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Apple ID. How to know ours?


Devices connected by Apple ID

In any service we enjoy today (free or paid), we are identified by a username, email or phone number. Well the gateway to services that the “apple” offers us, is the apple id. How to know ours? Easy.

Apple already offers a wide range of services that are centralized for each user. It may be that with the passage of time or due to the loss of your device for any reason, you have forgotten your ID. Let’s see how to find out and manage all its possibilities.

If we only have one Apple device (an iPhone, which is the most common), perhaps our ID will go unnoticed, but when you have several devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch…), one of the strengths of the Apple Cupertino is the incredible and simple synchronization of its ecosystem, which is powered by iCloud.

The ID, after all, It is nothing more than an email to which we will associate all Apple services and that will identify us as a user in this great ecosystem.

apple ecosystem

All our contacts, calendars, photos, reminders, user preferences, passwords, as well as our App Store applications or subscriptions to Apple Music or Apple TV, are centralized in our ID, so that all our devices identified with our ID they work perfectly in sync via iCloud.

In this way, and above all, thanks to Apple’s efforts in this regard, configuring any new device is fast, comfortable, simple and a relief. It does not involve anything more than following four or five steps until we have our new device configured and working with our preferences in a matter of minutes.

What’s more, Apple recently completely renewed the web where we can access all our content in the cloud and view emails, notes, photos, calendar, reminders, run Apple’s office suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) and search for our devices , from any site and browser.

Hence knowing our ID is essential to have access to all our information and enjoy what Apple offers us.


Macbook asked Apple ID

How to know our Apple ID

Usually when starting an Apple device, it almost forces you to create or use an ID. You can use a device without an ID, but it has some limitations that I don’t recommend to anyone. For example, not being able to access the App Store and download applications or updates.

So, almost certainly, you created one and it should appear to you.

Several IDs can also be used on the same device, but it is not recommended for what we have discussed, the synchronization of contacts, calendar, reminders, messages, etc., and especially purchases, those of the entered ID will appear but not those of the previous one ID. So we’re pretty limited in that aspect and it only makes sense if we share things as a Family.

There are several ways to locate our IDdepending on the device we use.

on the iPhone

  • On your iPhone, go to “Settings”, at the very top.
  • Tap on the section where your photo and name appear.
  • If you’re signed in with your Apple ID, it should appear below your name.

on the mac

  • Just access the “System Preferences”, on the apple icon in the upper left corner of our Desktop, or on the dock icon.
  • Click on the specific Apple ID icon
  • If we have started a session with our ID, it should appear on the left side, under our photo and our name.

in your email

  • As your ID is an email, you have had to receive some email from Apple: an email with the announcement of a new device for sale, a login, an invoice, a subscription or an application purchase. To the email where the email from Apple arrived, that is your ID.


Keyboard with chain and padlock

I can’t find my Apple ID anywhere

Then, Apple makes a page available to us to recover our ID. You must enter your full name and an email address and follow the steps indicated to recover the operation of your account.

Manage our Apple ID

In this, Apple has also made management easier for us recently, with a page to manage all our associated data, email accounts, subscriptions, payments and other details of our ID. From where we can, among other things, see which devices we have associated with our ID or which sites we start with “Sign in with Apple” and establish who our digital representative would be, that is, the person who would have access to all our data when we let’s pass away

It is curious that an option for this has been enabled, since we are accumulating more and more digital material on physical media or clouds, but from a pragmatic perspective, it is better to leave it resolved before something happens, like our data, contacts, photos and memories, can pass on to our loved ones without any hindrance.

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