Did you know that Apple started rolling out @icloud.com email addresses to all of its users alongside iOS 6 this month? Whether you know about it or not, Cupertino has a handy FAQ to guide you.
Apple has posted a new page to its support website entitled "iCloud: About @icloud.com email addresses." While iCloud has been around almost a year now, the company didn't start offering email addresses to match the service until September 19 of this year to coincide with the release of iOS 6.
The move may spark some confusion for users who have been around through MobileMe or even .Mac, since these users already have @me.com or @mac.com email addresses (or both). The good news is, those addresses aren't going anywhere -- you can continue using them, but now have the same account with @icloud.com as well.
For some of us, the move means we'll now have a long list of email addresses to choose from in our iCloud account, particularly if you're also taking advantage of email aliases. But fear not, no matter which account you choose to send email from, it will all come back to the same place.
@icloud.com addresses can also be used to sign into iCloud or other Apple services, although the support page notes that email aliases cannot be used for this purpose -- only the original account name with any of the available suffixes.
If you're not seeing an @icloud.com address in your account yet, don't fret: Apple says "it will take a few weeks" to grant you access to the new address, and users will be notified via email when that blessed day arrives.
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chodaboy
September 27, 2012 at 2:33pm
For me this means I can finally get rid of my @me.com.
Just before MobileMe ended I got an email address I wanted to use for business, but hated the @me.com ending. How conceited! Now I will simply ditch this and use @icloud.com. But how I wish I could have added it under @mac.com.
For my personal account, I never used @me and never will. I will also never use @icloud. I'll just stick with @mac.
Carsten Legaard
September 27, 2012 at 1:52pm
It was exactly the same feeling. Microsoft had stopped listening to plain users and came up with golden solutions to things that were no problem. And the more the company wanted to salvate us, the more it failed.
Now this feeling come creeping again, but this time it is Apple.
And it is not just a feeling.
I look at my machine, my apps and my docs and I recognize too little.
I am not in control anymore. Big Brother have taken over. And Big Brother is Apple and the mysterious world of iClown, sorry, iCloud.
I don't get it.
I don't buy it.
And it has certainly not made my day even though it's a punk.
pdwickizer
September 27, 2012 at 12:42pm
I would have much rather they allowed the merging of Apple ID's so that I could eliminate some e-mail addresses.
Zoidbert
September 27, 2012 at 8:42am
I've gone back to using my @mac.com address with everything; changed it back on my business cards, and have been re-registering/updating registrations with my @mac.com address.
ctoddy
September 27, 2012 at 8:20am
Just what I've been asking for. A 3rd email address that goes to the exact same place as the 2nd email address I was asking for to go with my .mac email address.
Please read with HEAVY sarcasm.
