HT5621 How do you change your "Alternate Apple ID"?

How do I change my "Alternate Apple ID?

If you were a migratee from MobileMe then you would have an @me.com and an  @icloud.com address with the same text before the '@' - they are effectively the same address and you can't change either.
However you can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account or move it to another account.
More information on aliases here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

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  • How do you change your apple id on your iphone 5

    how do you change your apple id on your iphone 5. I also increased storage and cannot update to latest software upgrade! ANNOYING!!!!
    Yes, I logged in and out of the Ap Store and it is correct on that end. I have signed in on my PC too and connected cell. I am out of tactics to resolve! Please help!

    If your phone is signed into an old ID and you are trying to change it to an updated version of the old ID, do the following:
    Make sure you are signed into iMessage and FaceTime with your current ID.  If they are signed into the old ID, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive and Settings>FaceTime, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with your current ID.
    Then temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID.  Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change.  (You should not have to verify the old email account so it doesn’t matter if you no longer have access to it.)  Now go to Settings>iCloud, turn off Find My iDevice and enter your current password when prompted (even though it prompts you for the password for your old ID).  When finished goThen go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out (or Delete Account if you are not running iOS 8) and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud).  Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address back to the way it was.  Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign back in with your current iCloud ID and password (your data will download back to your device).

  • How do you change your apple id and password on your iPhone?

    How do you change your apple id and password on your iphone?

    To change your Apple ID go to Settings>Store>Apple ID, tap the ID shown, sign out, sign back in with the ID you want to use.  To change the password go to https://appleid.apple.com/, click on Manage you account to the right, sign in, click on Password and Security on the left, the Change Password on the right.  If you change your password you will need to sign out on your phone, then sign back in using the new password.

  • How do you change your security questions for your Apple ID ?

    How do you change your security questions under your Apple ID

    How to reset your Apple ID security questions.
    Go to appleid.apple.com, click on the blue button that says 'Manage Your Apple ID'.
    Log in with your Apple ID and password. (If you have forgotten your Apple ID password, go to iforgot.apple.com first to reset your password with a password recovery email)
    Go to the Password & Security section on the left side, and click on the link underneath the security questions that says 'Forgot your answers? Send reset security info email to [email]'.  This will generate an automated e-mail that will allow you to reset your security questions.
    If that doesn't work, or  there is no rescue email link available, then click on 'Temporary Support PIN' that is in the bottom left side, and generate a 4-digit PIN for the Apple Account Security Advisor you will be contacting later.
    Next, go to https://getsupport.apple.com
    (If you see a message that says 'There are no products registered to this Apple ID, simply click on 'See all products and services')
    Choose 'More Products & Services', then 'Apple ID'.
    A new page will open.
    Choose 'Other Apple ID Topics', then 'Forgotten Apple ID Security Questions'.
    Click the blue 'Continue' button.
    Select the contact option that suits your needs best.

  • How do you change your apple id on the ipod

    how do you change your apple id on the ipod

    Go to Settings>Store and sign out of existing account and sign into the one you wnat.

  • HT5616 how do you change your apple id on your phone. Trying to update aps and it wont let me because its still using old apple id.

    how do you change your apple id on your phone. Trying to update aps and it wont let me because its still using old apple id.

    Delete them and then download them from the desired Apple ID. This may require repurchasing paid applications.
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  • HT5312 I changed my apple ID, now I can't change my apple ID in my iCloud. How do you change your apple ID in iCloud?

    How do you change your AppleID in iCloud? help!!!

    WEll if the maximum amount of iCloud I'd have been reached he can't you delete them

  • How can you change your security question for I tunes?

    How can you change your security question for I tunes?

    If you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) set up on your account then the steps half-way down this page give you a reset link on your account : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
    If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your questions) then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
    Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
    When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps half-way down the HT5312 link above to add a rescue email address for potential future use

  • How do you change your security question to buy songs?

    how do you change your security question to buy songs?

    If you mean that you've forgotten them, then if you have a rescue email address (which is not the same thing as an alternate email address) set up on your account then the steps half-way down this page should let you reset them : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
    If you don't have a rescue email address (you won't be able to add one until you can answer 2 of your questions) then you will need to contact iTunes Support / Apple to get the questions reset.
    Contacting Apple about account security : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
    When they've been reset (and if you don't already have a rescue email address) you can then use the steps half-way down the HT5312 link above to add a rescue email address for potential future use

  • HT201342 how do you change your (mac/me/icloud) email address

    how do you change your (mac/me/icloud) email address

    You cannot change an iCloud email address unless you create a new iCloud account.  You can, however, create an email alias, which is an alternate email address that will receive incoming email in your existing iCloud email inbox.  To do this, see http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2622.  Just keep in mind that once you creat an alias, you can't later use this to create a new iCloud account or move it to another account, even if you delete the alias.

  • HT201342 how CAN I CHANGE MY "Alternate Apple ID"

    how CAN I CHANGE MY "Alternate Apple ID"?

    You are evidently both using the same iCloud account, so inevitably you share all the data. iCloud was never designed for mulpitple users. You can't separate [email protected] from [email protected] - they are effectively the same address.
    If you want to keep your email separate from your wife's you are going to have to open a completely separate iCloud account; however you won't be able to move your @icloud.com address to it, so it's a choice between changing your email address and putting up with the existing sharing.
    Changing your email address is a bit of a hassle as you have to email all your contacts and ask them to use the new one, but this happens quite a lot and most people are used to seeing this. You could also set up a Rule on your wife's iCloud account to forward anything addressed to [email protected] to your new address, so that you would still catch mail from people who hadn't updated and ask them to.
    (To set up a Rule go to http://icloud.com and on the Mail page click the cogwheel icon at bottom left: choose 'Rules'.)

  • How do I change my alternate apple id from the old email address I no longer use? I am not given an edit option. Thx

    How do I change my alternate apple id which is an old email address I no longer use? I am not given an edit option. This old email address has already been removed from alternate email options but does not want to leave the alternate ID position! Thx

    Your apps were purchased under the old ID, so they will have to be deleted and re-purchased/downloaded under your new one.

  • HT1918 How can you change your security questions?

    How can you change your security questions?

    1. See my User Tip for some help: Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities.
    2. Here are two different but direct methods:
        a. Send Apple an email request at: Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Contact Us.
        b. Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support
            and service.
    3. For other queries about Apple ID see Frequently asked questions about Apple ID.
    4. Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions

  • How do you change your security question and answer

    How do you change your security question and answer?

    See Kappy’s great User Tips.
    See my User Tip for some help: Some Solutions for Resetting Forgotten Security Questions: Apple Support Communities
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
    Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
    Send Apple an email request for help at: Apple - Support - iTunes Store - Contact Us http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html
    Call Apple Support in your country: Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
    About Apple ID security questions
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5665
     Cheers, Tom

  • How can you change your security questions and answers if it doesn't show the link forgot answer?

    how do you change your security questions/answers if it does not show the link forgot answers

    Hi, Morganr2954.  
    Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.  
    I understand that you want to reset your security questions.  Here is an article I would go though for this.  
    If you forgot the answers to your Apple ID security questions
    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201485
    Cheers, 
    Jason H.  

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