HT5312 How to I set up a rescue email on an already existing Apple ID?

How do I set up a rescue email on an already existing Apple ID

Hey lehrke5555,
Thanks for the question, you are on the right track. The article you referenced provides steps for editing a rescue email address - you can follow the same steps to add a rescue email address.
1. Navigate to My Apple ID using your web browser.
2. Click "Manage your account"
3. When prompted, sign in using your Apple ID and password.
4. Click Password & Security
5. You'll be asked to answer 2 of your 3 security questions before you can make any modifications. If you are unable to remember your answers, you can choose to send an email to your rescue email to reset your security questions.
Note: The option to send an email to reset your security questions and answers will not be available if a rescue email address is not provided. You will need to contact iTunes Store support in order to do so.
6. After you've validated your identity by correctly answering your security questions, click Edit to the right of your rescue email address.
Please note that you will need to know the answers to your security questions to setup a rescue email address. If you do not know the answers to your security questions, follow the instructions to contact iTunes Store Support.
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
Thanks,
Matt M.

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HT5312 how do i set up a rescue email with my already exsisting apple account

Is there a way to reset security questions without having to have a rescue account if i can please send a links so i can do so

If you've forgotten more than one of the answers, you can't do this on your own and must contact Apple. Otherwise, the article you asked this question from provides the instructions to do so; it also provides a link to the iTunes Store staff should it be necessary.
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HT5312 how do i set up a rescue email address on an existing account?

I forgot my security questions, but i don't have a rescue email address. How can i set one up???? HEEELLLPPPPPPP!!!

You won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your 3 security questions, so you will need to get them reset first - see if the instructions on this user tip helps : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
When you've got them reset you can then add a rescue email address as described on the page that you posted from for potential future use :
Navigate to appleid.apple.com using your web browser.
Click "Manage your account"
When prompted, sign in using your Apple ID and password.
Click Password & Security
You'll be asked to answer 2 of your 3 security questions before you can make any modifications. If you are unable to remember your answers, you can choose to send an email to your rescue email to reset your security questions.
After you've validated your identity by correctly answering your security questions, click Edit to the right of your rescue email address.
Once you've finished editing your rescue email address, click the Save button directly below the email field.

HT5312 How do you set up a rescue email?

I just got a new IPhone, but before I can make purchases on it I ha r to answer my security questions, which I forgot the answers to. To reset the questions I have to get an email sent to my rescue email. But I don't have a rescue email. I already have an alternate email, but I guess it's not the same thing. So how do I set up a rescue email?

Did anyone ever answer you or did you figure this out? It's very frustrating and misleading. From what I can tell everyone is saying they're different. Also, they tell you that you set up your rescue e-mail when you create iTunes account. However, I have an old account and never set up a recue account. When I go through account on iTunes there is no prompt to add a rescue account. When I go through the manage my account via apples website page it will allow me to add an alternate e-mail which then send an email verification to the alternate asking you to verify the new account and it states that this is your primary account now for any correspondence. I know my security questions but I can't for the life of me find someone that has distinctly answered the question letting you know how to add a rescue e-mail account to an existing iTunes account.
Sorry for the long e-mail and the redundancy of the question but I've literally wasted half my day trying to get this stupid question answered and someone who will pay attention to my actual issue. Which is I need a recue account and not an alternative account. I'm actually pretty tech savvy so make fun all you want but this is very frustrating and there seems to be no one or any forum where someone actually answers the people that have bravely asked the question over and over and gotten told to go to manage my account and add an alternative account and that is not a rescue account. Please help! I'm about ready to smash my MBP over my desk!

HT5312 How do I set up the rescue email if I don't have one and can't remember security questions?

How do I set up a rescue email...if I don't think I have one? I don't remember my security questions and I need them.

You cannot and need to contact Apple to get the questions reset. Click here, phone them, and ask for the Account Security team, or fill out and submit this form.
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HT5312 how do i set up a rescue email?

i don't think i set up a rescue emails so how would i go about doing it?

