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Change of primary email address from a third party to an apple account?

At present when I try to to this change it states I cannot do this change to a .me.com address although currently using a bt internet account.

Can you help?

Janet


MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 28, 2019 4:26 AM

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Posted on Dec 28, 2019 1:25 PM

Did you look at the article below? When you get a new email address from your new provider, you can change the existing address to the new address. You could also get a Yahoo or AOL email address to use as your Apple ID address.


Apple ID Name Change

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Dec 28, 2019 6:15 AM in response to janetfrombletchingley

Does the @iCloud or @mac address work?


Based on what I have read, I suggest you leave your Apple ID email address as a 3rd party email address because you have more flexibility if you need to change the email address because the Apple ID got compromised. I also have read of many people who were locked out of their accounts when they forgot their password. Since the recovery email address is the @iCloud email address, if you forget your password, you also can't access your email to get emails from Apple to recover your account. You can set a rescue email address, but for some people, this hasn't worked.


Note the restrictions in the article.


Apple ID Name Change


 What to do after you change your Apple ID or password - Apple Support     I suggest doing this before you change your Apple ID or password.

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