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.
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.
"He told me that my wife was out of luck."
> Women have to change their names with marriage and divorce.
Good to know.
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:
I signed up with a nickname email when I was younger. For example teenager@mac.com. You can later make an alias like John@mac.com. But every time you sign into iCloud, or write a new email on your phone, it's gonna default to teenager@mac.com.
It is a really bad issue for people that use apple's mac email exclusively.
And I can sympathize with the article. If you're divorced, and you change your name, you have to sign into iCloud with your ex husbands name every time you sign in or send a default email. You can't change it.
Go into Settings/iCloud/Advanced/Mail
You can then pick what email to send from and it lets you pick the default email address to use. Click Done and it's switched.
The support article I linked to is misleading if you can't modify the Apple ID login if you use a .mac/.me/.icloud email address and would definitely be a bad hassle, Apple should allow the user login to be changed.
NOTE: The ID shows up in the "ID" field next to password and I cannot change it by clicking. Why the hell would you design a UX like this Apple. Huge fail.