Since remarried, I really don't want to keep using my old email address and Apple ID with my ex's last name. Can anyone tell me the correct order to get this done? If the AppleID change will mess up anything on my iPad or iPhone, then I'd prefer to only have a new icloud email address. If I can have it ALL done, then direct me how! Thanks!
iPhone 5, iOS 8.1.1, Have iPad2 also
If your Apple ID (and hence iCloud login) is a non-Apple address then you can change it to another non-Apple address which has never been associated with an Apple ID. However if your ID is your @icloud.com (or @me.com) address then you cannot change it.
If you are able to change the ID it will not affect the account except that you will have to log out on all your devices and then log back in again, and if your have 'Find My iPhone/Mac/iPad' enabled on any of your devices you must turn if off before you start.
As to the actual email address, once you have created an iCloud account and chosen an @icloud.com address to go with it you can't change the address (short of creating an entirely new account).
However, all is not lost. You can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account or move it to another account.
More information on aliases here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a
Change your Apple ID - Apple Support
Thanks. I saw that I can do that, but am worried that once I change it, my phone set up/apps/etc will get messed up. And I want a new icloud email. I have a current one with my prior last name.
New Married name - want to change my icloud email and Apple ID
