How do I correct my iCloud email address?

Chap Harrison wrote:

I've seen some threads that suggest that this can only be corrected by first deleting my current iCloud account. Is there a less drastic solution?

No.

How do you delete the old email address in order to create a new accout correctly.

By deleting the account, creating a new account with the other ID, and migrating your data to the new account.

Before deleting the account, if you have any photos in photo stream that are not in your camera roll or backed up somewhere else save these to your camera roll or you will lose them. To do this, open the photo stream album in the thumbnail view, tap Edit, tap all the photos you want to save, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll.

Once this is done, go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On iPhone. Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom). Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge. This will upload the data to the new account. When you turn Mail to On a new iCloud email address will be created.