How am I goin to delete my old apple Id account? I created new account and I wanted to delete my old account and use the new one. Every time I tried to updates all,the applications the old account is popping up and I can't access it.

As part of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules which are coming in this month in the United Kingdom I want Apple to delete (not disable) my user ID and all info they hold against me.

How do i go about this so that Apple comply with my request?

What happens if I disable my account? Do I still lose the apps associated with it? I am getting lots of junk email and spam to my “old” ID, and a message on my iPhone about a virus on my browser. I understand the issue with apps, but am worried about my ID being compromised. And, I hate the original ID name!

That particular scam is locking my browser, safari on my phone. I have to close the app and reopen it. Then after a minute the same warning pops up. I really like safari and don’t want to change browsers.

As said, its very unlikely it has anything to do with your Apple ID.

What exactly is happening that locks the browser?

Can you not close the popup once it appears?

Can you clear website data and cache as suggested above?

I cleared the cache and still got the pop up. This pop up has only one option, ok. The back arrows don’t work once it comes up. The only think that works is closing that screen and going back to safari start page. So far, it’s only happening on my phone. My laptop is good and so is my iPad. I’ll figure out. Thanks for the suggest.

My old Apple ID keeps popping up. Very annoying to see this. Changed email service providers years ago so old email/Apple ID should be able to be deleted, BUT NO. Also password to old apple ID account forgotten years ago. Apple have been contacted but NO JOY YET. .
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And if you bothered to read the thread you posted to, you’d know that now you can request it be deleted. That will also delete everything you’ve ever purchased with it and any other data associated with it.

Instead you rant and give everyone the finger instead of just reading the solution posted just a page back in the thread. Do you always go around flipping off everyone?

So when my internet service provider goes out of business, and my (email address) apple id no longer exists, you are saying "**** you" go re-buy everything?? That is insane.

I'm in the music business.... you have no idea how copyright law works - or any clue about intelectual property.... both are transfered ( usually for a fee ) between organizations and individuals daily. It is totally legal for an individual who has purchased the "rights" to music or software, to retain ownership of those "rights" - you need to create a way for an individual user to merge their "rights" into one or many accounts - owned by them. ( or refund them when you delete their "rights" )

I have the same issue. However, the apple ID is so old it's only a Username, not an email address. When I go to try to unlock the account I'm not sure what email address is associated and when I try the security questions option there are 3 possible Birthday's, but none are correct. I just want the **** pop up to stop coming up on my new iPhone Xs. I've already downloaded all associated music/apps under my current Apple ID.

Just tell me how to stop the pop up on my new phone . . .

I have a lot of apps. How do I know which ones were bought under a older ID so I can delete them. My old ID's were tied to email accounts that no longer exist. There is no way I can get password reset for them. I agree with the previous comment that this is a problem Apple could fix. If I have to re-buy the apps anyway and deleting the old account takes away those apps bought with that ID then what's the difference? At lease let me delete that old ID so it does not keep popping up. That is really annoying.

Really now. A problem of your own making. Get real, Idris. How one earth would a user know to do this? Where are the instructions that say to do this? The problem is that Apple won't fix a problem that your own making.

I have the same very aggravating problem. I cannot update settings because of an old iCloud/apple id. I never wanted iCloud and never actively used it. I do not have the old password associated with the old id and so I can’t get in to do anything, especially change it. This is totally unacceptable from apple considering the many thousands of $ I’ve spent on these devices. What am I supposed to do? I have a credit balance in my itunes that i’ll probably lose if I delete the icloud account because it’s all hooked under one id. Smh!

First, you should know, neither apple nor icloud recognize this old id. So NO password works with it. And NO ONE at Apple can figure this out. I don’t have a ‘mess’ of accounts. And I am not the only one to have this issue. Second, your response is not helpful at all. You are coming across as very angry and dismissive. Thanks anyway.

Actually no it is not. My initial Apple ID was 1 word and then Apple FORCED everyone to create a new Apple ID using an email address. I even opened a support ticket at the time because I lost a lot of purchases and they said the purchases do not transfer for obvious reasons. So rather than be condescending please know what you are talking about or just don’t post.

The problem is now whenever I do a reimagine or I get a new phone, it sees the old Apple ID, but when I try to Reset the login it says the associated info is incorrect. I think I finally have removed all the associated apps with that id but it would be nice just to delete it outright.

Apple never required anyone to make a new AppleID when they transitioned to only emails as primary ID. My AppleID dates back 20 or so years now, and originally was just my name. When the required move to emails came about, all one had to do was edit their existing AppleID and change the name or word to a valid and verifiable email address.

I have only ever had a single AppleID, right from their very pre-cursor free developers account ID to now.