Create, Delete and Rename iCloud Account

Hello Bava_Jee,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities! I understand from the information you provided that you have several Apple ID related questions; I'd like to help.

To answer your first question, if you ever decide to give your iPhone to another person you would simply sign out of your Apple ID on the iPhone and the iPhone can then be used by someone else.

Your second question is about the free 5 GB of storage Apple provides free. Your account is given 5gb free, not your device. Purchasing another device will not increase the storage. You can however purchase more storage. This article explains more about iCloud pricing:

iCloud storage plans and pricing - Apple Support

With regard to your question about changing your iCloud email address, this article should help:

Change your Apple ID - Apple Support

Specifically, check out the section labeled "When you use your @icloud.com email address"

Hope this helps.

Best Regards.

Bava_Jee,

Thanks for getting back to us. To answer your first question, if you sign out of one iCloud account and into another they both would have the same limited number of photos and data. The new account would not pick up where the other account left off. There is no advantage to having 2 accounts, not to mention, you can only sync to one account a time. 

As far as your question of sharing an Apple ID with your family, this is not recommended. if you have a shared Apple ID, everyone that sings into that Apple ID would have the same data, including the same contacts, messages, etc. A better option would be to set up Family Sharing. You can read more about this here:

Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support

My recommendation is to not worry about multiple ID's. There is no advantage in having multiple ID's, and it can become quite confusing. I recommend you set up one Apple ID (one iCloud account) and then if you want to share apps and other data with your family, set up Family Sharing. If you run out of storage space with the free 5 GB, you can purchase additional storage, and it's very inexpensive:

iCloud storage plans and pricing - Apple Support

Hope this helps. 

Best Regards.

Bava_Jee,

If you have not downloaded anything with either Apple ID, you can simply choose to stop using one or the other. This article provided some additional details:

Understand and control the personal information that you store with Apple - Apple Support

If you have downloaded some content using one of the ID's, that would be the ID you will want to keep because you can't transfer connect between ID's.

There is no real advantage to using an ID with your Gmail account versus and ID with the iCloud account, it just has to be a real email address.

At the same time, you can keep both ID's and continue to use them in the way you originally set them up, there just is no advantage in doing this.

Have a great day.