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I've got a question if you don't mind. I'm set on moving to iCloud too for my domain as the only thing I really care about in the G Suite is just personal email via custom domain. Should I change the Apple ID of my account off my custom domain ? I can see a scenario where I can't access my iCloud because I need access to iCloud to verify the email.... I could move the domain records, but this won't be a 5 minute job.

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I can't unfortunately help you with that because the accounts I'm moving both have "custom domain e-mail" set as account. However for verification it usually uses either other iDevice (so popups happen on phone etc.) and there's also option to have printed emergency access card and one can also set emergency contact details to off-icloud e-mails and phone numbers.

I'd say that getting access to account in iCloud was much easier than getting back to locked GMail account.

Thanks for the tip on the emergency access card, I wasn't aware this was a thing! Sounds like I should be fine :)

You don't. You just add the domain and set up the settings. Very fast. My iCloud account uses the icloud.com domain, and I haven't changed that. I did not need to migrate data, so I don't know anything about that.

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