Is it possible to use personal domain with icloud services?

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Is it possible to use personal domain with icloud services?

Hi,

I own a small business, and I was wondering if I could somehow use my personal domain .com with icloud services. Today when I send meeting invites, and emails it goes as icloud.com

I tried to create a john@mydomain.com appleid and icloud, BUT there is a bug or security feature that invites and calendar shares will not go as mydomain.com , it will only go if I create john@icloud.com first and then an alias john@mydomain.com .... but then again the invites goes as icloud...

I looked at g-suite, office365, and other options, but NONE are as integrated and easy to be shared as icloud stuff.

So basically do what g-suite or office365 does, but with icloud.

Thanks for any ideas.

PS: I know people have asked this before, but it was a couple years ago, i wonder if technology has evolved and something changed 🙂

Posted on Jan 29, 2018 6:00 PM

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zinacef

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Jan 29, 2018 6:05 PM in response to BrzIphone

See -- Can I send email using my own domain address with iCloud the way I can with gmail?.

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BrzIphone Author

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Jan 30, 2018 7:34 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

To be honest, what I really wanted to do is just to share a calendar from mydomain.com

It was possible in the past. I have a employee which created an icloud calendar, and shared as employe11@msn.com

this is no longer possible. I created a testuser@mydomain.com (in my domain), created a new Apple ID with testuser@mydomain.com , try to share its calendar e reminder list, and the invite doesn't go through. I assumed they locked send From: on new accounts that are not icloud.com

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Jan 30, 2018 8:05 AM in response to BrzIphone

I've had no experience with this, but you could have a look at BusyCal - I use this in preference to iCloud, syncing between devices using Fruux. I don't know how invites would work.

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BrzIphone Author

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Jan 30, 2018 6:58 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Yeah that is sad in a way, it would be awesome to have an official business service from apple.

And you are right 100%, icloud.com , just like gmail etc looks cheap, and I do have a domain name and email with my company name, but I wanted to use the shared calendar and reminder of the icloud service as I think that is no other service that integrate to iOS as well as icloud.

We literally have 4 people managing a calendar, and it is nice to have them no to worry about invites etc, just go into "your calendar" if you see a empty spot just enter your name and meeting, for example.

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BrzIphone Author

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Jan 30, 2018 7:03 AM in response to zinacef

I tried that too. A couple a times even and didn't work.

Thanks !

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BrzIphone Author

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Jan 30, 2018 11:36 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Did a once over and those seem really cool. I will check them out

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BrzIphone Author

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Jan 29, 2018 6:45 PM in response to zinacef

yeah not sure if that can be setup. just tried another 10 things.

the map address. the icloud.com map settings, it keeps saying can't verify user and password

used the user as @icloud.com or just the user name... nothing works.

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Jan 30, 2018 5:00 AM in response to BrzIphone

iCloud does not allow you to send emails using anything other than your iCloud address(es) as the 'From' address: this has always been the case and I doubt there will ever be any intention to change it.

Quite apart from that it's not positioned as a business service, with no guaranteed uptime nor prompt telephone support. You certainly don't want to be using an iCloud email address - it makes you look cheap - and you would be better off getting am email account and personal domain from a provide who offers a business service.

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