Originally Posted by
ipadsinthecity I'm afraid that won't work in my case. From the iMore article:
If the email address associated with your Apple ID is an @me.com, @mac.com, or @iCloud.com address, you can't change your Apple ID. You won't even be able to see the option to change the email address. There is nothing you can do about this. I never used iCloud, me, etc for my email Apple ID. But I did change the email address for it. You may not can, but you can still use Gmail as your default email address. I only use my Apple ID email for Apple stuff. All other email activity is on other addresses.
I don't see why you can't change your email address for your Apple ID. Maybe this will help.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667