How to: change the email address linked to your Apple ID account
Apple ID is the gateway to Apple's online services -- App Store, iCloud, iTunes and more -- and is a crucial part of your digital identity. AppleInsider shows you how to change the email address that serves as your Apple ID login credential in a few easy steps.
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Much better is to create your AppleID and also the free iCloud email that matches exactly. On the new ID, enable Family Sharing and link your old ID.
You asked for a work around - this is exactly what you asked for.
Likewise, an Apple ID still can't be changed from an Apple email address to a non-Apple email address, or vice versa.
Yes, that is really odd.
It's almost as if, years ago, Apple decided that the AppleID should be the primary key then linked it to everything else so it would be murder to allow people to change it.
Most DBAs I run into do the same thing when they hear this:
"Okay, you can use this customer reference as the primary key. I can guarantee that it will never need to change, now or ever."
The DBA nods politely, then sets up a unique, auto generating number as the primary key, so that the customer number can be changed without causing a problem.
No primary key should be visible to the users.
I'm pretty certain that Apple will never allow the actual AppleID to be changed, or implement a way of merging accounts. For one thing, not enough people ask for it, and secondly, it would be too bloody hard.
Is there a way of finding out which in-app purchases one has?!
The warnings in the video could have been much clearer!
"You may have the risk of removing in-app, unlock style purchases" ?? What is an in-app, "unlock style" purchase?! What is an "unlock style" as opposed to just an in-app purchase or a unlock one?! Is it a "risk"? Or, is it as posters are saying, a definite thing?!
Then, the speaker said:
"consumables don't seem to.affected, but one time use charges seem to be removed from your account"
"consumables"?! What are we doing, buying toner for our printers?! :-)
"one time use charges" is also oddly phrased. If it's only one time, who cares if I get it back or not?! Clearly, the speaker needed to state this differently!
What would help is a print story to accompany this-- with the warnings spelled out clearly, unambiguously!
From Apple itself with good photos: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667
From iMore: http://www.imore.com/how-change-email-address-associated-your-apple-id
This, though, is probably the best as it includes a warning about apps and IDs; it's oddly worded, however.
http://osxdaily.com/2014/08/01/change-apple-id-ios/
This is one gets into how to handle an email that is not verified!
https://9to5mac.com/2013/07/20/how-to-change-the-email-address-associated-with-your-apple-id/
I imagine that doing two things FIRST before logging are ESSENTIAL if you don't want to lose recent purchases. :
1. Transferring all purchases from each device.
2. Syncing each device. Make sure that iTunes has backed up your device as part of the sync. If not, click the backup button.
Doing step #2 alone should work as it will prompt you in each case to backup unsaved purchases. Dumbly, Apple requires you to exit the synching, transfer all purchases from the device, and then start synching again!
It seems like they didn't think that families grow up and move out. The whole thing is very clunky sometimes.
Once iTunes Match was released, I was able to attempt to play one of the yahoo.com songs, then authenticate when asked. Now that the computer was authorized to play those yahoo.com tracks, I ran Match, deleted the previous files and downloaded higher quality and DRM-free tracks. That cost $25 for the year. Now it's essentially free if you do it during the trial period for Apple Music.
Unfortunately, there is a "video only" crowd. We appreciate your reading, though!
All together now ... FAMILY SHARING !!!