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To change the iCloud ID you have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password for the old ID when prompted to turn off Find My iDevice, then sign back in with the ID you wish to use. When you do this you may find that the password for your old ID isn't accepted. If this should happen, and if your old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, you need to temporarily recreate your old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice on your device, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

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I had an email that was the primary email for my iCloud account, the email service discontinued in January so prior to that I created an email account using GMAIL and changed my apple id over to it. All was going well till 2 days ago when my IPAD started asking for the password for my iCloud account ... and it was showing the old email ID .... It would not take the pwd for the current icloud id and it would not take the pwd for the old one.

So I found this article and decided to try it, however i didnt get too far. I logged into https://appleid.apple.com/account/home with my current apple ID and went to manage my ID and changed the primary email to the old email.... it then wants to verify the old email id and sends a verification email to the non-existant email account. I still saved and then went to the IPAD and tried stopping 'Find my IPAD' and was prompted for the pwd ... and shows the old id ... so I enter the current pwd as mentioned and it wont take it. So I am stuck

I cannot verify the change of account name and primary email address back to old email since the email id no longer exists, and i am stuck with messages on the ipad wanting me to login to old named icloud id ... and cannot delete it.

Any ideas?

Please note, I have other apple devices (IPhone......) that do not have this problem and are using the current icloud ID based on my gmail.

All devices, including the ipad that seems to be stuck with the old icloud account name update with itunes and I can even purchase apps etc on this IPAD. So it is only the iCloud id that is the problem

If you are being prompted to verify the old email address when you try to add it back to your current ID, that's an indication that your current ID was never previously associated with the old email address. If your current ID is an entirely new ID rather than a revised version of the old ID this process won't work. If that's the case, you'll have to contact the Apple account security team for your country and ask for assistance resetting the password for the old ID so you can provide it when prompted: Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security.