How do I remove an alias from my Apple ID?

I have the same problem!!! can someone help?

I am having the same problem. I send messages in iMessage and my contacts are seeing ******@icloud.com for my name and not my phone number. I don't even use that email account and most people don't know who it is cause it does not have my name in the email. The only way for me to get rid of it seem to be disabling iMessage. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

aj1005 - I think you can change this.

In Messages, go to Preferences>Accounts

Select your iCloud account

On the right, you'll set the settings tab.

At the bottom of the page, you can select the ID that new messages are created from.

Hope this helps.

Personally, I would like to be able to get rid of the @mac and @icloud IDs altogether, but I can see why Apple keeps them around - I just recently had some old college friend look me up using the way old @mac ID.

Good luck!

I have the same problem

Oh I have exactly same problem...

I once had my sister-in-law borrow account to test Appstore (don't know why she failed first registration).

Unaware that she by accident create her name alias email *********@icloud.com & ********@me.com associated with MY icloud (I manage to replace back my h****g@gmail.com as main apple ID).

Now I cannot remove her @icloud & @me - listed as alias but don't have remove function, and my email sending from iPhone pops only @icloud.com/ @me.com as mailing address only.

This is toooo annoying & frustrated.

Some-one please HELP!!!

Big Thank you.

You cannot remove aliases that end in @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com. These aliases are internal to your account and cannot be removed. The only way to be rid of these aliases is to completely delete the Apple ID account. It may be annoying but this is how the coding works within these types of aliases. If there is not a delete or remove button next to the aliases, they cannot be removed from the account.

Have same issue. This seems to be a major problem with all Apple accounts. You would think they would have a solution by now. Especially with all the complaints about this particular issue. Currently talking with Apple support and they still can't find a solution to this problem. The solution is really very simple they just don't want to implement it or allow it. 😠

Apple Supports Senior Advisor confirmed it's IMPOSSIBLE to remove an alias.

I'm now stuck with this mess for the rest of my life - thanks Apple :-(

Solved!

1- Log into your MacBook pro (or iMac....)

2- Click on Apple logo on top left corner on the Screen

2- Go to System Preferences ( a new windows appear )

3- Click on iCloud icon then it will prompt you to log in to iCloud on that window

4- Once you logged in, click on Account Detail on the left hand pane

5- Then click on Contact tab on top of the page

6- Under "Reachable On" section, select the email that you not require and then click "-" to remove the email

7- Click Done

8- Close the windows

This will sync your Reachable-On (Alias) contact on all your devices once you logged into iCould on other devices, i.e iPhone, iPad....

Same problem. I have my wife's @me.com and @icloud.com aliases from when we shared an itunes account. We no longer share an itunes account and she would like her own @me/icloud.com and so would I. How do I remove/release them so that she can use them? And how do I create my own (if wanted/needed)?

Please help/fix!

Clicking "-" (minus) doesn't remove my wife's @me and @icloud account aliases. Please help.

Are you actually talking about aliases - additional addresses within an iCloud account - or are you talking about the main address created when the account was created (or transferred from MobileMe)? These latter cannot be deleted. You should be able to delete aliases, but you cannot move them to another account nor create a new account using them. Once an alias has been created on an account it remains tied to that account even after deletion. Note also that if you delete an alias you cannot restore it.

http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

WOW!

Going in circles again! Why is it so hard to get a straight answer on how to fix the problem.

HOW DO WE CHANGE THE EMAIL ADDRESS THAT IS REGISTERED AS THE ALIAS OF THE APPLE ID, when we log into apple id???

The one that is set as the IMAP email address? The one that everyone says they cant delete?

Is it me that just cannot understand why our English is not being understood here?

OK, one more time.

The reason you are not being understood is that you are not clear. Are you talking about the address which actually is your Apple ID? If you started with an @mac.com address because you had the old DotMac then you will now also have @me.com and @icloud.com addresses. If you started with MobileMe you will have an @me.com address plus the @icloud.com version. In all these cases the text before the '@' is the same. These are not aliases. They are all the same address and you cannot delete one of the versions. It's no good asking for a way to delete one or more of them because you can't.

Aliases are additional addresses with something different before the '@'. You can delete these.

Roger Wilmut1: so much text, no solution of ts.