Using alternate MobileMe address

When I created my .mac address a few years ago I used a name that is not as professional as I like now, when sending mail through my Mail App on my desktop and laptop I use an alternate mac e-mail address, is there any way I can change my iphone mail to be sent by this alias address as well, it is still linked to my MobileMe account just a different alias.
Thanks

If you did not migrate your MobileMe account to iCloud (at http://me.com/move) before 1 August your account has been closed and the contents deleted.
You can reactivate your @me.com address to use in iCloud - do not create a new iCloud accounts as you won't be able to add this address to it. Just sign in with your @me.com address in System Preferences>iCloud (Lion 10.7.2 minimum required) or Settings>iCloud on an iOS5 device.
You will be able to use the address but you will not be able to recover any emails previously stored on it, nor any files which were stored on your iDisk.
If you had an @mac.com version of the address (as a result of DotMac membership prior to MobileMe) you will not be able to reactivate that.
However, if you did migrate but have simply not signed it in to iCloud the same procedure applies; in this case the contents and any email aliases, will be transferred to the iCloud account. However any files which were in your iDisk are not recoverable.

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*Alternate email address
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Change iTunes account to MobileMe address

I've had an iTunes account before I had a mobileMe account. Now I want to change the email address to my "me.com" address. However that doesn't works since @me.com addresses are automatic appleid accounts.
Does anyone have a good suggestion how I could deal with this. I want to use the me.com address for all future purchases but I still want to be able to play my old music and use my old apps.

Hi, I'm in the same position and have spoken to the support people about it, largely because I'm trying to decommission my old e-mail address completely. It can't be done, unfortunately - so I still have my original iTunes account (with the e-mail address now changed to a Hotmail one) plus the new one using the MobileMe address. V irritating!
You can however still play the old music and use the old apps provided your machine is authorised for both the old and new accounts. Just make sure the old account uses an e-mail address you'll continue to have access to!
Hope this helps.

I'm exhausted of trying to find a solution to a problem created by Apple. I have moved to iCloud, following your instructions and now I can not use my mobileme e-mail address. How can I contact directly with Apple, not just an automatic reply phone number

I'm exhausted of trying to find a solution to a problem created by Apple. I have moved to icloud following all your instructions and now I can not use my mobile me e-mail address. I can not activate icloud because when I put my e-mail address it answers that somebody is already using my address. I have my old e-mails, but I can not receive any e-mail or send them.
I have contacted Apple Technical Support in Spain and I was sent an e-mail saying that I have to call a phone number and when I call it is always an answering machine who answers that says that I have to pay 50€ for a consultation or wait for 10 minutes. When I have made the consultation it was never mentioned that I have to pay 50€ for a phone consultation. If I don't want to wait I have to pay for the Apple Tecnical Support which cost 250 €, this was not mentioned in the technical support page.
Can somebody let me know how can I contact Apple in another way in order to talk with a human being or chat directly? I was very happy just using my mobileme e-mails, I didn't need any clouds and I was force by Apple to registered if I want to continue using my mobileme e-mail address.

Sandra,
See this Apple support document for information on reporting an issue with your iTunes purchase.
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I am dumping my Android and getting an IPhone to go along with my IPad, primarily because of the ICloud and the ease of synching all my mail, contacts etc. My original Apple ID was my gmail address. I now have the @me.com address when I put IOS 5 on my iPad. I want to dump gmail and just have one email address...the @me.com address. When I set up iCloud, I used the @me.com address. When I try to change my Apple ID to the @me.com address from the gmail address, I get this message "You cannot create an Apple ID using a MobileMe account. If this is your email address, it is also your Apple ID". Any ideas?

I also have the same problem. Is there a solution?

Free Up Old MobileMe Address, For Use As iCloud Alias?

Back when Apple were offering free trials of MobileMe, I signed up for the service and created an @me.com address.
Now that I'm using iCloud, I would to use that @me.com address as one of my aliases in Mail. However, the iCloud website says that the alias is already taken. Yes, it's taken because I took it years ago, for use with MobileMe!
So my question is, how do I free up that old @me.com to make it available as one of my aliases?

Ok, well I followed your instructions.
I tried to re-active my expired MobileMe ID as an iCloud account, by signing up to iCloud with my old expired MobileMe account and password. Here's what Apple's iCloud site had to say about that:
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I have an alternative email address setup such as [email protected] configured to use with my online Gmail account. In the online account, I use the alternate email services smtp server so emails are sent correctly from that alias.
Is there a way to setup the native mail app to use Gmail for mail, contacts, and calendar and use an alternate email address as the sender? Right now I am syncing contacts and the calendar through the native mail app and using the Gmail mail app for my email. It allows you to select from all of the emails setup on the Gmail account.
But for simplicity sake, I would like to consolidate to the native email app for all of my accounts - I also have an Exchange based work account.
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I have forgotten my alternate email address and security questions, and i can't make any purchase of games from the app store, but i have already use my itune gift card, how?

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Somehow my alternate email address was changed and when I try to edit it says that email is being used by another account?

Will not let me change my alternate email address...says it's being used by another account. Don,t know what I have done.

It probably really is being used by another account. That account holder may be you, or it may have been an Apple ID used at one time in the past, which again may have been you. Doesn't matter which. Once it's used, it can no longer be used by anyone, ever again.
By "already in use" it means that email address might be an Apple ID, or an "alternate email address" associated with any Apple ID that has not been deleted from that Apple ID, or a "rescue email address" for an Apple ID that also has not yet been deleted. Therefore if you have another Apple ID go to https://appleid.apple.com/ and using the "Manage your Apple ID" button, check your account for alternate email addresses. If that email address is present, deleting it will make it available to use for an Apple ID.
Rack your brain for any other Apple IDs you may have used in the past.

