• SurpriseCandid8978
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    1 year ago

    Set your reply to email address to your iCloud email and add a like in your signature to get people to update their address book with your new email.

    You will still need to log into each web service and change your email over though. At that point, might as well use “hide my email” for all of those web services (or to anyone really).

    Maybe setup a rule so that all emails arrive to you via the forward from gmail will go into a different folder for you to review. At least for a bit. Maybe after a month or 2. You can fully transition over

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      1 year ago

      BTW… If your Apple ID is linked to something other than an iCloud Mail keep in mind that you won’t be able to switch to an iCloud mail address as primary address for your Apple ID. I did all this transition last week and spoke to apple for like an hour. They told me there is no way to switch. So now my gmail is like the user name for my Apple ID, every mail that is sent to gmail now gets forwarded to an hide my mail email. The problem was, that „hide my mail“ mails get normally forwarded to your primary Apple ID Mail address, in my case the gmail address. So what I did now was creating an iCloud mail over my iPhone‘s iCloud settings and then went to iCloud.com on my browser, where you then are able to switch the „hide my mails“ recipient address to the just created iCloud mail. Pretty complicated solution, but the only way to at least kind of get rid of my gmail address…

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          1 year ago

          Hmm… If i am Reading this right, my problem could have been, that my iCloud mail wasn’t created more than 30days ago. I will definitely try that.

          I just wonder why apple support didn’t came up with that…

          I will update once I tried (iCloud email is currently about 6/7 days old, so I will have to wait a while)

          Oh and Thanks for that suggestion!

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            1 year ago

            it was smooth for me, I went to this address:

            https://appleid.apple.com/account/manage

            • Signed in with my existing gmail Apple ID
            • clicked the Apple ID link to change my address
            • entered my @me.com address
            • grabbed the verification code from my email

            and that was pretty much it, now I can sign in with my @me address for Apple ID

            I didn’t even need to log out on any of my devices, they display the @me address in the settings as my Apple ID instead of the gmail address

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                1 year ago

                trying to ditch google entirely

                I already changed about a dozen services from my gmail address to my @me address, but I have a ton more I need to track down

                I also set gmail to forward all emails to my @me address so I can monitor stragglers since I anticipate I will be getting emails to gmail for a while still