Will adding an iCloud email change my Apple ID?

1. I have an Apple ID using a [email protected] address, not a @mac or @me email.
2. To get push email, I need to assign a @me.com email to it. I want to do this. I have a big fear though. And that is...
3. If I assign a new @me.com (for iCloud push) email to my existing Apple ID, will that new @me.com become the new Apple ID, replacing the current
[email protected] ?
4. I do NOT want my Apple ID to change to be a @me.com email. I just want to add an @me.com email so I can use push, but I do NOT want it to replace my exisitng Apple ID.
Thx.

You can't add an existing @me.com address to an Apple ID because it already is an apple ID.
If you sign into System Preferences>iCloud with your mydomain ID you will be asked to create an @me.com address; this will become the iCloud account's email address but will not change the login ID.

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I've had my apple ID, which is my name, for MANY years. At some point, I was forced to change my apple ID to an email address. I changed it to a yahoo.com address, an email address I've had for ages. Now I have 2 apple IDs. When I do updates on my computer I often have to log into both because some programs were originally installed with my name only ID, and others later with my yahoo account ID.
I've always been confused about Icloud, because I cannot access all of the features because I don't have an @icloud, @mac, or @me email address. I'm considering adding an icloud email address, but am afraid of what the consequences might be. I have a completely different email address that I use for all of my regular email.
Will my name only apple ID change to [email protected]?
Will the apps that I originally downloaded with the nameonly ID know this?
What will happen on my ipad and iphone5?
will i need to set up another email account on my iphone so that my pictures will stream to photos?
Thanks for your help
Todd.

You can create an iCloud account using your existing Yahoo.com ID rather than creating a new ID. (You can use the other one because it has to be in the form of an email address and linked to a verifiable email account.) To do this you would go to System Preferences>iCloud and sign in with the ID to create the account, then check the data you want to sync with iCloud. When you check Mail, you will be prompted to create your @icloud.com email address. This is the email account that goes with your iCloud account, if you wish to use iCloud email. When you type the name you would like to use for this address, iCloud will search and tell you if it's already taken by someone else, in which case you will have to choose another. Type carefully, as once created, your @icloud.com address cannot be changed. Understand that your iCloud account ID will still be your @yahoo.com address. The @icloud.com address you choose is for email only.
None of this will effect your existing purchased media using your two Apple IDs. These will stay the same as purchases are permanently tied to the ID used to purchase them. Also, Apple will not merge IDs.

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You will wait for the rest of your life. You need to fix it; no one else will. To turn off "Find my iPhone" and its associated Activation Lock you need the Apple ID and password that were used to turn it on. If you know the Apple ID you can contact Apple Account Security and have them reset the password (after you prove you are the rightful owner of that Apple ID). see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699.
If you don't know the Apple ID the phone is permanently unusable.

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How i can receive icloud mail if my icloud email disabled from apple?
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If Apple has disabled or deactivated your e-mail account, then you will not be able to use it. Did Apple tell you why it was disabled?
If you don't know why Apple disabled it, you'll need to contact Apple Support to find out why.
Apple Support
http://www.apple.com/support/

I forgot the icloud email and the apple id

hi
i have a problem with my old phone i forgot the icloud email and the apple id
i know the password
the phone was restored and needs the icloud to be activated
help pls

try
http://iforgot.apple.com
or
http://appleid.apple.com
To recover the forgottom ID.
There is no method to bypass teh activation lock and can only be done with the original Apple ID that was used to register the device.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818

ICloud Email Change, Nothing will work.

Here is the issue:
I am trying to restore my iPhone to a previous backup. It will not let me because "Find My iPhone" is on. I cannot turn it off because in iCloud, it is signed in with an account that basically doesn't exist. I changed my Apple ID email to a new email, and for some reason, on iCloud, it is still my old email. I cannot do anything with iCloud because I need to sign in to my account with an email that no longer exists, which means that the password I have had forever doesn't work, because THE ACCOUNT DOESN'T EXCIST! I cannot delete the account, because to do that you need to log in, and again, the log in is with an email that doesn't exsist. I also really need to restore to a back up. I use iPhone 5.

If the old ID is yours, and if your new ID was created by editing the details of this old ID (rather than being an entirely new ID), go 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. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account 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 and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

My Apple ID and my iCloud id are under different emails how do I change my iCloud email to my apple email

help I have a new email address which I have changed on my Apple ID but my iCloud email is under my old email so can't sign in, how do I change it so my Apple ID and my iCloud id are under the same email and password

If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID and that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.
The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device. It may take a short while to remove the account.
You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.

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How can I change my rescue email or get rid of it? I need to change my email under my apple ID to the email that is my rescue email. It won't allow me to have the same email. I only have one email address and can no longer access the email address under my apple ID

Welcome to the Apple community.
Once you have created a rescue address, you cannot delete it, nor can you change it to the same address as used by your ID. There are numerous providers you can get additional email addresses from, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Google etc etc.

