Greetings my dear sifus, after abandoning Apple for quite a number of years (Last phone was iP5), I decided to touch up my Apple ID for iP12

So I used my ID, for example, "ak101ss" reset my password, got a recovery email at "ak101ss@mail.com" and changed my password.

After changing my password and logging in again, it says




Then I insert my email as above and attempted it, it says like this pulak;




So I attempted to login with "ak101ss@mail.com" and there's another account pulak, which I had to reset the password to (which came to the same email address again) and it managed to login with all my old details and credentials.


So my question is, is my account duplicated? Or is it two separate accounts (ak101ss and ak101ss@mail.com)? Any chance to merge them?

This post has been edited by ak101ss: Oct 12 2020, 01:14 PM

My understanding is almost all Apple ID are email addresses now. Since you had a ID that wasnt email address before, Apple made you change the ID to a email address.

Should all be one account now, not duplicate, not separate.

If still not sure, maybe check Apple's support website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201356

Understood, thanks for your input. Issue solved. Topic closed.