How to change iCloud email address?

Matt's way worked for me. I started a new email address and I had already changed my apple ID to the new email address but when I went to settings in my phone it wouldn't let me change the email for iCloud so I deleted the account and when I went back into settings and then iCloud it showed my new email address and I just had to enter my password, took all of 5 seconds

I think I have a similar problem and wonder if anyone can help me. I have a @mac.com and a @me.com email address. It has the name of my former husband. I want that name gone, all I want to change is the name@me.com I do not understand why I cannot do this. The Apple website states anyone with @mac.com or @me.com cannot change.

This email address is also my apple id. I just want to change the name part of my apple id. The guy at the Apple store said I would have to delete the entire account and lose any music or books that I bought.

when i went into it and hit delete account it told me

if you delete your account, all documents stored in icloud will be deleted from this iphone

if i delete the account will all my stuff go with it cuz i didnt get the option to keep the rest on the device

The data will only be deleted on your iPhone but you can downloaded again from iCloud. It does not delete data in iCloud a I don't think you can delete your account permanently. The delete part only refers to your iPhone data. I have seen this message and you can either delete or keep the data. Keep in mind, the message just refers to the data on your phone.

toasted my old iCloud account (like one of the people suggested) and got just about everything up and recovered except my Contacts don't show anywhere... I have a new gmail account and it's showing up but my Contacts from that email address aren' t being synced... suggestions???

yayyyy did it on my own, my mac had icloud under old apple id account after much time wasting I said I'm just gonna log out and delete whatever it tells me to and sign back in under my correct icloud login and it bloody worked

Nope, not fixed with the new ios. Checked with CS, it is simply not possible to change me or icloud addressed once it is associated with your Apple ID.

Their "solution." Change the primary email address--uh, nope. Change to a new Apple ID--uh, nope.

Have as many people as possible ask for this to be a changeable/editable setting. Uh-yup.

Please do so!

Unresolved issue for over 2 years and many versions of the OS.

I changed my email address from one carrier to another and thought I had changed it everywhere BUT just recently found out it was not changed on my iCloud account!

Maybe, because, I had made the change everywhere else it worked? (iTunes, iPad, iPhone). This is what I did......

I have no clue what I am doing so I uploaded all my pics that were on my iPhone to another device to be "safe" and then went to settings then icloud and closed my eyes and pushed the red button. I decided not to worry about photo stream and said yes to keeping everything else on my iPhone. I agreed to delete and when I came back in to iCloud on my iPhone my new "real" address was there and I entered my password and.....it worked fine.

Perhaps because everything else was in new address prior to deleting, it worked?

Just comments from peanut gallery here! ;o)

I found a solution that trumps everything. I went online signed into my Apple ID at the Apple Store. From here it will take you directly to the email associated with all purchases. Down at the bottom are the ME account, if you have one and your iCloud account. There is an option to delete these accounts and everything associated with them. This is accross the board so it affects your devices and mail. You can then go in and create a new account.

Were you still able to set up an apple email account? I have tried all the emails, and for me, apple is the best. I do not want to lose an apple email account, I just want to change the name on it. Please answer, this is really important to me. The name on my account is my former husband and I really want it off. Apple keeps saying you cannot change a .me account.

crazy_ivan, I tried that, but my troublesome iCloud address was not shown on my apple ID account. I am not going to spend any more time on this. I gather Apple support will not change the misspelt address, so I have created an alias, and will live with it.

Crazy Ivan, I tried what you said. On my screen, I do not see an option to delete the account. Is that because it is a .mac account??? It is crazy that people have to live with misspellings, with former husband's names, nicknames that were put in when they were younger, etc etc. Many people want to make this change, and I do not understand why it cannot be done. (if you have a .me or .mac account from a long time ago)

I have called Apple twice about this.

Some folks do not have the same permissions as you Crazy_Ivan and they will have to call Apple Support. In my case, since I am not a Mac user, my original ID was tied up since I registered for iTunes. I called support and I was told that any Apple alias was tied to the parent email and it was almost impossible to change. I gave up since then. All you have to do is stop using your email address and soon it will be filled with spam and forgotten....

Yes, Esteban, here is the serious problem with us at this forum trying to help each other. We do not have the same permissions. When you think about it, the people at Applecare must have a very hard time as well. One guy told me he still had not figured out how to do something, and he works for Apple.

I finally understood this when I was talking to just a simple website that my recreation and park department has set up. The helper gal would say "now look at your screen, where does it say "add"" But my screen did not say "add". See, I had signed up for the website long before she came to work there, and it had been changed many times. Finally, we figured it out.

So, with something as complex as Apple, well, it is well nigh impossible. I almost feel like I would have to buy a new computer with a new Apple id and a new Apple email. I guess that would be the only way to change it.

It really is crazy.

This worked perfectly for me, thanks Matt! As soon as I deleted it, I went back into icloud and it let me sign in with a new email. I didn't delete the icloud data off my phone, just the account, so when I entered a new email, it asked if I wanted to merge the icloud data with the new account- I said yes and it was good to go!