Apple ID questions

another_casualty

Howdy !

When I purchased all of my various Apple products over the years , my user ID has always been the BT internet email address .
I have always had a gmail account , and will explain that later.

In November 2016 I left BT when I moved home ,and still use my gmail address for pretty much everything . My broadband is with Vodafone ,but I didn't bother using that email address yet as I was still settling into a new life pattern and moved home to my present abode.

When I bought my new iMac on Black Friday of november last year , I got an iTunes voucher ( electronically of course), sent to my Bt address. I managed to get Apple to send that to my g mail address.
However, Apple say that they cannot update my Apple ID to my gmail address .
Questions : Is this because gmail is a free email service and that Vodafone's / BT would prove my identity so to speak ?

Also, Is it better for me to have more than the one email address (gmail) that I have ?

Thanks

Oakdene

another_casualty wrote: »

Howdy !

When I purchased all of my various Apple products over the years , my user ID has always been the BT internet email address .
I have always had a gmail account , and will explain that later.

In November 2016 I left BT when I moved home ,and still use my gmail address for pretty much everything . My broadband is with Vodafone ,but I didn't bother using that email address yet as I was still settling into a new life pattern and moved home to my present abode.

When I bought my new iMac on Black Friday of november last year , I got an iTunes voucher ( electronically of course), sent to my Bt address. I managed to get Apple to send that to my g mail address.
However, Apple say that they cannot update my Apple ID to my gmail address .
Questions : Is this because gmail is a free email service and that Vodafone's / BT would prove my identity so to speak ?

Also, Is it better for me to have more than the one email address (gmail) that I have ?

Thanks

I changed mine online, though to an @live address.

grumpycrab

another_casualty wrote: »

Questions : 1. Is this [Apple say that they cannot update my Apple ID to my gmail address] because gmail is a free email service and that Vodafone's / BT would prove my identity so to speak ?

2. Also, Is it better for me to have more than the one email address (gmail) that I have ?

1. I'm not an Apple expert but the bottom link doesn't exclude Gmail (doesn't mean it won't fail when you try it!); Vodafone/BT emails don't have to identify a person.

2. You can have as many or as few email addresses as you like. Gmail (you can have more than 1) has a good spam filter (in my opinion) and if you're worried about security enable 2-factor authentication.
https://www.google.com/landing/2step/

Changing AppleID :-
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202667#otheraddress

another_casualty

Thanks grumpy crab
I will look into this when I'm not feeling melted in this weather .
I will update when done