I am changing my name, and would like to get a new icloud email.
Can I change my existing one and have the original one forwarded for a long time?
I am confused about Aliases, and don’t want to open a 2nd icloud account.
How do you test new icloud addresses to see if they are in use?
thanks, Asha
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Asha Carter
Basically, you create an iCloud email alias address, and then switch to it. Apple have instructions here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667
Look for the section titled "How to change your Apple ID if it ends with @icloud.com, @me.com, or @mac.com."
thanks Gary, I watched the video and was a little confused about aliases.
Perhaps because I had something else in mind, not using aliases
for instance if I had..
oldname@icloud
and wanted to change it to
newname@icloud.
How could I slowly phase out oldname@icloud.?
Can I create a simple forwarder for the oldname@icloud.
Asha: Read that page carefully to see what is possible. If you can't figure it out from there you'll need to call Apple support. I think what you want may not be possible. Instead, you may just have to set up an alias (https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/use-email-aliases-mm6b1a490a/icloud) and then just start using that alias as your email address for correspondence and other non-Apple things. But then you'd stick with your original Apple ID email address for logging on to your Apple accounts.
My ipad is asking me to Sign in to iCloud..but..It is asking for old ID that no longer exist and I do not even know it anymore. I have a new ID set up, how do I connect my ipad to this account? tx.
Pavla: Go into Settings and change your Apple ID there.