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?

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This has been plaguing me for months!!!! I bought a new phone for my wife and we couldn't back up the old one because of this. You are epic!!!!

Thanks enewshan your suggested worked perfectly.

BRILLIANT!!!! This has been so frustrating for me for the last few weeks, and I'm so thankful to finally have this resolved without losing any data!!! Thank you so much!!!

I found this fix: On your iPad go to Settings>Store. Sign out, click Sign in>Use existing account, use your new email you want to use. IT WORKS!!!! Thank God

Hi, I have had this problem for months. Thanks to you it is all sorted within 5 minutes :)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I didn't know what to do, as my old apple ID continued to appear in my ipad. It wouldn't even allow me to open any apps or anything without that window popping up asking me for a password to an ID that no longer exsisted...I did exaclty what you said to do and it worked!!! THANK YOU! You're a rock star! 🙂

Thanks for the enewshan's solution. I created a new AppleID by using my old email account again, then tried to turn off 'Find My iPhone' first, then deleted iCould ID account from iPhone. After done, I reentered my current AppleID for iCould.... :-)

It took months for me to find the solution and path that I posted to get this ID problem fixed on my phone but I think if we could find out the factory default our phones set for the birthday security question all the bought apps might be saved. Apple will not allow going thru all the possible birthdates cuz it locks you out. If anyone figures out what the default date is we can recover our old apple ID and keep our apps.

Acouple additional notes....

First - the recreate the old ID is virtually the only way to get this to work, but there are several issues with different devices onlg the way. But in my case, I was not able to use my old password because it did not meet the new requirements - this caused a whole slew of different issues!

On my iPad and iPhone - I also went to Messages and FaceTime, signed out of the old account and in on the new account.

To delete an iCloud account you FIRST habe to TURN OFF Fine My Phone!

On my iPad that was all I hade to do - it took the old id and the new password just fine, and I was able to delete the iCloud account.

However, on my iPhone that was not the case - it was still telling me that my password was incorrect...So form the Settings/iCloug screen - I tapped the old ID under ACCOUNT

The ild ID is there and greyed out and can not be changed, but the password can! I changed the password HERE to the new password assigned to the old ID and it verified perfictly.

I tried to turn off Find my Phone - and it fsiled again - but being a App Developer - I know sometimes it takes a couple of minutes for everything to sync - I tried it after 2 minutes and it finaly work! I was able to turn off FMP and then Delete the account.

And recreate an iCloud account with the new ID.

Food for thought - If your old account ID is tied to your iCloud account and you have purchased upgrades - I am not sure that those upgrades will be available in the new account. It does not look like iCloud actually changed ID's when you change your Apple ID - it lookes like these are not connected? I say this because I was able to log in with both the old ID and the new ID via the web and the new ID accoutn did not have any data in it untill I linked it to my first device - also I had to actually DELETE my old iCloud account from my devices to be allowed to log in with the new?

Confused yet - well... me too! Looks like Apple did not think this through very well!

Chris

thank you for this information but i have a problem when im trying to creat a new apple id on the same email i used before it says to me the email you entered is already used for another account any solution plz thank you

Hi karwan khald,

If you already have an Apple ID for the email account, why are you trying to create a new one?

Cheers,

GB

Had the same problem with my iPad2. Updated an email address but iCloud kept old one. Tried deleting the iCloud account on the iPad, still didn't work. Decided to just ignore iCloud before it drove me crazy trying to figure out what to do. Purchased an iPad Air, restored backup from iTunes and just for the yucks, I went to iCloud to see if I could update my email address yet, it actually let me this time! I am assuming it was the update that allowed this to happen? Really don't care how it happened, just celebrating the fact that I don't have to see the iCloud prompt anymore!!

If you don't have access to your old email account. I found an easier way. It's here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5322260?answerId=23184216022#23184216022

I've added a few more steps, based on my own experience from iOS8 posting above.

1. Ensure you are logged into existing/new AppleID on ipad device
2. go to https://appleid.apple.com and sign in your current iCloud/Apple ID.
3. Edit it to your old email address then
4. Save the changes.
5. Don't sign out yet!! Don't need to verify new "old" email address.
6. Go back to your iOS device then delete your iCloud account.
7. Once deleted, go back to the Apple ID website and rename it back to your current email address.
8. You have to verify it this time and you will be able to since you have access to that email address.

Hope that helps!

Your method works! Just have to do a new registration with credit card and address etc. Thank you. Even the apple store genius can't solve this

I would just like to say a big THANK YOU to you. I have tried to erase my phone for months and was unable to . My husband is in IT and he couldn't get it either. Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

-Michelle