I changed my appleID and primary email and now I can not access iCloud. ICloud shows my old appleID but I can't change it. How do I get iCloud to work with my updated ID?

Thank you soooooo much! I didn't realise how depressed this had gotten me until I fixed it! Yes!

Thanks again! x

Thank you!!!!! Had to change my daughters AppleID and even though it showed correctly in iTunes/Store (on iPhone), it had the old AppleID for find my iPhone and to reset the phone and the password for it no longer worked. Recreating the same AppleID worked perfectly!

HAve you solved the icloud problem on your iphone ? have the EXACT same problem cant delete the icloud acct it keeps asking for my old apple password whichnit doesnt recognise

this also happened to me after updating to version 7 - i have not upgraded my ipad and icloud has changed to my new address on that device

HELP

I called Apple today, they said to do a hard reset via iTunes! It worked for me!

THankyou i will try this.- but excuse my ignorance how do i do a HARD reset ? Do i have to restore tomfactory settings ?

i Had backed my phone up on itunes before doing the upgrade

I ran into this exact problem after upgrading my iPhone to iOS 7 (whether that caused the whole issue or not, I cannot say), and after finally getting that mess straightened out, today I am having the same headache with my iPad.

However, I have not gone to iOS 7 on this machine yet, and just found that I could change my Apple ID on the iPad by going to 'iCloud' in 'Settings,' and then scrolling down to 'Delete Account' on the bottom right of the screen. Upon clicking that, I got a prompt telling me I'd lose a lot of stuff and then asking me if I wanted to save some of it. I clicked OK, the iPad did some backing up somewhere, and then showed me the refreshed screen with spaces on the top to type my new (correct) ID and its matching password.

Now, iCloud appears to be all updated and working fine on my iPad.

Well it seems i have the same problem - have not upgraded my ipad yet and i have managed to get icloud on my ipad to recognise my new email address - but my iphone is the problem - since upgrading i have not been able to do anything with icloud - it keeps asking for my old password for my old email and i cannot delete account and it will not 'talk' to my ipad

incidently since upgrading it has also lost some contacts - and not allowing me to send photos on whatsapp .... Just things i have discovered so far - NOT IMPRESSED APPLE !

I Am not sure if i should connect to itunes and try to reset - a bit nervous to do anything with it- may have to go into apple shop

I had recently changed both my Apple ID and password for several reasons. iTunes accepted that and even sent me an acknowledgment, but of course, it turns out (as so many of us have learned) that some things on our devices knew nothing about all this. As I mentioned, I had a lot of trouble with iCloud on my iPhone, and that outdated Apple ID and password business.

This is going to sound weird, but I got my iPhone to shape up in iCloud by just letting it present the greyed-out old ID and in the space below, where logic would tell you to type the old password, I typed in my NEW password instead.

To my amazement, it recognized that combination and let me in! Then I just signed out and signed in again with the new ID and pass, and all was well.

Don't normal comment on these, but this suggestion was legit.

Thank you soooo much! This fixed my problem. I did not have to activate the account after creating it with the old email address.

Please help me

ok so i changed my email on my icloud, thats was grand it worked i went on my iphone and it hadnt changed on it, I tryed to go into it and change it on my phone but it wont let me at all. I then tryed to change it back to my old email but its not valid ect. if i go and try and delete my account it wot let me as i need a password and that its telling me its the worng one! please help me😢

Cleaner solution:

- Change Apple ID (from old@me.com to new@me.com)

- Turn offline the device you are having trouble with (later you will understand why)

- Go to www.icloud.com

- Sign in with new@me.com ID

- Go to Find My iPhone

- Select the (offline) device from the "My Devices" drop down menu

- Deactivate Find My iPhone from the device (gray x on the right of the device name on "My Devices" drop down menu)

- Wait for 2 minutes

- Turn online the device

- Go to Settings/iCloud

- Delete account (no request to deactivate Find My iPhone this time!)

- Sign in with new@me.com ID

- Reactivate Find My iPhone

It is crucial to turn offline the device before going to Find My iPhone via www.icloud.com, otherwise the device cannot be removed from Find My iPhone.

Simple and effective.

Cleaner than setting up a new Apple ID with the old@me.com email address (that BTW you will never be able to delete).

Cheers

I tried this and it didn't work for me. It still asks for a password to turn off Find My iPad. But now, when I go to iCloud.com my device is no longer connected and i can't set it up on the device. Any suggestions? I just want to change my old address to my new address in iCloud.

You my friend r a legend 😉 <3

This worked right away! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!