“Apple IDs use an email address to identify each user,” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld. “Problems can occur when you can’t access that email address anymore, which leads to an inquiry by Macworld reader Deborah: ‘My Apple ID is associated with my work email which I no longer have access to after leaving the company. How can I change this to my current account without creating problems?'”
“Fortunately, as log as you can still log into your Apple ID account at appleid.apple.com, you can change your email address, thus changing the Apple ID login to that new address,” Fleishman explains. “Starting in iOS 10.3, you can make this change directly from an iOS device, too. Apple has full instructions here, and says it may ask you security questions to validate your identity before the email is sent that lets you confirm a new email address.”
Fleishman writes, “Here’s some advice to head off this problem beforehand…”
Read on for some good advice here.
MacDailyNews Note: Our usual reminder: Always employ strong, unique passwords for every service and use multi-step verification wherever possible.
Mac users can use Apple’s Keychain Access and iCloud Keychain to create and manage them. For those of us who are smartly all-Apple, it works like a dream.
MDN Take: “Mac users can use Apple’s Keychain Access and iCloud Keychain to create and manage them. For those of us who are smartly all-Apple, it works like a dream.”
It’d be nice if Apple could add a similar app to iOS, so we wouldn’t have to rely on third party password management apps.
iCloud Keychain.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204085
Apple should use USER NAMES not email addresses, so you can change the account to use a different email address if you need to use a different one. If you have an Apple email address you are screwed if you need to move to another email address.
I found this out when I had to make such a change because of all the bloody spam I was getting on my iCloud email address. Apple is fucking stupid IMO.
Unless I missed some grand announcement, Apple still hasn’t allowed long-timers to merge our old and separate multiple dot-Mac (and dot-Me and iCloud) accounts into one…or at least fewer…accounts.
Comparative newbies probably won’t even know what I’m talking about.