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How do I change my iCloud account on my iPhone

I know i'm not the only one who ha the same prb out there, and I read a lots of stuff in the different discussions, but I want to make sure, so let me ask:

my wife and I share the same store account, and somehow when I set up our two iPhones, her iCloud account got attached to my Apple ID. Which obviously is not good, since we don't want to share all contacts and appointments, etc...

So, I just what to change her iCloud account from my apple ID to hers. How do I do that?

I am thinking to delete that account (settings->icloud->delete account), but i want to make sure this is not gonna wipe out all her data.

Also, I read somewhere on the Apple website that once you have attached your device to an iCloud account, you have to wait 90 days before to be able to change account. Is that true? Or deleting account will do it?

Thanks for your help.

Laurent

Posted on Oct 20, 2011 10:56 PM

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Rudegar

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Posted on Oct 21, 2011 9:10 AM

I believe that the icloud and old mobileME is natively tied to the appleID and that's the whole point and you will never be able to separate that tie

but I could be wrong

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Apr 22, 2015 9:10 PM in response to gail from maine

Would it delete music as well?

Apr 23, 2015 6:53 PM in response to Rhirhi20022

Would what delete the music as well? What are you asking? Of all the questions asked on this thread, how would I know what you are even referring to? Please either write out a complete question, or better yet, start a brand new thread. This thread is over 3 years old....

Jun 15, 2015 8:42 PM in response to Laurent P.

so I accidentally put my email wrong in my iCloud I wanted to know how I could fix it without deletin anything please help

Jun 16, 2015 6:57 AM in response to Wendii_Medel

You cannot change an iCloud.com or any other Apple Domain email address (@me, @mac).

Sorry,

Dec 19, 2015 8:03 PM in response to Wendii_Medel

I have the same problem: probably due to a typo I have a wrong, nonexistent email address associated with I-Cloud. I want I-Cloud to go away. I don't want I-Cloud at all, anywhere, ever. The phone won't let me delete the wrong I-Cloud address without a password. Of course there is no password because there is no such email address to begin with. Catch-22?

The Web seems full of people commenting on this very problem. Does a solution exist?

Dec 20, 2015 5:18 AM in response to brokenwheel

If you had taken the time to read through this tread at all, you would have seen the solution on page 5, page 6, page 7, and page 8. It is listed step by step - the validity of the email address that you need to remove is irrelevant.

Go to page 8 and find my post with the step by step instructions. Be sure to follow them exactly, and you will be able to sign out the invalid email address from your device.

Best of luck,

Jan 1, 2016 1:46 PM in response to gail from maine

Hi Gail,

I too am in the position whereby I have an obsolete iCloud email address of which I have no access to at all and my current Apple ID is working fine on iTunes on my iPhone 5S.

I have followed your steps as per your latest post to log out of iCloud but the problem is when I go to reset my Apple ID temporarily to the old iCloud email address, there are two options - continue or cancel, there is no Done option. When I press continue it says that it has sent a verification code to the old email address but I can't access it because its obsolete.

Can you help?

Jan 2, 2016 8:50 AM in response to homobearian

Hi homobearian,

OK, some things changed with the release of iOS 8 and 9, and I have a couple of questions before we can figure out your next best step.

1. Is this Old ID that is still signed on to iCloud the previous email address you used for your current Apple ID? Or is it a totally separate Apple account?

2. What iOS are you running on your deivice?

Cheers,

Mar 20, 2016 6:08 PM in response to GZukes

delete account is not available

Mar 20, 2016 9:06 PM in response to Cathy mutuc

The post you are referring to is over 3 years old, and at that time, the button at the bottom of the iCloud screen was Delete Account. It now says Sign Out.

Mar 28, 2016 4:04 AM in response to gail from maine

SO I read most of this and followed the steps on pg 8, dealing with my wife's iphone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. Bell installed a new SIM card for me so I can use it instead so it's now got my number, have been unsuccessful in deleting her iCloud and get it to connect to my new separate newly created iCloud account.

all her reference to her iCloud account is gone, it's linked ok to my email and works, makes calls ok under my number. But when I try to hook it up to my iCloud account it is unable to verify my account, says there is no such thing and when I try appleid or forgot my password it tells me there is no such account.

so I go and create new account it tells me there is already such account in use..........

any suggestions for what's next?

oh and when my wife was talking on her iPhone 6 yesterday and I tried to doa Whatsapp i disconnected her phone call, upon checking her iCloud account both phone numbers are still listed there and have not been able to get rid of that.

thanks for any help

Mar 28, 2016 3:33 PM in response to cmyachtie

What do you mean when you say you are trying to "hook it up" to your iCloud account? Are you going to Settings>iCloud, clicking on Sign On, and typing in your Apple ID and password? Then what happens?

If you go to iCloud.com on a computer, can you sign in your Apple ID and password?

Mar 28, 2016 6:59 PM in response to gail from maine

THat's what I have been unsuccessful at, finally called Apple tech support this aft and am in business now. All good Now.

for some unkNown reason we were unable to have my new Apple ID verified, kept sending me verification codes and after I entered them I was informed that this ID was attached to another email....strange

thanks anyway for yr response

Mar 28, 2016 9:50 PM in response to cmyachtie

OK. Glad you are all set now 🙂

Cheers,

How do I change my iCloud account on my iPhone