Deleting an iCloud account that doesn't exist

Once again. YOU SHOULD NOT need password to delete account. To make changes like turning something off yes you do. So from that point on you will:

Hard reset your phone by pressing two buttons home and power at the same time until apple shows up on the screen.

As soon as phone starts go to settings- icloud and scroll down. Press one button and one button only - Delete account.

If you can't do that, you will have to restore - you better do that cause anybody can. (Enough motivation?)

Looking in Find my Friends worked (running iOS 9) on my boss' boss' iPad.

For some reason I had to check the account being used in Find My Friends (ex. a@email.com), ask my boss' boss to reset his password for that account, then use the password for 'a@email.com' when Find My iPhone prompted him for the password to the other AppleID. The most bizarre thing I've ever seen.

I have also had this problem and none of the suggestions worked but I finally got the old Icloud account off my Ipad with the following actions.

1) Go to setting click on the old Icloud account and then click on the Icloud account that appears on the right of the screen. [it let me do this without a password]

2) Select "Contact Information."

3) I then changed the contact information to my new Icloud account email and Icloud account alias.

4) Somewhere along the way I had to answer security questions so that I could move forward (sorry I'm not exactly sure where]

5) I then restarted the ipad [you may not need to do this but that is what I did]

6) I returned to the old icloud account and scrolled down to the bottom and clicked "sign out"

7) I got the "this will delete data from your Ipad message" [note: it will remove anything in the cloud storage under the old account but not the data on your phone] Click delete

8) It asked a similar question. Click delete

9) Finally it will give you the option to sign-out but suddenly it will ask you for the Password which was the original problem but here is the good part. I simply used the password from my new Icloud account that was put into the contact information for the account and it accepted it.

10) I then clicked on I cloud and signed in with my new Icloud account and it was done.

Try to restart your phone, you should not need to provide your password in order to delete icloud account - delete button is always accessible.

If you erase it will erase everything

I'm having a similar issue right now and I'm about to pull out my hair. I've talked to two Apple support guys, neither of which have helped me AT ALL. They only told me to do what I have already done, so I'm not sure how well they listened to me, but they certainly didn't help me (no offense, Apple support).

I have done the "Erase All" option. When I go through the first steps - choosing language, country, wi-fi network, etc., it gets to a screen where it asks whether you want to restore from icloud, restore from itunes, or set your phone up as a new device. I have tried all three. But I want to restore from iCloud with my current Apple ID, not my old one that apparently doesn't exist anymore (so stop asking for it!).

So.. when I restore from iCloud, it lets me type in my current iCloud Apple ID... great, right?! However, once it gets to the menu (all of my stuff shows up, great again!) and I go into Settings > iCloud. it shows my OLD freakin' Apple ID and it asks for my password (which doesn't work). Why is it defaulting to my old, non-existent Apple ID even though I set it up to restore from my current one?! 😠 Same problem you're having. And yes, it still says the same thing at the bottom - that I can't delete this iCloud account because my iphone is being restored. But I can't figure out what the heck is still downloading - by now I have deleted all my apps, my music is all there and fully downloaded... so it must be my pictures. None of my pictures are showing up in my album even though it says that 652 pictures are downloading (it has been two days and not one picture has 'downloaded'). So if it's my pictures that are the problem, fine, although I'm not sure how to get around that. I have read about 73 other threads related to that issue with no resolution thus far. So basically I'm stuck.

I am tempted to hit the Stop Restore button, but I don't want to lose those 652 pictures that are supposedly "downloading." I don't know if I'll lose them, but I'm too scared to find out.

I just don't know what to do. And the nearest Apple store to me is 150+ miles away 😢

Apple store will not have better access to your backup then you.

If I started restore from backup I would try to make sure nothing stops it.

I would consider getting that old password, may just be enough to resolve everything.

😁Did you by any chance play with ios7?😁

Thankfully, Find My iPhone can help you get it back. But if it looks like that’s not going to happen, new security features in iOS 7 make it harder for anyone who’s not you to use or sell your device. Now turning off Find My iPhone or erasing your device requires your Apple ID and password. Find My iPhone can also continue to display a custom message, even after your device is erased. And your Apple ID and password are required before anyone can reactivate it. Which means your iPhone is still your iPhone. No matter where it is.

I did not... at least I don't think I did.

I have tried to recover the old password, but since my old ID doesn't exist anymore, there apparently is no password. I have tried to "reset" it but it never emails reset instructions to me, nor does it accept the answer to my "Security Question," which is "Enter your birthday."

And I know my birthday!