ICloud email signup: "unable to connect to server"
Trying to sign up for the iCloud email account on iOS6. Whenever I get to set where I submitting my desired name to be added to the "@icloud.com" part, this popup appears saying this
"Cannot Create Apple ID
Unable to connect to server."
what's going on? are their systems down AGAIN?
I just went through this. After many support calls, it turns out my email address I was using to sign up had been used a long time ago for perhaps a MobileMe account. The phone didn't say the address was in use but when I went to sign up online for the AppleID at appleid.apple.com it said it was in use already. I did a password reset and then used that email and password to sign into iCloud on the phone and all worked perfectly.
So, I'd try signing up at appleid.apple.com, and see what happens.
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