Changing Icloud email address

Hi Eric or anyone,

I have an Apple ID which I sign into iCloud which is working fine. We recently setup Family Sharing and my 12 year old used his email address to signup for an iCloud email account. How can I delete his new iCloud email account form my iCloud account?

Thanks so much.

Roestuff

Hi GB and Eric,

I see where my question is not clear. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that we were setting up Family Sharing at the time that I noticed my issue. Let's leave Family Sharing out of the equation for now.

When I log in my iCloud account, the mail icon now appears. It never appeared before because I had never set up an iCloud email address. I investigated it and went into the mail settings. I noticed it had an iCloud email account setup with my son's name in as the prefix before the "icloud.com". I suspect he went in under my Apple ID and for some reason set it up.

My question is: how do I remove this email account on iCloud email? I don't need an alias because I will not be using the iCloud email system but I also don't want this hanging out there.

Thanks again.

Roestuff

Thanks Eric. There isn't an alias. Just the "greyed out" iCloud email address. No way to delete it using the gear - frustrating! I am beginning to think I am stuck with it on my account. I appreciate you and GB trying to help but sometimes you just have to move on to other priorities. Have a nice evening.

If you have a Mac, open the Mail app, then click on Mail>Preferences>Accounts, and you should be able to disable the email account you don't want. If you are doing it via an iDevice, it would be under Settings>Mail>Accounts, then scroll to the bottom and Sign Out.

You can also turn off Mail in Settings>iCloud, or on a Mac, System Preferences>iCloud. Just turn the Mail switch off.

Cheers,

GB

Hi, I recently changed by apple id and password and need to change my icloud email address and password because I nolonger use the old email address and password! can you help me reset this information

You are going to have to be a little more clear about what you are asking about. What do you mean by your "icloud email address and password"? Are you saying you have two Apple IDs? One that has iCloud and one that doesn't? iCloud is a function of an Apple ID. So, if you change the Apple ID that the iCloud account is a derivative of, the iCloud address is updated.

Can you be clearer on what it is you are asking about?

Cheers,

GB

Why is it so difficult to understand what they are asking? It shouldn’t be. As of yet no one has been able to answer the question on this page.

What are you talking about. I answered Roestuff's question, even though it was complicated by oversharing (i.e., including a story about Family Sharing).

And, there is more than one question on this thread. There are several, actually.

It should be patently clear by the questions I am asking each poster, that the situations they are describing are unique, and are missing information.

Do you have a universal answer that will work for all versions of Apple/iCloud/ ID combinations? Multiple IDs? Once Apple ID, one iCloud ID? One Apple/iCloud ID, one iTunes ID? Apple ID changed before being signed out of iCloud, so issues getting previous version of Apple ID signed out?

Please share your insight with us.

And if you have a question, then write out specifically what your issue is. If you don't provide every piece of information that we are going to need to troubleshoot your particular flavor of problem, then you will also be asked questions.

The biggest issues we have with Apple/iCloud/iTunes IDs is that people have no clue how they work, where they are located, how they interact, what the difference between an Apple-domain email address is and any other email address. It's not a straightforward one answer fits all circumstances kind of thing.

So, please, just ask whatever your question is, and we will try to help.

GB

Did he use an alias of your Apple ID?

Create an Apple ID for him.

Apple ID – Create

Here can do that at the link below.

Apple ID - Manage

Apple ID Name Change

Apple ID email address or password - What to do after you change

Sorry, but not clear on what you are asking? If he set up a new iCloud account, how it is associated with your account in any way?

GB

If I understand the problem, try going to iCloud.com/Mail, then click the gear in the lower left, and select Preferences. Then Accounts and delete the alias there.

Change Icloud email

I too am trying to change my icloud email address. This so frustrating. Even at the store they did not help me.

Does your iCloud email address end in @me, @mac, or @iCloud.com?

If so, then you cannot change it.

If not, then what is preventing you from changing it?

GB

Why is it so difficult to understand what they are asking? It shouldn’t be. As of yet no one has been able to answer the question on this page.