How to add iCloud to existing (old) apple id?
It seems that at some point my Apple Id split into with and without @mac.com. All of my purchases that matter are on the one with out the @. I see by looking through notes that using 2 accounts should work but some things are a bit off e.g. the MyStations in podcast does not sync to appleTV because all my subscriptions are on the account without an @ and AppleTV will not log-into that account.
So is there any way to add an iCloud identity to the old account and then I can manually copy my data and abandon the matching account with the @?
Thank you, logging into the iCloud web site was the path to the answer.
I tried logging into iCloud with the non-email account and got the message that it needed to be changed to an email address. In mangage apple id tried to add my main personal email as the primary address but it is associated with a different account (not the @mac.com one? and there appears to be no way to find which apple Id this is). I associated a secondary personal email address and promoted it to primary in manage apple id, then changed the apple id to this address. I then used this to login to the iCloud website and got the message that it needed to be associated with a device first. Fortunately I had access to a test machine with out an apple id.
It appears to be working and apple tv is is syncing purchases and podcasts now. Photo stream of course needs new photos to stream but it looks like all will work, lots of software and devices to fix/set the new login name on.
Thanks again.
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If you did not sign out of your Apple ID on your iPhone before creating a new one, then you will need to sign back in with your previous Apple ID and then sign out. If you do not remember your password and do not have access to the email account, then you can reset your password by using the security questions.
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