Apple Finally Fixes the “My Email Is Embarrassing.com” Problem!
Folks, for years, Apple has been making us live with the shame. The shame of an iCloud email address we created in our youth, in a time of poor choices and questionable usernames. You know the ones – “[email protected],” “[email protected]” – emails that haunt our professional lives like a bad yearbook photo.
But finally, Apple has seen the light! With iOS 18.1, you can finally change your primary Apple ID email, the one that pops up when you’re sharing documents or sending calendar invites – the one that screams to the world, “I peaked in middle school!”
Before, you had to go through this whole rigmarole of deleting the email, choosing a new one, verifying, it was a mess. Now, you can just swap it out, keep the old one for logins, and move on with your life.
And it’s not just for Apple IDs, even your iCloud email, the one they wouldn’t let you touch before, can now be changed. No more hiding behind aliases! You can finally embrace a professional, mature email address.
So, thank you, Apple, for finally freeing us from the shackles of our digital past. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some emails to delete.
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