Apple's iCloud name change policy is totally sexist

https://medium.com/@nickgrosvenor/apple-s-icloud-name-change-policy-is-totally-sexist-5a8326696a22

by barlescabbage • 11 years ago

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thaumasiotes• 11 years ago

Apple's iCloud name change policy is totally sexist
Women have to change their names with marriage and divorce.

Good to know.

Glyptodon• 11 years ago

From the headline I assumed it would be about how a man couldn't change his name when he got married when his wife could or something like that, but I guess I'm already living in the future.

barlescabbage2• 11 years ago

Well that's a bigger conversation.

huxley3• 11 years ago

Conversation?

The linked article is an incoherent rant by a man who is upset because he thinks he can't have his wife's iCloud login changed, while cynically trying to frame it as a case of sexism.

Apple provides up to 3 aliases per iCloud account that can be changed at anytime and it's not difficult at all to use them as the primary email addresses. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks like you can even change the Apple ID yourself after logging out your devices:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667

RexRollman• 11 years ago

"None of them understood or could fix this issue. They were all men."

I would need to hear a recording of the conversation to believe that no one "understood" the issue but I do believe her when she says they couldn't fix it.

"Women have to change their names with marriage and divorce."

They don't have to but they almost always do.

huxley3• 11 years ago

He said, not she. It is a guy complaining his wife can't change her user id.

"He told me that my wife was out of luck."

KiDD• 11 years ago

Quite the loud complainer... This can be setup rather easily. After setting up an iCloud alias email you can go into Settings > iCloud > Mail (At the bottom under advanced) then change the email for the iCloud account to the alias. You can then just disable the other email address.

Now you do not need to select the alias email every time you send and email it will default to the new alias you have selected.

Apple's iCloud name change policy is totally sexist

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