RE: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Friday, 21 February 2014 11:35 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud okay, so does this mean my icloud email address cannot become my primary id that replaces the gmail one? Or does it mean that it can be used interchangeably with my gmail one and so I could jus

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Oh, I hadn't thought of that but it might work. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I ha

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

okay, so does this mean my icloud email address cannot become my primary id that replaces the gmail one? Or does it mean that it can be used interchangeably with my gmail one and so I could just drop the gmail one? Would I lose purchases if I dropped the gmail one unless I replace it with anothe

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Thanks. Actually I'm not at the moment having great issues with gmail; I left Mavericks on my iPad Air but went back to Mountain lion on my iMac and am mostly doing email there. But I still would like to change to icloud. I have alreadyu copied messages from one folder into one made under iClo

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hi , You can also keep the old Apple ID but change the primary email associated with it. This is what I have done. I've kept my old Apple ID but changed the email address. A bit less hassle to change an Apple ID on all devices, and the emails still come through to your new active email address.

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hi Cheryl, According to Apple, you are totally able to change the eMail address associated with your Apple ID. To see details, visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5621 The main thing to note in here is the conditions up front. One of them being that it can't be an iCloud account as the iClo

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hi Cheryl, I have been doing this over the last few days, and here is what I have discovered hopefully it helps. I think it is best if you are having serious gmail issues with mac mail like I was having to remove gmail from your computer, go to gmail and set up all your gmail messages to forwa

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

I have a couple of questions about this. 1. I could leave my gmail account open if I do this and use forwarding through icloud and keep my gmail address as my Apple ID. If I really wanted to eventually get rid of gmail, is there a way to change Apple ID that then would put all of my purchases u

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hey Tim, Agreed, and sorry that I don't always have the coolest head when dealing with issues. I get very impatient as I am running two benefits in April one in L.A. and one in NYC, so constantly having to deal with severe email issues is a major problem when I need to be working on both benefi

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hi, Glad to hear that things are going semi-smoothly for you for now. Not that I'm trying to be an Apple Defender, though I should let you know that iCloud was, at least in the past, a totally separate entity from Apple. MobileMe was the pre-cursor to iCloud and it's web-interface was even wo

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Hey migrating all of your saved emails from gmail to iCloud in mam mail is very quick. The long part is finding the settings on websites that email you and changing your email. I have set up a forwarding from all gmail to iCloud which actually works very well. Not sure why none of my rules seem

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Thanks Terresa, I appreciate you getting back to me. I didn't see this before I posed my other question, Lol. zI want to change my email and hopefully not have to change my apple Id, sort of leave it the way it is since I'm getting my iTunes match under that Id and what not, but just trying to m

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

It's not difficult, but it's a little time-consuming. I've switched my email groups over, but decided to leave the facebook and a couple of lists on Gmail. I'd suggest doing it in steps. For many groups, such as Gmail and Yahoo, there are instructions with page links for how to change your subsc

Re: Changing from Gmail to iCloud

Changing email addresses for your different services depends on the service. Setting up iCloud on new Apple devices is as simple as signing into iCloud, which you'd likely do anyway, and enabling Mail on that device. Just like that, all the settings are entered and your messages are downloading.