Calling Apple to recover will be beneficial as well, especially if the recovery email doesn't work or you can't remember all of the answers to the security questions. An Apple customer rep can reset the account if you know the answer to only security uestion. I had to have help recently for this reason
Donna > On Jun 23, 2014, at 12:40 AM, Grant Hardy <grantha...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Joseph is correct. Go to http://iforgot.apple.com and follow the > instructions. You will not be able to use the same Email address to register > multiple Apple IDs. Personally, I would advocate trying to get back into the > old account rather than abandoning it. If worst comes to worst, a different > Email address will need to be used to create a new account. > > Grant > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Alan Lemly > Sent: June 22, 2014 7:53 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Recovering Lost Apple ID Password Versus Setting Up New Apple ID > > I'm trying to help someone who has forgotten their Apple ID password for an > account that has never been used. I'm thinking they should just start fresh > with a new Apple ID account but I'm wondering what will happen if they do > that and use the same email address as the user name as was previously used > on the account with the forgotten password. I'm pretty sure a new account > will be kicked out if the email address is identical. > > Does anyone have experience with requesting a forgotten password on an Apple > ID? Is this done over the phone or through a web form? Any suggestions on the > easiest way to get this resolved will be greatly appreciated. > > Alan Lemly > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
