The post by shoeluvr13 at this link provides additional detail about the account recovery process: iCloud account recovery with new phone nu… - Apple Community You should consider making sure you have multiple trusted devices and telephone numbers (ask a friend or a relative)., Here are the steps on how to create an iCloud email: Go to your settings app, and scroll down to where it says "Mail". Click on it. While in "Mail" you can click on a tab called "Accounts". Click on it. Click on the "Add Account" button. Click on "iCloud" at the top. Click "Create a new Apple ID" if you don't have one, or login with your current Apple ID. Go to the Mail app on your Apple , Turning on iCloud For Messages stores messages in iCloud and syncs them to other devices, but there is no app or method on the iCloud website to view them there., On an Apple device, go into your iCloud account settings and simply enable “mail” to add iCloud email to the default mail app. Or you can use an web browser on any device to login to www.iCloud.com with your AppleID and read email there., Not necessarily correct, my original icloud was a @gmail and I changed that to @icloud for continuity. That said, I have icloud on a Win10 pc and Win11 laptop; password syncing stopped working between my 3 devices (iPhone). Uninstalled, rebooted, and reinstalled was unable to enable Passwords and Keychain. Sometimes the icloud app would simply open as an endless logging in loop. I closed the , My iCloud account works perfectly on my Mac and iPhone mail apps, but has suddenly stepped syncing on Outlook, bother on iPhone and PC. Outlook on my Mac works fine. I'm hoping this happened with the last Outlook update and will be remedied with the next one. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be great..