Q: Can I change my iCloud email in iOS 7?

This does not work if 'Find My Phone' is on. What now?

Amazingly, after lots of different attempts, this worked! Thanks Ironboots!

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I I'm having this problem when changing primary email to my old email. "this email is not available for use as an Apple ID. You may already have apple I'd associated with this address" what should I do in this case? Does it mean I can't bypass my icloud to delete the old account?

It means that you didn't change your existing Apple ID from that old ID, it means the Apple ID you are using now was a newly created one (and therefore, the old one still exists).

Go to Manage your Apple ID: https://appleid.apple.com/ and click on Reset your password. When it asks for the Apple ID you want to reset the password for, type in the one that you are getting the "not available" error for, and answer the security questions so you can change the password. If you don't remember the Security Questions, contact Apple Support to get them reset:

Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security

Once you have reset your password on the old ID, you will be able to use it to turn off Find My iPhone for that ID.

Cheers,

GB

I have this issue, but I am unable to delete my iCloud account because I have to turn off Find My Phone, which required my password.

What can I do to fix this?

Is the iCloud name that you need to delete a different Apple ID than yours, or is it the old version of the Apple ID you are currently using (i.e., did you simply change that old ID to a new email address?). Or, perhaps, is it an Apple ID that is not yours at all, but possibly the previous owner's Apple ID.

You really have not explained what situation, exactly, that you are facing, so we cannot provide you with the correct response without knowing which one it is....

Cheers,

GB

thank you! this worked for me! finally. after fiddling around for 2h!

This helped! But yes- I had to put in my current password when it was asking for the old password tied to the old account. And after the Facetime step! Thank you - it took two months and X amount of people, including Apple before I managed to sort this issue out!!! :-D

You are a freaking genius, and thank you so much! I know this comes almost 2 years later, but this fix worked for me, actually for my wife who had forgotten the password to the email address that iCloud was synced to. I was going bonkers with this. Thank you so, so much for taking the time to help us!

The link in this post fixed it for me, I spent hours trying to work it out and this did it in 2 minutes flat!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!