If you are an existing iCloud Mail user with an @mac.com or @me.com email address, Apple has reserved an @icloud.com email address for you. You will receive an @icloud.com equivalent for every active @me.com or @mac.com email address or alias that you have as part of your account.
To make your @icloud.com address the default address for sending email from your iCloud account, follow the steps below.
In iOS 6:
• Go to Settings > iCloud > Account (your Apple ID) > Advanced: Mail.
• Under “iCloud Account Information”, tap your email address.
• From the list of addresses available, tap the @icloud.com email address you would like to use as the default address for sending mail from iCloud Mail.
In OS X Mountain Lion or Lion v10.7.2 (or later):
• Go to Mail Preferences > Composing.
• Click the “Send new messages from” drop-down and select the @icloud.com email address you’d like to use.
In Outlook:
• In Outlook 2007: Choose Tools > Account Settings > Email tab, select your @icloud.com email address from the list, and click “Set as default.”
• In Outlook 2010: Choose File > Info > Account Settings > Email Tab, select your @icloud.com email address from the list, and click “Set as default.”
At iCloud.com:
• Go to the Mail app.
• Click the Action (gear icon) menu and choose Preferences.
• Under “Composing,” click the “Set a default address” drop-down and select the @icloud.com address you’d like to use.
All well and good but all my family & friends know me by the @me.com mail address. How do you expect me to change it to @icloud.com and expect them to remember that or update their contact sheet in the address book. Just too troublesome.
I don’t know why Apple didn’t just stick with @me.com or @mac.com and be done with it. I know it’s essential to brand it to @icloud.com but they really should have thought about it earlier, much earlier.
Emails sent to @me.com and @mac.com still get received. All domains point to the same place. I’ve not received the email from Apple yet, but believe that details how it works.
Your .mac and/or .me address won’t change!!! Keep using it as is!!
So stick with .me, no-one’s forcing you to change. (Rolls eyes).
I am still using my .mac suffix, never changing that!
Member since 2001 (iTools)
ditto
I personally think that the dot me ID is the best.
As long as I can still use my me and mac IDs I don’t care. It’s not like they are different accounts they are just aliases.
Next it will be “@buyanewiPadtoday.com”
Cool! When will that happen?
I like dot Me
People remember that when they can’t write your email down.
All I did was change it on my iPad mini per the directions here and it was automagically changed on my iPhone and Mac at home.
Simple. Thx Apple.
I’ll keep using my .mac address (been using it as my primary address since iTools), but @icloud is a LOT better than the silly @me in my opinion. I never liked the .me domain.
Switched to the new @icloud.com alias and all’s working fine. People can still use my me.com address so I’m not going to even bother telling people to update their address book. I just never liked “@me.com” even though it’s easy to remember.
I’m over Apple’s name changes… it’s not about receiving the email, it’s about 10 years of different online identities and I’m constantly having to figure out which one I signed up with. And now a third? And then another email change in another year with their next big idea? I’m switching to my own domain — too confusing.