How To Change Apple ID Email Address?
If you switched to a new email address and no longer use your old one, you should change your old email address associated with your Apple ID for security purposes. Depending on the email service that you use, the steps for changing the email address is different. Continue to read to learn how to change Apple ID email address.
- Step : 1 Before you change the email address, sign out of all Apple and other services that use your Apple ID.
- Step : 2 See if the email address that you used to create your Apple ID is of Apple or Non-Apple email domain.
- Step : 3 The icloud.com, me.com, and mac.com are the Apple email addresses, and some Non-Apple email addresses are gmail.com, yahoo.com, etc.
For Non-Apple email:
- Step : 1 Launch the browser window and visit the official Apple ID website.
- Step : 2 Enter the login credentials and sign in to the Apple account.
- Step : 3 Once the webpage opens up, click the Edit button at the right end, in the Accounts section.
- Step : 4 You can find the Change Apple ID link below the Apple ID. Now, click the link.
- Step : 5 Following that, the page prompts to enter the new email address you want to link with the Apple ID.
- Step : 6 Type the email address and click Continue.
- Step : 7 After the email address is changed, close the window and check the newly added email account for a verification email message from the developer.
- Step : 8 Revisit the Apple account on the browser window and check if the email address has been changed under the Account section.
For Apple email:
- Step : 1 In this, you cannot change the Apple ID email address to any third-party email address.
- Step : 2 You can change the Apple email address only to another Apple email address associated with the Apple account.
- Step : 3 When you do not have an alias email address, you cannot change the Apple ID email.
- Step : 4 The only way is to create a new Apple account with the desired email address, but you have to add all the data to the Apple account.
- Step : 5 Use this above procedure to change Apple ID email address.
