Goodbye xxx@Shaw.ca

RideForever

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I have 4 xxxxx@shaw.ca email addresses each used for distinct purposes. Alan Perry's Tech Talk this weekend confirmed the need to start the process of saying Goodbye. Should Rogers lose, Shaw will probably discontinue with emails.

When I set up an iCloud account previously, I used one of those Shaw addresses as the Apple ID. That address will disappear in due course. Hopefully, if I can figure this out.

There seems to be a lack of clarity for folks who did not come out of the womb with Apple in trying to setup an iCloud email account. On iMac, In Mail/Add Account/iCloud Provider, the attached box (1st.jpg) opens. There is the "Sign in..." sentence right at the top and underneath what to do if there is no Apple ID followed immediately by the Apple ID input box.

One would expect that if you Sign In you are doing so with the existing Apple ID (the xxx@shaw.ca address, then you will be led to a process to create a New Account email address but it seems to be the options one would select for operating with iCloud with that xxx@shaw.ca address (2nd.jpg). And using Cancel, does not take you back one step but back to square one !!!

If I instead use the Create Apple ID, I get to the next box (3rd.jpg) and whatever I input as the xxxxx@icloud.com, it shows up as already being taken and it is inconceivable that what I selected could have been already been used. It makes me think that since I have tried with the options I chose, then it throws back to me a "not available" message.

I would like to create an iCloud email address to replace the Shaw email address as the Apple ID and have a couple more iCloud email addresses. Is this possible and how can it be done?

P.S., the attachments will not attach????
 

chas_m

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You don’t need to create a new iCloud email address if you already have one (or a @me.com, or a @mac.com — these are all interchangeable). IIRC, you can only have one iCloud.com address, but up to four more @icloud.com email aliases under a single Apple ID.

To be sure you have not already created an iCloud email address that you may have forgotten about, you can look in the Messages preferences on any iOS device; it will show all the Apple addresses or phone numbers you are contactable at.

If you are dead certain you have never created an iCloud/.me/.Mac account, you can create one by going to Settings -> your name -> iCloud, and switch on iCloud Mail, and you will be prompted to create an iCloud email address. If it’s already switched on, then you do already have an iCloud email address.

You can change your Apple ID to use your iCloud address. The step-by-step on that is right here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667

IMPORTANT: You must have had that iCloud/.me/.Mac email address for at least one full month before you can switch your existing Apple ID email to the iCloud email.

ALSO IMPORTANT: If you don’t have a phone number listed with Apple that can accept text messages, then you really should have a secondary, non-Apple email address (not your Shaw one, of course) so that Apple can assist in recovering your account if you forget your Apple ID password.
 
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