Even as it let us continue using or it put limits on those.
Whatever we had to do back on our iMac (Early 2008) machines, or later on our Mac Pro (Mid 2012, Dual CPU), we did it and we got to keep using our addresses without further difficulty.īut it's as if Apple bears a grudge. Some of us had been giving out our email address since the year 2000 and now clients were asking which address we wanted them to use. What was less nice is that Apple initially changed it so that emails you sent out were being marked with this alias as the return address. So if someone did choose to email you on their mail would get through to you. That same feature, though, let Apple decide to add an alias to your account. It was a good idea with seemingly not much take up from users because it was limited to a few aliases, and you also had to do it via. The idea is that you could create an email alias called and then if you did get a lot of spam to that address, you just turned the alias off. This is the feature that lets you give out basically a fake Apple Mail address and know that emails sent to it will appear in your regular inbox. There definitely wasn't anything where you could say yes or no to the change. Mac to MobileMe, but there wasn't anything about email addresses. In both cases, we were all notified of how the service was changing from, say. In 2012, we were seemingly emailing people from our addresses. Twice.Īt some point in 2008, we would find that we were apparently emailing people from the new address that we didn't even know we had. We did have to uncover settings and fathom out what was going on, though, because Apple helpfully changed our email address. Subscribe to AppleInsider on YouTube Apple changed your email address It's long enough ago that we cannot remember what we had to do to say, "Apple, no, we're keeping our addresses." In each case, though, the battles were 8 and 12 years ago. If you joined iCloud any time after the dust settled on September 19, 2012, you got and never had to know the difference.īoth and users did have to know. All of the changes were cumulative, too, so if you hung on to your address from all that time ago, you still have it - and an one. However, if you had one, you were using MobileMe, and you moved to iCloud before that Augdate, you got to keep Alternatively, if you created a brand new iCloud account before September 19, 2012, then you'd have both and not making this up. Things are a little woolier about when you would have started to get an address.
To be exact, you have still got an address because you had it and were actively using it on July 8, 2008, plus you kept your MobileMe account and - there's more - you moved to iCloud before August 1, 2012. If it ends in you got it during the briefer opportunity between then and 2012.
If your email ends in then you got it somewhere between 20. Mac, and MobileMe before you got to today's iCloud.
This email address was once championed by Apple as part of its iTools service back in 2000, and if you still have one, you have some bruises from the days of iTools. Now while it's only that part of the world which is extremely geeky, you're actually telling them that you were an Apple user on or before July 9, 2008. It used to be that if your email addressed ended in you were telling the world that you are an Apple user.
Nothing before iCloud truly worked, but MobileMe was the one that saw Steve Jobs exploding inside Apple. It isn't a surprise that Apple would rather you thought of its successful iCloud service more than you did its quite disastrous predecessors, including MobileMe. They may date all the way back to iTools and the iBook SE, but if you've got one of those addresses, you're probably hanging on to it no matter what Apple does. Apple would rather you forgot Mac.com or me.comĪpple is steadily removing even references to the old and slightly less old addresses from its support documents.