iCloud User Guide
- Welcome
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- Sign in and use iCloud.com
- Keynote
- Numbers
- Pages
- Use iCloud on your Windows computer
- Get more help with iCloud

Create a primary email address for iCloud Mail
You must create a primary iCloud email address on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac before you can use iCloud Mail. For an overview of what you can do with Mail and iCloud, see Send and receive iCloud Mail on all of your devices and keep Mail settings up to date.
If you already have an @icloud.com (or an @me.com or @mac.com) email address, see Set up iCloud for Mail on all your devices.
Create a primary iCloud Mail address on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud.
Turn on iCloud Mail (or Mail), then follow the onscreen instructions to create an iCloud Mail address.
If you don’t see onscreen instructions after turning on iCloud Mail on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you already have a primary iCloud email address.
Create a primary iCloud Mail address on your Mac
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
> System Preferences, click Apple ID, then click iCloud.
Select Mail, then follow the onscreen instructions to create an iCloud Mail address.
If you don’t see onscreen instructions after turning on iCloud on your Mac, you already have a primary iCloud Mail email address.
After you set up your @icloud.com email address, you can use it to sign in to iCloud.com and your devices in addition to your Apple ID. See Use your Apple ID with iCloud.