HT204053 How do I delete an iCloud ID that has an old email address and I can't remember the password?
How do I delete and iCloud account that has a former email address and I can't remember the password. All attempts to recover the password have failed!!
Hello there, Gary7023.
The following Knowledge Base article made prove useful for you with the issue you're having:
iOS 7: If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5223
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro D.
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thanks!Welcome to the Apple community.
If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID and that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.
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You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.
This is answer is provided from my own database of boilerplate responses and the content was last reviewed and tested on: 2014/05/23
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I'm using an ipad and all else is ok but not icloud.Welcome to the Apple community Ross.
If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID and that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
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You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.
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