,

GB

girl from maine,

My issue has nothing to do with the warning when you sign up.  The fact that you get a warning (if anyone reads it), has absolutely nothing to do with what I I am saying.

The whole problem is that in reality, right now, a user can't change the user name.  And my post was stating that people want this feature and why.

Not whether you read the warning or have "accepted your fate". 

Of course there is a warning.  This has nothing to do with my point and is more just you saying "They told you so" or something like that as if, just because I read all of the laws of the United States, I should be OK with all of them.  Far from it.  See how the two don't necessarily go together? 

Some of us don't agree with rules just because they exist somewhere.  Some of us like to try to change rules that don't make sense.  It doesn't help to point out the rule again, as if I'm going to accept it because you did that. 

There was no option to disagree with the warning, or to sign up with a non-permanent user name, so there was no other choice if I wanted to use apple communities.

The whole point I'm making is that, unlike you, many people create aliases that, in a month or a year or 5 years later, they don't like anymore, or it reminds them of something in their past or they just don't like it or have some new idea.  The idea that one is locked into a name associated with themselves forever, due to some lack of programming at Apple, is what my issue is.  Most other forums allow people to change IDs and therefore keep their history.  This is simple computer programming and budget and prioritization of features.

And I'm just voicing my opinion which is that they should make that option available because people like to be able to change their alias.

It doesn't help me to remind me of some message I (maybe read) and had no choice about as if my problem is that I haven't accepted the apple religion or rules as you have.

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I'm sorry, I didn't realize you spoke for the people. Must be a heavy burden.

It doesn't matter what other forums do and the option you had for the rule is to not join here. You use your Apple ID to participate here which is tied to other databases which makes changing the alias a bit more difficult. And since this is a reputation based system it becomes very confusing trying to remember who people are if they keep changing their alias.

I participate in some forums where usernames can be changed at whim, they are a moderator's nightmare. Plus puerile and some misogynist. Sort of like you. Perhaps you should stick to those sites.