You Can Now Change Your Apple ID From a Third Party Email Address to an Apple Email Address

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Posted November 1, 2017 at 6:42am by iClarified

Apple has introduced the ability to change your Apple ID from a third party email address to an Apple email address.

The company provided details on how to do so in a support document updated today.

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Before you change your Apple ID email address, you need to sign out of every Apple service and device that uses your Apple ID. If you want to use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to change your Apple ID, stay signed in to your Apple ID on just that device.

When you change your Apple ID, you can enter another third-party email address or an @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com email address.

Use your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
● Go to Settings > [your name] > Name, Phone Numbers, Email.
● Next to Reachable At, tap Edit, then delete your current Apple ID.
● Tap Continue. Enter the Apple ID that you want to use.
● Tap Next.

Use your Apple ID account page
● Go to appleid.apple.com and sign in.
● In the Account section, click Edit.
● Under your Apple ID, click Change Apple ID.
● Enter the Apple ID that you want to use.
● Click Continue.

If you enter a new Apple ID that ends with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com, you see a message to confirm. When you change your Apple ID to an @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com account, you can't change it back to a third-party email account. Your former Apple ID that ends with a third-party email, becomes an additional email address for your Apple ID account.
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You Can Now Change Your Apple ID From a Third Party Email Address to an Apple Email Address

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Jb - November 2, 2017 at 12:34am

It works !!just change to iCloud and everything remains the same .. it’s just reassigning new id.

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ch7is - November 1, 2017 at 8:03pm

No you can@t what a complete waste of time.

John+Spencer - November 1, 2017 at 10:57am

Doesn't work, says can't use .me .icloud or .mac email addresses

Rich - November 1, 2017 at 9:38am

Just tried this and it didn’t work.

Ace1742 - November 1, 2017 at 9:05am

Ive been waiting for this for years!!!!! I'm very happy. The only thing left is, if you relocated to another country. you should be able to change your region- without loosing all your paid apps

Sabtain Aziz - November 1, 2017 at 10:28am

That would be difficult due to licensing etc.

Josias - November 1, 2017 at 1:58pm

Does this mean that all these AppleID that were signed into those "Activation Locked" devices would need to be removed as well? or you are still our of luck if you can't get in touch with whomever signed into those device originally ?