90 Macworld • January 2022HELP DESK
items synced via iCloud, figure out
which you want, as it will vary by
person, device, and service.- Create a new Apple ID by following
prompts in any of those locations
while logged out. - Log in to that new Apple ID for each
person on each of their devices. - Go back to Family Sharing and
invite each of the new Apple IDs you
created to join the Family Sharing
group.
Now, you can forward email from
your main Apple ID account for
those iCloud accounts that you can’t
transfer to the new iCloud addresses
for people you just made.
Take this as the example. Let’s
say one of your kids’
names is Jesse
Smythe, and you
had jessesmythe@
icloud.com
registered as an
alias with your
Apple ID account.
Their new account
is jessie_bessie@
icloud.com. iCloud
lets you forward
email via rules
directly at icloud.
com, so you don’t
have to keep a Mail
app running on a Mac to make this
happen.- Log in to iCloud.com with your
main Apple ID. - Switch to the Mail app, click the
gear icon in the lower-left corner and
select Preferences. - Click the Rules tab.
- Click Add a Rule.
- Using pop-up menus and fields,
create a rule that reads, in effect,
‘If a message, is addressed to,
jessesmythe@icloud, Then, Forward
to, [email protected]’ and
click Done. - Repeat Step 5 for any additional
associated iCloud addresses and
aliases.
A forwarding rule lets you keep old iCloud aliases in use
even as you create a new Apple ID for people who formerly
shared your account.