Migrate from old to new iCloud account

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Migrate from old to new iCloud account

I signed up for Apple One and have 2TB of storage on my new account. I want to migrate from an old iCloud ID with around 35GBs worth of data (6.4GBs of photos and the rest are documents/audio files/misc). How do I transfer all my content from one account to a new account?

One method I thought was to download everything locally on my Mac or external drive, sign out of the old iCloud account, sign in with the new iCloud account, and then everything sync over.

Is this the best way to migrate accounts or is there a more efficient way?

Posted on Apr 28, 2021 12:59 PM

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Corrie84

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Apr 29, 2021 1:58 PM in response to jpalaci2210

Hello jpalaci2210,

Thanks for posting in Apple Support Communities!

We understand that you’re looking to migrate iCloud content from one Apple ID to another. We’d like to help.

Before removing any content or signing out of your Apple ID in system preferences, it would be recommended to Back up your Mac with Time Machine.

To complete the content migration between the two Apple ID’s, you can download the content locally, sign out of the current Apple ID, sign in with the new Apple ID, and then merge the content. You can also Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud.

Have a great day.

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