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Changing apple id

My current apple id is a 3rd party email. I thought I set up an @icloud.com email to change it to. When I try to delete the 3rd party email address on my Iphone and change to the @icloud.com email address I get this message: "Could not update email. You can only add the @icloud.com address that is already on file in your account." I thought I was using the address that is already on file in my account. I don't see any other accounts in my file.I do see that it shows my @icloud.com as an alias. How do I change this?

Posted on Aug 30, 2018 6:09 PM

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Sep 6, 2018 9:10 AM in response to rustyfromchoudrant

I'm stuck with a similar issue. I have an Apple ID with a 3rd party gmail account. I also have an Apple ID with an iCloud address. I want to keep the iCloud address and move the 3rd party account over. Since they are both Apple IDs I can't associate the iCloud account with the 3rd party account. It seems there is no way to merge the accounts. I want to go all in on apple services but this is a pain. Not sure if I delete my iCloud account if I will be able to get the same email address and be able to add it to my 3rd party account to with it. Very confusing.

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