I ran into this myself. It's even more frustrating that they don't warn you about it upfront when closing the account (at least they didn't back when I ran into

I ran into this myself. It's even more frustrating that they don't warn you about it upfront when closing the account (at least they didn't back when I ran into this). I was hoping to start over with a fresh account and instead ended up having to create a new email alias in Outlook to use to create a new Apple account - luckily I used an alias the first time as well so the impact wasn't as bad.