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| Started by | bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> |
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| First post | 2019-01-18 22:54 +0000 |
| Last post | 2019-01-20 04:29 +0000 |
| Articles | 2 on this page of 22 — 10 participants |
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Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-18 22:54 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-18 15:05 -0800
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-18 18:41 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-18 15:45 -0800
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-19 13:33 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-19 13:58 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bje@ripco.com - 2019-01-20 13:01 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-20 15:03 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-20 23:57 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-20 18:59 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-21 02:17 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-20 21:29 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-19 15:37 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-18 18:42 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-19 00:26 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-18 19:47 -0500
OT: Preserving Flash sites? (was Re: Relationship between Apple identities...) Supermarine Spitfire <spitfire@spitfireflyinghigh.com> - 2019-01-19 10:04 +0000
Re: OT: Preserving Flash sites? (was Re: Relationship between Apple identities...) Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-19 05:20 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2019-01-19 17:17 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-19 12:21 -0500
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-19 19:39 +0000
Re: Relationship between Apple identities... Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-20 04:29 +0000
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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
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| Date | 2019-01-19 19:39 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <gahcntFbo89U3@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #120787 |
On 2019-01-19, bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote: > Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >> In message <q1tles$oum$1@news.albasani.net> bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote: >>> Can somebody explain the relationship between the various identities >>> that modern Apple devices inflict on users? >> >> Not a good start. >> >>> There's AppleID, Itunes account, Appstore account and iCloud account >>> at least, maybe more that Luddites like me don't know about. >> >> There is a single AppleID. You can use it for email, app purchase, music >> and movie purchases, logging in to your developer account, accessing >> icloud.com, finding your phone or other devices, tracking you health >> data, and many other things. Or just one of those things. >> >>> How (if at all) are they related? Once created at Apple's request, how >>> can they be deleted? >> >> It are not created at Apple's request. > > Perhaps it was an invitation mistaken for a request.... > >> And there is a method for >> deleting an AppleID, but since I've never had any inclination to do so, >> I cannot give you details. I'm sure a second or three with a willing >> search engine will reveal all. >> > > Alas, no enlightenment has come of this thunderstorm 8-) Please understand > it's not my account. I'm trying to help someone who bought an iPhone and > somehow ended up with at least two, possibly three, distinct logins and > passwords associated with the iPhone, an iMac and an email address > associated with iCloud. It started, I think, following a system restore at > the Genius Bar after the iMac's hard drive failed. > > Predating all this nonsense there was only an iMac login and a Yahoo email > account. The core of the problem is that mail received via Yahoo and > replied to by iPhone seems to come from an account associated with iCloud. > > I suppose one could simply go back to the Genius bar, but I was hopeful > that a general overview might be found or referred to in this group. > The issue is confusing to me as a long-time computer user, the victim of > the "identity crisis" is less savvy than I am. You can't save people from themselves. Well, you can try. But their selves always return to throw a wrench in things. : ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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| From | Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> |
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| Date | 2019-01-20 04:29 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <slrnq47u8d.30pi.g.kreme@Snow.local> |
| In reply to | #120801 |
In message <gahcntFbo89U3@mid.individual.net> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote: > On 2019-01-19, bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote: >> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: >>> In message <q1tles$oum$1@news.albasani.net> bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote: >>>> Can somebody explain the relationship between the various identities >>>> that modern Apple devices inflict on users? >>> >>> Not a good start. >>> >>>> There's AppleID, Itunes account, Appstore account and iCloud account >>>> at least, maybe more that Luddites like me don't know about. >>> >>> There is a single AppleID. You can use it for email, app purchase, music >>> and movie purchases, logging in to your developer account, accessing >>> icloud.com, finding your phone or other devices, tracking you health >>> data, and many other things. Or just one of those things. >>> >>>> How (if at all) are they related? Once created at Apple's request, how >>>> can they be deleted? >>> >>> It are not created at Apple's request. >> >> Perhaps it was an invitation mistaken for a request.... >> >>> And there is a method for >>> deleting an AppleID, but since I've never had any inclination to do so, >>> I cannot give you details. I'm sure a second or three with a willing >>> search engine will reveal all. >>> >> >> Alas, no enlightenment has come of this thunderstorm 8-) Please understand >> it's not my account. I'm trying to help someone who bought an iPhone and >> somehow ended up with at least two, possibly three, distinct logins and >> passwords associated with the iPhone, an iMac and an email address >> associated with iCloud. It started, I think, following a system restore at >> the Genius Bar after the iMac's hard drive failed. >> >> Predating all this nonsense there was only an iMac login and a Yahoo email >> account. The core of the problem is that mail received via Yahoo and >> replied to by iPhone seems to come from an account associated with iCloud. >> >> I suppose one could simply go back to the Genius bar, but I was hopeful >> that a general overview might be found or referred to in this group. >> The issue is confusing to me as a long-time computer user, the victim of >> the "identity crisis" is less savvy than I am. > You can't save people from themselves. Especially someone so utterly out of the loop to be using yahoo services. -- All our loves are first loves
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