Gmail apple id to .me?

How do is switch from using my gmail account as my apple id to only having the .me account I made through it? I would just rather have full use over apple's icloud than using multiple servers and accounts.

You can't merge them. But Apple has a solution how to "split" them :
If you used the non @me.com for itunes/apps/ibook purchases and would change this, you then loose access to your purchased stuff. Surely you do not want that happen.
Therefore you can use that "old" ID further in iOS. tap "settings" -> "Appstore" and make sure the "old" ID is there.
To use the "new" @me.com for Mail,Calendar,Contacts, facetime, imessage ( e.g. for all communication ) you can do so by tapping "Settings" -> "icloud" and make sure the whole icloud stuff is using that "new" ID.
So : the "old" for all purchase-contents to keep what you paid for and the other "new" Me.com for all icloud and communication. It works and is hassle free. Just always keep that in mind that these are 2 not related IDs for two not-related kinds of online services.
One for "shopping" and one for icloud.

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HT204053 I setup an apple id using my gmail email address from my iphone and then I decided to change my email to icloud. So I setup an icloud email account. Now I want to change my apple id to my icloud email account, but it wont let me. How can I merg

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I have an Apple ID that uses a gmail address, which i used to create an iCloud email account. However, I cannot seem to replace my gmail Apple ID with the iCloud address. Is it possible to separate the iCloud email from the gmail address, and make it my only Apple ID i.e. can i scrap the gmail ID and only use my iCloud username as my ID?
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I'm only starting a new discussion because everytime someone asks the same question I have, everyone starts providing answers to a DIFFERENT problem.
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I have a longstanding apple ID. I like it; it has worked fine. I have an iPhone 4S. I was setting up iCloud on my son's iPhone 4S, when I noticed that "Notes" was an option for syncing with iCloud. I thought: that's nice, I'll turn that on for all of us, so our Notes can be saved to iCloud.
When I turned Notes on, a popup said that you could only sync Notes if you had a required icloud address, and it prompted me to create one. I thought I was creating one for my son. I added his name before the @icloud.com.
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I went to "Manage my Apple ID" and removed the icloud address. No dice.
I deleted iCloud from the devices and put it back on. No go.
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