how to remove icloud alias from gmail apple id

Well, your iCloud account has an @icloud.com address, and as I say, if it's the 'primary address' - listed at the top of the list (if you also have aliases) in the Mail Preferences page at icloud.com - you can't remove it. iCloud provides email as part of its service, and this can only be an @icloud,com account (unless you have the legacy @me.com version as well). You don't have to use the email - you can turn it of in System Preferences (or Settings) on each device. You can the still use the other services. The iCloud Mail account cannot access your Gmail account.

You are using gmail services and created you web mail account ( gmail account to view your IMAP /POP account ) and kept the Apple ID exactly the same as gmail id .

I have read Roger Wilmut 1

posts and discussions what he wrote is correct .

Means you cannot completely remove iCloud id / apple ID from apple servers .

Read the article carefully .

Read the article : iCloud: Create or change email aliases

Gmail & I cloud services are totally different as you created gmail account & iCloud mail account , and also the port settings are different .

OK, as I understand it:

1. You have a Gmail account. You used this address to create an Apple ID, and from that an iCloud account.

2. You then created an @icloud.com address within that account as its main address.

This @icloud.com address is not an alias. People keep using this term and it causes confusion - an email alias is an additional address added to the iCloud account later.

You cannot delete the @icloud.com address you originally created, nor make it the Apple ID. Nor can you delete the iCloud account though you can of course just stop using it it that's what you want.

If I understand you correctly you want to stop using the Gmail address as your Apple ID, You can do this, but you have to change it to another email address which is not an @icloud.com address (such as a free Yahoo or Outlook address, for example). The following instructions assume you are using your iCloud account:

1. Firstly, sign out of iCloud on all your devices: go to each of your devices and sign out in System Preferences (or Settings)>iCloud - 'Sign out' on a Mac, 'Delete this account' on an iOS device (this will not delete the account from the server). If you have 'Find My iPhone' etc enabled you will need to disable it first. Your synced data will disappear from your devices but will reappear when you sign back in.
2. Create a new email address, for example at Yahoo or Gmail, or anywhere convenient (or you can use an existing address as long as it is not associated with an Apple ID).
3. Go to http://appleid.apple.com and click 'Manage your Apple ID'. Sign in with the current ID.
4. Where it says 'Apple ID and primary email address' and gives your current ID email address, click 'edit'.
5. Enter your new address and click 'Save changes'
6. Sign back into iCloud on all your devices with the new ID and password. Your synced data will reappear (give it time).

When you used your gmail Apple ID to open an iCloud account you were asked to create an @icloud.com address. This first address is not an alias - you can add 'email aliases' which are additional addresses, and these can be deleted: but the primary address - the one you first created - cannot be deleted.

As say, you can go to the iCloud prefs and turn it off. It will still exist but you won't see it. If you are actually getting messages to it you could set up a Rule on the iCloud website to move all incoming messages to the Trash.

lawrence from singapore wrote:

Thanks Csound1, my apple id is xxxx@gmail.com and the icloud alias is xxxx@icloud.com, the appleid.apple.com site stated the icloud is an alias of the gmail. I was told Apple cannot remove the icloud alias from the gmail appleid. I hope some solution is found as I was never aware of this alias for over a decade.

It is not an alias, it is a separate email account, and you can turn it off if you don't want it, it has no connection to your gmail address. I dont know what gave you the idea that it is an alias, but it is not,

If I understand what you say you have been told correctly, that is not in accordance with what we have always understood to be the situation - which is that once you have created an initial @icloud.com address upon opening an iCloud account you cannot change or remove it, even if you change the non-Apple address which forms the ID. Even if what you say is correct you are still stuck if you don't want to change your Apple ID.

However, if you wish to use iCloud's other facilities and retain the same ID you can uncheck 'Mail' in System Preferences/Settings>iCloud on each device (although this won't remove it from the iCloud website).

Alternatively you could sign out of iCloud and open a new iCloud account using a different email as the ID, but retain the GMail ID for iTunes, these forums, and the Apple Store. The two logins don't have to be the same, though most people find it convenient for them to be so.

Or if you don't want to use the other iCloud facilities you could simply sign out of iCloud and ignore it, retaining the ID for iTunes, the forums, and the Apple Store.