@gmail and @icloud help?

Okay so I don't know if it's like this for everyone but for example on my iPhone 5s, Settings > iCloud > Account, I have my email address [email protected] and the Mail is [email protected] ... I'm wondering why my gmail domain is listed as the Apple ID and the @icloud is just as Mail. Is there anyway to change this so @icloud is the primary one??

That's normal. Your Gmail address is your iCloud ID and your @icloud.com address is your iCloud email account. It cannot be used as your iCloud ID. In addition to being your iCloud email address, your @icloud.com address is also an alias for your iCloud ID. You can use it interchangeably with your Gmail ID to sign into icloud.com.

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Q.1 part 3: One possible reason to use Gmail for this is that Gmail storage quotas are higher than for many other free accounts.
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