Go back to the article you asked this question from and follow the instructions to do so. If you've forgotten the answers to the security questions, use the link in the Additional Information section to contact Apple instead.
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HT5312 How do I set up a rescue email? Need help

How do i set up a rescue email

HI,
If You have Access for your Apple id Then Log in to www.appleid.apple.com
Navigate to My Apple ID using your web browser.
Click "Manage your account"
When prompted, sign in using your Apple ID and password.
Click Password & Security
You'll be asked to answer 2 of your 3 security questions before you can make any modifications. If you are unable to remember your answers, you can choose to send an email to your rescue email to reset your security questions.If you Dont know the answer for the security Questions then call to apple Support and tell them that you want to Talk to Accounts and Security team to reset the Answers.

HT5312 How do I set up a rescue email account

I don't appear to have set up a rescue email account does anyone know how I go about doing so ?

You won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your 3 security questions, so you will need to get them reset first - see if the instructions on this user tip helps : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
When you've got them reset you can then add a rescue email address as described on the page that you posted from for potential future use :
Navigate to appleid.apple.com using your web browser.
Click "Manage your account"
When prompted, sign in using your Apple ID and password.
Click Password & Security
You'll be asked to answer 2 of your 3 security questions before you can make any modifications. If you are unable to remember your answers, you can choose to send an email to your rescue email to reset your security questions.
After you've validated your identity by correctly answering your security questions, click Edit to the right of your rescue email address.
Once you've finished editing your rescue email address, click the Save button directly below the email field.

HT5312 how do i set up a rescue email for my security questions?

i have recently forgot the answers to my security questions and there is the option to reset them with a rescue email, which i dont think i have. does anybody know how to set one up?

You need to ask Apple to reset your security questions; ways of doing so include going to support.apple.com/kb/HT5699 and picking a method for your country, and filling out and submitting www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.
Setting up a rescue email requires correctly answering two of the questions.
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HT5312 How do I set up a rescue email address

I tried to purchase songs on my iPhone 4S, and iTunes won't let me buy anything until I answer 2 security questions. I forgot the answers to those questions a while ago. I figured out from the apple website that I need a rescue email to send the answers to me, but I don't know how to set that up. Please help?

You cannot and need to contact Apple to get the questions reset. Click here, phone them, and ask for the Account Security team, or fill out and submit this form.
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HT5312 how can i set up a rescue email?

i forgot my security questions and i didnt set up a rescue email

From the page that you posted from :
Note: The option to send an email to reset your security questions and answers will not be available if a rescue email address is not provided. You will need to contact iTunes Store support in order to do so.
Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
When they've been reset you can then use the steps half-way down the HT5312 page that you posted from to add a rescue email address for potential future use : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312

HT5312 how do I set up a rescue email address so I can change my security questions

I can't buy anything on my new iPhone without answering my serurity questions I made in 2nd grade. I can't remember them at all and I don't have a rescue email set up.

If you don't have a rescue email address then see if the instructions on this user tip helps : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
When they've been reset you can then add a rescue email address for potential future use

How do you set up a rescue email after you already created an apple id?

I forgot my security questions and i didnt create a rescue email, is there any way i could do it now?

Too late.
To get assistance with the forgotten answers...
Try this Discussion...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4305745

HT5312 It says i will have an option to send an email to my "rescue email" because i forgot the answers to my sequrity question...How do i set up this "rescue email"

How do i set up a rescue email address??

You can't after forgetting the answers and need to contact Apple. Use the link to contact the iTunes Store staff in the 'Additional Information' section of that article.
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HT5312 I dont freakin understand. I cant buy anything because I forgot the answers to my securlty questions,and I cant set up a rescue email account because I exhausted my attempts. So how do I set up a rescue email? How rediculous

I dont freakin understand. I cant buy anything because I forgot the answers to my securlty questions,and I cant set up a rescue email account because I exhausted my attempts. So how do I set up a rescue email? How rediculous

Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities

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