Changing icloud email adress in icloud profile

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Jasadon Author

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Changing icloud email adress in icloud profile

Hi, I know there is much on this subject on this forum but i can't find an answer to this specifically.

I want to keep my original iCloud profile
Originally I created an iCloud email adress and associated it with my iCloud account as an Alternative Email Adress
Then realised my full name was available as an email address in iCloud so I wanted that email instead
I tried to create the availble email address as a secondary address in my primary iCloud account but could't find a way.
Then I simpy created a new iCloud profile creating the preferred new email address e.g. joe.bloggs@icloud.com
The new iCloud profile is empty of course, as my real profile is another account
So I figure I can merge the iCLoud profiles - is there a way?
Or I could simply associate the new address as an Alternate Email Address with my primary iCloud account
And here's the problem with suggestion in point 8!

As you can see below the new email address, which I own, is seen as someone else's email address.

How can I associate this new email address joe.bloggs@icloud.com with my primary icloud account???

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Apr 15, 2014 7:09 AM

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Answer 1

Axeman1020

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Apr 15, 2014 7:15 AM in response to Jasadon

You cannot merge Apple IDs.

You can however create an iCloud email alias:

iCloud: Create or change email aliases

If you already created this email address on another account it will not be available.

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Answer 2

Apr 15, 2014 7:55 AM in response to Jasadon

I'm afraid you've boxed yourself into a corner by creating a new iCloud account with the address you wanted. That address is now permanently tied as the main address in the new account and there is nothing you can do to change it. You could have created an alias using that address in the older account, as suggested above, but now that option isn't available to you.

What you can do is to move over to using the new iCloud account, manually transferring your data to it. If you are also using the original address as the login for iTunes you will have to stick with that as purchases can't be moved from one account to another, but there's no problem about having different logins for iCloud and iTunes.

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