I have a problem. My Apple ID is not my icloud email address my Apple ID is my msn account, but I need to reset the password for my icloud email because I can't remember what it is. How do I do that?

I have a problem. My Apple ID is not my iCloud email, my msn is my Apple ID, but I need to reset the password for my icloud email address because I can't remember what it is. How can do I reset my iCloud emaill password when it's not my Apple ID??

Your iCloud and @icloud.com login ID is an Apple ID. Go to http://appleid.apple.com and sign in with the ID you use to sign into iCloud (you can check this by going to http://www.icloud.com and signing in there).
Click 'Password & Security' in the sidebar and you will be able to change the password.
HOWEVER
Before you do this you must turn off 'Find My iPhone/iPad/iMac' if you have it enabled on any of your devices, otherwise you will land yourself in difficulties.

Icloud email change on one phone currently used by 2

my husband and I both use the same icloud account and apple id, however with these new iphone 6's it seems to cause a lot of issues and I was suppose to create a new icloud account for his phone before they switched his info over but I didn't get the chance too. So, we currently have the same icloud account email and apple id. I don't mind having the same apple id, however the icloud email is a different story, it seems everything is showing up on his phone from mine such as who I called etc. is there a way that I can just change the icloud email on his phone and keep the apple id the same and leave mine the same all together? if so, how do I do that without him losing all of his information?

He can migrate his phone to a new account but he will need a new Apple ID to create it. He can create his new ID by going here: https://appleid.apple.com/account. Then to migrate his phone to a new account he should go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out (which only removes the account from his phone, not from iCloud; your phone won't be effected by this), choose Keep on My iPhone and provide the password to turn off Find My iPhone when prompted. Then he can sign back in with his new Apple ID to create his new account and choose Merge to upload a copy of the iCloud data to his new account. Once you are on separate iCloud accounts, you can each go to iCloud.com and delete the other person's data from your account. He will have to choose a new @icloud.com email account to go with his new iCloud account.
You can continue to share the same original ID for other services such as your iTunes store account if you want to. The ID you use for iCloud does not need to be the same as the ID you use for other services. However, to avoid getting each other's text messages and FaceTime calls you should use different IDs for these services. He should go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with his new iCloud ID. Then he should do the same thing in Settings>FaceTime.

ICloud email change help

I changed the email I was using for iCloud a while ago. I recently got a different iPhone, and it continues to prompt me to sign into iCloud, but it has the old email in the email spot, so obviously when I try to sign on it won't work. It also does not give me the option to type in the new email address. That part is grayed out so I cannot change it. Help!

In order to change your Apple ID or password for your iCloud account on your iOS device, you need to delete the account from your iOS device first, then add it back using your updated details. (Settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit "Delete Account")
Providing you are simply updating your existing details and not changing to another account, when you delete your account, all the data that is synced with iCloud will also be deleted from the device (but not from iCloud), but will be synced back to your device when you login again.

What will be the consequences of changing the apple ID on my iPad to a different apple ID on my iMac?

Hi,
I have an (iPad 2) and an iMac (2012). I have one apple ID used for both the itunes and appstore on the iPad, and on the iMac a different apple ID used for the appstore and itunes. What will be the consequences of changing my email ID on the ipad to the one used on the imac? I don't want to delete the iPad apple ID, just never use it again. I just want to work with 1 apple ID over the 2 devices.
I have purchased apps on the iPad and other documents/movies/books etc and if I sync to the iMac will all that be deleted? How can I just use the one apple ID for all? Does it mean that every time I connect my iPad to the iMac that I have to login to itunes using the iPad apple ID? Maybe it is that simple I don't know.
What will be the consequences of doing this and is it possible?
Thanks.

settings->itunes & app stores->click appleID and choose logout

How to set up an iCloud email with the Apple Mail app

If your computer does not automatically setup up your iCloud email app then you will have to set it up manually using these mail server settings:
It worked on my MacBook Running OS X 10.6.8
support.apple.com/kb/HT4864
(You may have to copy and paste the link instead of clicking on the link)

Plug it in, and if desired, set it up in the Displays pane of System Preferences.
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How Can i Move iCloud Email to Another Apple ID

Hi There
I have 2 Apple IDS
Apple ID 1 is linked to my imessage and linked to an @me.com email address
Apple ID 2 has no icloud email
I basically want to move my icloud (@me.com) email address to the Apple ID 2 and use that for iMessage as well as my Apple ID
When i change my icloud username to Match Apple ID 2, it doesnt wants me to create a new icloud email address.
How can I move my icloud email address linked to Apple ID1 to Apple ID 2?

I don't believe you can. @me.com email addressses are permanently tied to the iCloud account that created them (in your example, ID1) and can't be moved.

Why can't I use my iCloud email as my Apple ID's primary email?

I want to use my iCloud email as my primary email address so that I can recieve purchase receipts on this email without having to repurchase all my apps and have to juggle two IDs. Apple seems to not want to let me do this. Is there anything I can do? Setting my iCloud as a secondary email doesn't help.

submit feedback about this so hopefully it gets changed https://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html

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