HT5622 I want to change my Apple ID and rescue email address....I can't ! Help please

I wish to use my rescue address as my primary ID...I am no longer using my current email ID address. How do I change the rescue address?

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312 :
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.
You might need to log out and back into your account after removing it as your rescue email address before you can try using it as your primary email address.

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My mother recently set up her first iPhone. From what I can gather, during the setup process she was asked for a rescue email address. She only has one email address *************@btinternet.com. Later on when asked for an email for her Apple ID, she tried the same address but was told they cannot be the same. She then entered *************@btinternet.co.uk thinking this was just a login ID. The email address does not exist so some of you will know what's coming!
We have just synced the phone to iTunes for the first time to get email contacts onto her phone. I wanted to setup iCloud backups etc for her but the phone will only send verification emails to the @btinternet.co.uk address which doesn't exist! We cannot therefore do anything much with the phone. I am praying there is a simple solution to this. I created an outlook.com address for her and set this up as an Apple ID on the computer thinking I was replacing the @btinternet.co.uk one. Whilst the outlook ID logs her into iTunes, the phone still tries to send emails to the other address.
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Oh, bummer. You are going to have to go in and do the following to get the iCloud account in sync with the Apple ID:
1.     Sign back into Manage your Apple ID and change the Apple ID (temporarily) back to the .co.uk address
2.     Don't verify this email, just click on Done when you have changed it
3.     Have your Mum go into her phone to Settings>iCloud and have her scroll down to the bottom and click on Delete to delete the iCloud account under the invalid ID. She will want to type in the current password on her account. She can answer Yes to save her Contacts on the phone, if she wishes. Then complete the Delete process to get the iCloud account off of her phone.
4.     Go back into Manage your Apple ID and change the ID back to the valid email address
5.     Have her go back into her phone and under Settings>iCloud sign in with the valid new Apple ID
Once she has done that, then they will all be in sync.
I see what you mean about the Rescue email address. I looked on one of my old accounts, and could find no way to even get to it (not sure I have one on that account). But I would suggest that you contact iTunes Support and have them remove the Rescue email address if it is still there. It is possible that it was deleted when you changed the Apple ID to the same email, since they cannot both be the same.....
Here is the link to contact iTunes Support:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699?viewlocale=en_US
Let me know how it all works out! Best of luck, and if you have any other questions, just post back!
Cheers,
GB

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Welcome to the Support Communities!
The information below may be able to answer your questions about how to change your rescue email address:
Manage your Apple ID primary, rescue, alternate, and notification email addresses
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5620?viewlocale=en_US
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Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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Apple ID: What to do after you change your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5796?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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