I've posted another query about how to set phone when not always connected. I'm connected for a few times a week, with very slow servers. Problem is that Apple, and almost all apps now, are set on assumption that everyone is connected all the time. It is sometimes used to mean the address - Apple or non-Apple - which forms the ID - but I interpret it to mean the address at which people can write to you (the ID address is not visible to them).I was afraid of that. Changing the address which is the ID and login address has no effect on the address.Ĭonfusion can arise (and possibly has here) over the use of the term 'iCloud address'.
Once this address has been created it cannot be changed. The text before the doesn't have to be the same as the text before the in the ID address, though it could be - it can be anything which hasn't already been snaffled by someone else. When you enable Mail you are asked to create an address. Now you go to the iCloud prefs pane and sign in using that address. So what I say below is my understanding of the situation - I can't experiment with it.Īs I understand it, you start by creating an Apple ID using a non-Apple address as the id. I should start that saying that as I began with DotMac my address is also my ID, so I couldn't change it even if I wanted to. Possibly we are at cross purposes: let me elucidate. If you change what is in front of the for your Apple ID, it changes it for the iCloud account as well.
(Curiouser and curiouser - I originally included the email addresses in normal format, as you did yourself, but was told I had included 'content which is not permitted' I had to change each to 'at' to get it through - has Jive suddenly started banning email addresses, I wonder - or was it just the number of them?) (Umberto Eco would approve: the name of a thing is not the thing itself.) Changing the name of the ID (the gmail address) does not change the ID itself (or purchases would cease to be updatable etc.) and all data remains the same. After all someone else might have jim 'at' and that wouldn't prevent the change of the ID. You said that if someone has an ID of fred 'at' and an primary address of fred 'at', and they change the ID to jim 'at' and go through the necessary processes to log out and sign their devices back in, their primary address will change to jim 'at' and as far as I understand the case this does not happen.
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