What is Apple ID? Is it the same as iCloud account? Is this the account I use to buy apps from the App Store? Common doubts among Apple users that we will solve right away, starting by saying that it’s the same account (with the same password) let’s talk about all this.
One account for all Apple services
All Apple Services, everyone, without exception, depends on an Apple ID. Let’s talk about Apple Music, syncing files with iCloud Drive, buying an app from the App Store, subscribing to Disney+ from the app on our iPhone or iPad, or requesting an appointment at an Apple Store for a repair or a class replacement, it all depends on our Apple ID. Let’s remember, by the way, how we can find the Apple ID on our iPhone, iPad or Mac, even if we don’t know if we have one.
Our Apple ID, or Apple ID, to translate it somehow, is how we have to identify ourselves to the company to access all our services, devices, etc. This account is therefore most important how much we can have. More than the bank? Yes, it is in our Apple ID, in the iCloud Keychain service to be exact, where we will store the access credentials to our bank accounts.
But my Apple ID is a Gmail account…
Like all the accounts we have, this one has a password, which we will talk about soon, but before that there is something extremely important to clarify, and it just has to do with these passwords. Let’s remember how to create an Apple ID from any device, because it is very It is likely that our Apple ID is an email that ends in Gmail or Hotmail, to give some examples, but we must never confuse the two accounts. Let’s clear it up.
On the one hand, there is our email account that we have at Google, Microsoft or wherever we need it. It’s an account. An account with your password. This account, completely independent of the Apple ID, is the one we use to receive communications from Apple. So our Apple ID can be [email protected], yes, but the two accounts are totally independent.
To put a comparison, we could say that we are going to open a gym account. When they ask us for an address, we will give our email, but we will not confuse the gym account (from which we receive communication in our email account) with the email account itself. The same goes for our Apple ID.
How can we protect our Apple ID?
Part of the reason why we might confuse our Apple account with our email account is if we used the same password. Repeating the same password is as risky as repeating a key for all our doors. Someone who loses this key would put their house, car, office, safe, etc. in danger.
So let’s make sure to choose one. long and complex password, but easy to remember, for our Apple ID. A unique password that we will not use in any other service. At the same time, let’s make sure to enable two-factor authentication in our Apple ID. A system with which, in the event that someone manages to obtain the password, a second factor, a six-digit code, prevents access.
So, as a summary. We only have one account at Apple: the Apple ID. We use it for purchases, subscriptions, iCloud, photos and everything else. Yes, it is possible for the account to have an email associated with its own account, but the two are different. And, as we just said, let’s be especially careful with passwords.
