When creating an iCloud account, you can use any email-based Apple ID or your existing iCloud account.
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Bloggers became concerned when it became apparent that a user's Apple ID was helping to generate the recommendations.
Gaping security holes are a pretty terrifying thing, especially when they involve something as sensitive as your Apple ID.
From iTunes on your computer, open the Store menu, select "Turn on iTunes Match, " enter your Apple ID and password and click Subscribe.
This number not your Apple user ID or email address represents you as far as Siri's back-end voice analysis system is concerned.
If devices associated with the Apple ID are stolen, the owner can execute a remote wipe to prevent their data from falling into the wrong hands.
Once you set up iCloud using your Apple ID, any content that you buy from the iTunes Store will show up on other devices without any syncing.
By default, it works with your Apple ID e-mail address, but you can add as many as you'd like from the settings application after verifying that you do indeed own the account.
Turns out you can reset any Apple ID password with nothing more than a person's email address and date of birth -- two pieces of information that are pretty easy to come across.
If you had a MobileMe account that you did not move to iCloud, you can use that Apple ID to sign up for a new iCloud account (none of your previous MobileMe data will be present).
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Inside its own retail stores Apple has changed the POS experience from visiting a cash register to simply having your credit card swiped on an i-device and the receipt emailed to you via your Apple ID.
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After all, in order to activate an iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you need to have an Apple ID and that means you need a credit card even if you only want to redeem an iTunes gift card.
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Apple hasn't been as direct about what's going on, but Wired believes there's been a 24-hour hold on phone-based Apple ID password resets while the company marshals its resources and decides how much extra strictness is required.
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The default setting allows you to install apps from the Mac App Store and apps from developers that have a unique Developer ID from Apple.
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To learn more from Apple, you have to have a developer ID.
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Apple recently introduced a tool that lets developers anonymously track users, phasing out use of the old device ID that some privacy advocates said could be coupled with enough data to identify people.
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