Q: iCloud stuck on wrong apple ID

Hello there, i can not change the wrong apple ID in iCloud. I am using iphone 4s. Can you help please? i tried most of the recommendations posted on the forum. The problem is, i can not delete icloud account as it askes the password for the wrong ID to remove find my iphone.

I had to go into my phone settings and then to iCloud. Once there at the bottom of the page is an option to Delete Account. When you do that it says "If you delete your account, all documents and Photo Stream photos stored in the iCloud will be deleted from this phone." If you select delete it will let you type in a new email and password. So if your problem is that it's the same account but the email changed or something, this will just temporarily remove things from your phone until you sign in with the right email and password.

No it does not. It just lets you enter a password for your old email account and apple id that I no longer  have the password for.

That is precisly the Apple Glitch. I now cannot update my apps.

THIS IS THE BIGGEST APPLE GLITCH I HAVE EVER SEEN. SHAME ON THEM FOR NOT FIXING IT.

worked a treat on an iphone 4s and ipad  thanks

Chefdownunder:

Was your old email defunct?

Is there anything new on this? For some reason my iphone 5s is stuck with an icloud apple id that is years old. to turn on icloud, i would need to delete that old account, but can't access it.  in fact, none of the security questions work (my birthdate is apparently incorrect!). very frustrating.

So I am having the same issue, except I do not have access to my old email account, security questions don't work (they're not even questions I'd ever use) and  my iPhone5 continually tries to sync so the phone is totally useless!!!

Please ease tell me there is a fix, before I launch my sodding phone against a wall!!!

I had to go through the same rigmarole as everybody else. In addition, I had to restart my iPad with the old Apple iD in order to turn off "fond my iPad".

A real strange activity. Why is the Apple iD and the email address the same? They ought to be independent so you can change the email address for the same Apple iD seems a little old worldly.

Hi

did you loose anything that was on your phone? Also how do you register for new icloud?

im im having the same problem. But I don't even remember the password for my old Apple ID.

thanks

Gem

im having the same problem. did you loose any of your things on phone like pics etc from photo stream??

thanks

gem

I just tried this and it worked for me. Yah..

The solution seems to be that you have to sign out from iCloud on all but one device, change the Apple iD on that device and then sign back in on all devices. Bad piece of design, if one is using iCloud on multiple devices, they should all synchronise

Try iOS 7: If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud

TS5223 article from the Apple web site

If you have multiple devices you may have to do them all the same at the same time or restore all devices and change back to the old apple id - thus allowing you to change all of them back to the current apple id. If you do not know your apple id that can be a problem.