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by huxley 4007 days ago
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The linked article is an incoherent rant by a man who is upset because he thinks he can't have his wife's iCloud login changed, while cynically trying to frame it as a case of sexism.

Apple provides up to 3 aliases per iCloud account that can be changed at anytime and it's not difficult at all to use them as the primary email addresses. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks like you can even change the Apple ID yourself after logging out your devices:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667
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barlescabbage 4007 days ago
Um, no. You can't change the apple ID email if you're using apple's email. I ran into this problem myself.

I signed up with a nickname email when I was younger. For example teenager@mac.com. You can later make an alias like John@mac.com. But every time you sign into iCloud, or write a new email on your phone, it's gonna default to teenager@mac.com.

It is a really bad issue for people that use apple's mac email exclusively.

And I can sympathize with the article. If you're divorced, and you change your name, you have to sign into iCloud with your ex husbands name every time you sign in or send a default email. You can't change it.

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huxley 4007 days ago
You definitely aren't stuck defaulting to the email address for iCloud, I just switched the default on my iPhone, if that was ever the case, it isn't in iOS 8:

Go into Settings/iCloud/Advanced/Mail

You can then pick what email to send from and it lets you pick the default email address to use. Click Done and it's switched.

The support article I linked to is misleading if you can't modify the Apple ID login if you use a .mac/.me/.icloud email address and would definitely be a bad hassle, Apple should allow the user login to be changed.

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ccvannorman 4007 days ago
Once upon a time I had an apple ID, which I lost the password for. Many updates and machines later, it still lingers on somehow, and I cannot prevent that ID from showing up for updates and Mac App Store logins. It's a huge pain in the ass, just another drop in the "I hate Apple" bucket, and for that reason I sympathize with this rant.

NOTE: The ID shows up in the "ID" field next to password and I cannot change it by clicking. Why the hell would you design a UX like this Apple. Huge fail.

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