Once you first register for an Apple Account (previously Apple ID), you should use both a brand new e mail deal with offered by Apple (with an @icloud.com deal with) or one you have already got. You’ll be able to have a number of e mail addresses related together with your Apple ID, however just one main deal with—the core deal with you’ll use to log in and to which vital Apple Account-related emails can be delivered.
It was a ache to alter this, involving a multi-step course of you can solely do on the internet. With iOS 18.1, Apple has made it quite a bit simpler to alter your main Apple ID deal with, and you are able to do it proper out of your iPhone or iPad. (The online nonetheless works, too.) Right here’s the way you do it.
Change your Apple Account main e mail in your iPhone or iPad
First, guarantee your units are operating iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, or a later model.
- Open Settings, then faucet your identify on the high to entry your Apple account settings
- Faucet Signal-In & Safety
- Faucet the e-mail deal with marked “Main e mail”
- Flip off the Main E-mail swap to take away this as your foremost e mail. You’ll be prompted to pick out a brand new main e mail deal with, both from one other e mail related together with your Apple Account or by including a brand new one
- Observe the onscreen steps to enter and confirm your new main e mail deal with
When you have a third-party e mail deal with (not an @icloud.com or @me.com deal with) related together with your Apple Account and also you need to take away it, simply choose it and faucet Take away from Account. If it’s your Main deal with you’ll be prompted to decide on or create a brand new main.
For Apple-supplied e mail deal with (@icloud.com or @me.com) you’ll as a substitute see an choice to Change E-mail Deal with, which helps you to choose a distinct e mail deal with however not take away it out of your account.
Change your Apple Account main e mail on the internet
In case you don’t have an iPhone or iPad (you solely use a Mac, or possibly an Apple TV or one thing) you’ll be able to change your main e mail on the internet.
- Go to account.apple.com and register
- Choose Signal-In and Safety on the left menu, after which E-mail & Telephone Numbers
- Click on the Take away button (-) subsequent to your main e mail
- Observe the onscreen steps to enter and confirm your new main e mail deal with