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My gmail account is a registered as apple id and the alias is an icloud. Please let me have a solution how to de-alias this icloud from my gmail apple id
iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 10.2.1, apple id issues
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.
Dear Csound1,
Your view I cannot change, the fact is that if you use a non icloud apple id to create an icloud email on an ios device, that icloud.com email is an alias of the non icloud apple id. I rest my case. Thanks
Dear tygb,
The issue as provide by support group from Asia Pacific Region at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia is that the icloud email I created in the ios ipad about a decade ago when I used my gmail as the apple id is an alias of the gmail and Apple support told me straight that an icloud alias is only removeable and send to extinct when the non icloud apple id is removed as apple id and once removed as apple id that non icloud email is forever barred as apple id. This issue has nothing to do with ports. If your quoted article say one can do so on an icloud alias, I suggest that you review that article with Apple support. Thanks
This discussion is going round in circles. Whether what Support apparently told you is correct or not, it doesn't alter the fact that you can't do what you want - whether or not you change the GMail address which forms your iCloud login, you can't remove the main @icloud.com address belonging to the account. (References to removing aliases refer not to that, but to the additional addresses you can create, which I assume you have not done.) As I said earlier, you could just turn iCloud mail off in the preferences and ignore it.
Dear Roger,
I am seeking solution to retain my gmail as apple id and get rid of the alias or monkey icloud attached to my gmail. Your view, cannot be done, I respect your views and assessments, the purpose of discussion is let more users look at the issue and offer suggestions. Thanks
Dear Csound1,
When I sign in to appleid site with my gmail, the icloud.com is reflected as alias. When I sign in icloud.com with my gmail that is also the icloud.com, same everything in the account detail. Key is the apple id is the gmail, if that icloud.com is not attached as an alias or monkey to my gmail, you can frame another term. Thanks
Dear Csound1,
The gmail I used as apple id gives me access to a host of apple applications and also access to icloud.com with all the apps attached to icloud.com. Key is that this gmail has a tag along icloud.com which I wish to de associate, and Apple current stand is that if I want to get rid of this icloud tag along, I have to remove my gmail as apple id. I want to retain my gmail as apple id minus that icloud tag along. Thanks
What exactly is the domain part of the address (everything after the @ sign)
Thanks Roger, my wish is to rermove, I want to retain my gmail account without the icloud alias apron string perpetually attached. Thanks and regards.
the issue is to seek solution over this alias issue as I do not want to disbar my gmail form the apple id I just want the apron string cut off from my gmail as an apple id, thanks
Both Apple and I have told you that you cannot remove the @icloud.com address you created when you first opened the iCloud account, whether or not you call it an 'alias' (or a 'monkey').
I think that you entirely misunderstood them.
Dear Csound1, am not clear what you have stated in your message, any clue where and how did I misunderstood them (who are the them). Thanks
Them would be whoever told you that nonsense.
I will do no such thing, I know how iCloud ID's work.
Dear Lawrence, please feel free to believe whatever you want to.
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