How to retain an Apple ID while switching your iCloud email address<article>
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<p>What if your iCloud.com address receives so much spam or other unwanted email that it’s useless to you and you want to abandon it? If it’s also your Apple ID account name, you might think you were out of luck. Apple doesn’t let you change an Apple ID’s email account login
to any other address if it ends in icloud.com, mac.com, or me.com.</p><p>Apple does let you add email aliases that end in @icloud.com, but these aliases can only receive email. They can’t be converted into an Apple ID login.</p><p>However, iCloud.com’s Mail interface can let create a mail rule that can offer what you need while also preserving your Apple ID account. You simply push all incoming mail to the iCloud address you no longer want to use into the trash.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3388072/how-to-retain-an-apple-id-while-switching-your-icloud-email-address.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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How to retain an Apple ID while switching your iCloud email address