How do i change my primary Apple ID to my alternate email address?my primary email is no longer in use.

How do i change my primary Apple ID to my alternate email address?my primary email is no longer in use.

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How can I re-use the mail address I signed when I was testing MobileMe?

A few months ago, I tested mobile me and sigend on a me.com email address. I didn't take the anual subscription so the testaccount was closed fur using but is still existing. Now, I'd like to use the mail address for the cloud services, but I says, -already taken. When I try to log in with the old address it says: account expired.
What can I do to re-use the old address?
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Oliver

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Failure to use mobileme address for icloud

When I installed ios5 on my iphone and ipad I used my itunes address for icloud setup, rather than my mobile me address. This seemed to make sense at the time, since all my purchases were tied to the itunes address.
Now I read that I should have used the mobile me address and that I can't change it for 90 days.
Since this was poorly documented and an obvious thing to do (my wife would have done it the same way) is there any way to short-circuit the 90 days?

If your phone is signed into an old iCloud ID and you are trying to change it to a newer version of the ID, do the following:
If you are using iMessage and FaceTime, make sure you are signed into these services 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 iPhone and enter your current password when prompted (even though it prompts you for the password for your old ID). Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out (or Delete Account if you are not running iOS 8) and choose Delete from My iPhone 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).

"Apple ID cannot be used for MobileMe" when setting up Find My iPhone app

Okay, folks, spent some time with MobileMe support via chat this morning. This is what I've learned. Apparently you CANNOT use an Apple ID, regardless of what format it's in (usually a full email address) AS LONG AS IT'S ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE ME (ME.COM ADDRESS) ACCOUNT THAT IS CLOSED OR NO LONGER ACTIVE. Unfortunately, there is no way to disassociate the two and there is no way the old MobileMe (me.com address) account can be deleted.
Apparently, I had some issue when I was trying out the MobileMe for the trial period many months ago and for some reason couldn't use my primary Apple ID (my primary email address), so I created a me.com address for the MobileMe account. Eventually, I cancelled the MobileMe account because the cost wasn't justified for the features it offered. Unfortunately, that association with my primary Apple ID is permanent and THAT is the source of the "This Apple ID canot be used for MobileMe" error. Or at least that's ONE reason for it.
The solution? Create a completely new, separate Apple ID using a valid email address from which you can receive a verification email. The address is NOT used to receive any further emails from Apple. Only to create logon credentials. Do NOT associate this email address with your current/primary Apple ID or any other Apple ID. This is what you use to set up Find My iPhone/iPad, etc. using the MobileMe setup in Settings>Mail/Contacts/Calendars as well as the Find My iPhone App (plus it's your logon to the MobileMe Find My iPhone web page).
When you log in to the MobileMe page, BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU ENTER YOUR APPLE ID IF IT'S A FULL EMAIL ADDRESS: apparently, the ID field automatically tries to change it to "[email protected]" instead of your "[email protected]". Just check it before and after you enter your Apple ID password and submit.
I did this and it works. Find My iPhone app and service works beautifully. Spotted my iPad right where I'm at on a map. I sent a message to my iPad via the service (which also offers the option to play a sound, lock the device or even wipe the device).
I hope this information helps SOMEONE.
Oh...interesting footnote: I was informed that APPLE IDs CANNOT BE DELETED. Even if you create a "test" Apple ID (like I did during our troubleshooting session) with some barely used email account using a weak password. That means, regardless of whether you use it or not for MobileMe/Find My iPhone, you really, really need to give it a SECURE password (if you're going to keep that email account alive). So yeah, there are a lot of dormant Apple IDs floating around out there!

I agree.
I found this 'bug' out the other day when getting ready for my new iPhone I was setting up my iPad with some new apps too and wanted to work with Find My iPhone.
Here's the deal; my main AppleID is just a simple 'Username' not a '[email protected]' AppleID.
I've had this since the need for AppleIDs were used for these forums and the iTunes Store, AppStore, etc.
So it works fine and well with that stuff but not with find my iphone on my iPad as it wants a full email account, either a '@me.com' or a '[email protected]' AppleID which I did create but I think it was used as Job profile or something other along those lines (NOT used for a MobileMe account or .mac either).
And I only have access to one email now and I dont feel comfortable having multiple email addresses that I dont check or have no use for, call my simple or naive but thats just how it goes.
What I'd like to do is be able to use either AppleID for my Find My iPhone app and everything else.
And I think thats a good point, '@me.com's for all. make it a whole lot easier in my opinion.
merge all the apple accounts you created into a MobileMe, simplifies the situation and makes it easier connect to all Apple Services.
My itunes account, apple.com store account, appstore account, main AppleID for the past couple years it "Maxwell Stanley" but it does NOT work with Find My iPhone. So i created [email protected] (example.com is in place of my true email domain for privacy reasons) and that doesnt work as it statse it Cannot Be used.
My 'Maxwell Stanley" Apple ID's email associated with it was [email protected] i tried changing it to [email protected] but still doesnt recognize that as an AppleID even though its associated with "Maxwell Stanley".
I event ried to use the SAME email that is associated with my 2nd AppleID '[email protected]' with the appleid 'Maxwell Stanley' and no dice.
running out of options it seems.
Any idea on the best solution?
Thank you!

I would like to change my apple id to one of my alternate email addresses so therefore i would have to delete the alternate email address as an alternate email address and it says that if i do that it will permanently be deleted from my account

I would like to change my apple id to one of my alternate email addresses so therefore i would have to delete the alternate email address as an alternate email address and it says that if i do that it will permanently be deleted from my account so could i use that email address as my primary one?

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