welcome back everyone my name is joel and today we are going to learn how to create your very
own apple id so i'm going to presume that you don't have an apple id or maybe i'll just assume
that you want to create a brand new apple id for whatever reason maybe you just got a new mac you
got a new iphone your very first iphone your very first ipad when you go through any of the setups
you're gonna need an apple id regardless of what anyone says you're gonna need an apple id
and there's a couple different places of how to create one and there's also
reasons behind how to create one whether you want to use an existing email that you already
have or you can actually create an apple id based off of a brand new email given from
apple that ends in icloud.com so first let's go ahead on a computer if we go to appleid.apple.com
this is apple's website to manage your apple id but notice in the top right it gives us an option
to create an apple id and on this page i could go in and say all right joel failed birthday to zero
1 14 1985. there's my birthday send me a card just kidding well you could but that's my birthday now
underneath there though it has this will be your new apple id because i'm on a computer it requires
an email address for me to create one an existing one i actually don't have the ability to create
an apple id from apple's ecosystem through icloud because it doesn't allow me here i don't know why
i think it used to but it doesn't so if so here i don't have an existing email address
and i want to create one with uh ending in icloud.com but i can't do it from this website
so if i go to system preferences i can go to internet accounts on the left and here i can click
on icloud and this is where i can choose to get an apple id and it will say again my birthdates month
next and notice here i can put in my first name last name but the difference here now that we see
is underneath here get a free icloud email address and the reason i always tell people if you're
starting from scratch and you don't even have an email or maybe you don't want to use an existing
email this is a nice way to create a brand new email with your brand new apple products with
apple being the core uh email account for your whole entire ecosystem
so i'm actually gonna do that i'm gonna say click or get a free icloud email account and notice it
switches to say icloud.com and i can type in whatever i want assuming that it's available
now if i type in my existing one here and type in a password of what i want it to be
uncheck that because i don't want that this one is already taken so it says hey your apple id can be
created because the email address you chose is no longer available because i already actually have
that one so i would have to create a new one and so let's just say i'm going to create one learn
with joel learn with joel at icloud.com i like it alright so i'm going to create a password here
and i'm going to choose next and so now it says all right it let me through the next step and
it wants to associate a telephone number with your apple id for security reasons it's kind
of like a safety net if you ever forgot your password it's going to send you a text message
so that you can recover your password and there's also additional security features
that that are called two-step verification or multi-factor authentication some
ecosystems some companies call them different things but here this allows me to tie a telephone
number to my apple id for security reasons so i'm going to go ahead and put in my cell phone number
and i want to verify it with a text message actually just for fun let's verify it with a
phone call because then we can hear what it sounds like so i'm going to do next
my phone should start ringing and here it is
this is apple calling with your apple id verification code
your code is one two eight two seven eight
once again that's one two eight so that's how that works now they would have texted me that same code
just to verify that it's me as the person creating this account next time they send a code it's going
to be a completely random one so this code it's out there it's already used so now it's
going to have all of the terms and conditions that i can go i'll check the box here and agree
and now it's created that apple id for me so i have a brand new email address that is learn with
joel at icloud.com and it has me signed in here on my system preferences and it shows up right on
my computer as an internet account so now it's a full-fledged email account i can synchronize
contacts with it it has its own calendar it has its own ecosystem in this cloud environment
now the next thing i want to do is i'm going to repeat that whole process of how to create that
apple id but let's do it on an ipad so that you can see the the subtle differences and actually
the similarities between the two so if i go ahead and and have my ipad turned on i'm going to go
into the settings and on the left hand side here i have this option in the top left to do sign in
with sign into your ipad so if i do sign in to ipad notice here it's wanting an existing apple id
and if i didn't have one i would say i don't have an apple id and it gives me the choice to either
create an apple id or forgot apple id if i need to reset my password so i would choose create
apple id and again it's going to ask me for my name my last name my birth date
january 14th 1985. i'll do next and again same kind of concept that we saw on the computer it's
going to prompt us to either put an existing email address in there to create an apple id or now we
have this don't have an email address question mark we can touch that so that we can say yes i
would like to get an icloud email account for my device so if i touch get icloud email it brings me
to the same exact place so this is where i created the learn with joel at icloud.com no i don't want
that and if i touch next it'll probably yell at me like it does here saying hey this email address is
already taken you can't use it so that's how you create an apple id for all of your devices for
your iphone your ipad your mac the whole entire ecosystem i hope you enjoyed watching if you liked
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