TRANSFER AN EMAIL ADDRESS AND PURCHASES FROM A SHARED APPLE ID
The brittleness of the Apple ID account management system can lead to some funny but common situations. Picture the following that a reader asked about:
You share an Apple ID with someone else or more than one person.
You use iCloud email aliases to allow each of you to have your own account in effect.
But you now want separate Apple IDs. What happens to the email address? And all the stuff you’ve collectively purchased?
There’s a solution for both issues.
Forward your iCloud email
Whether an iCloud address is in use for email or as the primary or login email on an Apple ID account, you can’t migrate it to another account. (There is a method if you’re using a non-Apple address for your Apple ID login; read “How to shift an email address from one Apple ID to another.”)
But you can forward incoming email by filtering on the alias. That’s what some people already do to share an Apple ID. Here’s how if you haven’t already set this up:
1. Create a new Apple ID account or an email account at another host.
2. Log in at icloud.com and click Mail.
3. Click the gear icon at the top of the left-hand Mailboxes list
4. Select Preferences and then click Rules.
5. Click “Add rule.”
6. Select the option for “If a message” as “is addressed to” and fill in the full iCloud address, like example@icloud.com.
7. Below the Then label, select “Forward to” and enter the full address for forwarding email, like person@example.com.
Click Add and then
