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how to change my apple ID on iphone 5

Hi, can someone advise how do i change my apple id on my iphone 5.

I cannot do any updates on the app store, as it keeps prompt my old id which i am not using.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.4

Posted on Aug 19, 2013 5:32 PM

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Posted on Aug 19, 2013 5:36 PM

All apps are tied to the Apple ID that obtained them. To update you need to use the same Apple ID.

You can change your e-mail address associated with the Apple ID here:

https://appleid.apple.com

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Sep 25, 2013 12:20 PM in response to LauraLum

Hi,


I previously changed my apple id on my old phone because of an e-mail address that is no longer active. That worked well. I bought a new i-phone installed it and made a back from my old phone. My apple ID for i-tunes also changed and it all went well. But now my new I phone 5 keeps asking me to sign in with my old apple id which i ' have the password for, so I signed in and asked them to send me a new password, but it seems because i changed the apple id apple ' recognize the account and is not sending me an e-mail.


The phone is working well and i like it, but i just cant seem to be able to change the apple id that belongs to i-cloud etc for the phone.


Can anybody help in how I can get my new i-phone to ask me to log in with my new apple id? Or how to change the settings i.cloud to ask me to log in with the new apple id?


Thank you in advance

Sep 26, 2013 1:53 AM in response to ckuan

Thanks for your help, but


1) I can't delete the account because you need to sign into the account (with my previous apple id I no longer have and apple apparently doesn't have because they are not sending me a password to my e-mail address a to be able to login to the old account.


2) I changed the my apple-id about a week ago and installed IOS 7

Feb 3, 2014 12:21 AM in response to Chris CA

Hi Chris. Thanks have tried this but the e-mail has been sent to the e-mail adress that belongs to the original id and as I cannot access it I cannot retrieve the e-mail. Long story short the original apple id is a hotmail address that was hacked and had passwords changed etc. @hotmail have not helped therefore the change of apple id to a new address. Can I reset my iphone completely so that it has no history i.e. as if I bought it brand new or sold it to someoen else without the history? I realise that I will lose all info on the phone but to reload that is a lot better than getting a new phone.

Feb 22, 2014 10:15 PM in response to theresawalker

theresawalker wrote:


Hi Chris. Thanks have tried this but the e-mail has been sent to the e-mail adress that belongs to the original id and as I cannot access it I cannot retrieve the e-mail. Long story short the original apple id is a hotmail address that was hacked and had passwords changed etc. @hotmail have not helped therefore the change of apple id to a new address.

Answer the security questions instead of sending an email.

If you can't/don't know what they are, contact Apple support here -> https://getsupport.apple.com/ServiceOptionAction.action

Aug 31, 2014 8:03 PM in response to LauraLum

Chris, Seriously?? Do you not read the posts? We can not sign out or delete the old apple id account because we no longer have the password associated with that account. If we could answer the questions, or had access to the old email account, we would not be on here asking for help. So please stop referring us to something that keeps asking for what we don't have.

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