how to change iCloud account on iPhone, without deleting data on iPhone

Im having this same problem!

I Have the same problem...only thing diferent is that I typed wrong the icloud email login... now i cannot delete it because this email doesn't exist....

What if I can't remember the password to the iCloud on my phone?

4. Now you can write your ordinary password on iCloud in your iPhone, using your old apple-ID.

(Settings > iCloud)..................................iv tried by using my new and old password here but it didnt work.plz anyone help me..........

Same issue, need help. about to smash phone.

Got it to work. turn off all the apps below the icloud account and then delete the account.

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Same thing here today, 02-01-14. Thanks for the help!

Thank you, thank you for this! Finally got it figured out!!

I purchased Iphone 5 but old Icloud ID can not be removed while phone is on and working, I asked the person but he also dont know the passowrd, tried alot one click on Check Email in Cloud Tab it routes to my Icloud but not allow to remove..... please tell me some way to resolve this issue

My problem is a little different but kind of the same. When my daughter set up her iPhone she used her friends Apple ID. Now they are not friends (girl drama) and the ex friend has changed the password. She will not give the password to my daughter so she can reset her phone and put in her own Apple ID. Is there a way around this? Apple tech support couldn't help. Thanks.

I know this is an old post, but ive just created a username on this support site to post this. I have literally just deleted my icloud account because I had changed my email and password for the apple id, I can promise you my heart nearly sunk at the thought of loosing everything because it kept asking for a password for an apple id I dont use anymore. Anyway, all is fine. Swipe all the green buttons white in the icloud section it will ask on each to keep click that, then brave it and click delete icloud account. Then the set up page will come up like new, put in your current id and password and it will ask to merge. One by one the white buttons go green and give it some time depending on how much data you have stored and it will all be back there! Hope this helps anyone who reads this and was searching on loads of different sites to find out. 🙂

I can't do this because I don't know my old password.

i have the same problem

i have a iphone 4s. for 2 years now ... it was new when i bought it.

i never use icloud. but i set a acount and a password.

now i have ios 8.0.2.

my phone ask me now every 5 minutes the password for my icloud : appleID with ......@me.com

I dont remember anything:

I dont have apple support in my country.

please help me. what can i do now ??

i never use the icloud ... shoud i do a general reset ? ? will delete the icloud account ?

Had this problem for about a year on my $400 device after the update. The battery used to last over a week (seldom used) but INSTANTLY after the update, the battery is dead within a day (of NOT being used at all), so now it's this huge burden to keep plugged in CONSTATNTLY.

I have googled and searched for a solution to be able to use this junk I paid a fortune for to no avail. I have been searching for a year with no luck.

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When I try to do this it says that it can't use the old email address that I am entering! It says that it is either already used or a few other different things but either way when I go to try and edit my current apple id by trying to change my new apple id email to my old apple id email like everyone is saying to do it won't except my old apple id email when I try to hit save... I have tried everything! I just updated my iphone 4 to ios 7 and just want to delete my old icloud account so that I can save my new icloud account but when I go to settings then icloud it brings up the old icloud account. When I hit delete account at the bottom it asks for the old icloud account password which I do not know. That email hasn't been used in forever so I don't know the password to even get into the email! So Im stuck! Without that old icloud account password it won't let me delete that old account so that I can save my NEW apple ID as my New icloud ID as well.. Please someone help me! Im ready to scream!!:)

The only data that did not get re-synced, nor retained, were the credit cards that I had setup in Apple Pay.

I had to enter them all again but that only to about 10 minutes to do.