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davidfromgrand haven

Q: I changed my Apple id on my iPad 3 without signing out on everything. I went back and switched everything but I clouds. Wheni try to sign out it warns me that I will lose everything.

I have an ipad3 ISO 8.1. I changed my apple ID without signing out on anything. afterwards I was able to switch All the programs except iclouds to the new apple ID. It still wants me to sign in with the old ID and old password. When I try that it says my password or ID is wrong. I tried to sign out of iclouds but it warns me that I will lose everything stored there So I stop. I just programmed a new iPad air 2 off the ipad3 and that has the correct apple ID and password. How do I switch the the old ID to the new ID on the iclouds on the iPad 3.

iPad, iOS 8.1.2

Posted on Jan 3, 2015 12:12 PM

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  • by Winston Churchill,

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Jan 3, 2015 12:22 PM in response to davidfromgrand haven
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    Jan 3, 2015 12:22 PM in response to davidfromgrand haven

    Welcome to the Apple community.

     

    If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID and that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.

     

    This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.

     

    However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.

     

    The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device. It may take a short while to remove the account.

     

    You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.

     

    This article provides more information about Activation Lock.

     

    This is answer is provided from my own database of boilerplate responses and the content was last reviewed and tested on: 2014/05/23