How can I change the iCloud apple id that is currently in my iPhone?

My sisters and I currently share one iTunes account so that we can share all of the apps and songs that we purchase between our respective ipods/iphones. However, as a result of iCloud, several problems have arisen from this setup: namesly that my younger sister's iPod recieves all of the photos from my photo stream and all of the iMessages from my iPhone. I have been told that it is possible to set up a seperate iTunes account to use only with iCloud, while maintaining another shared iTunes account for the iTunes store. However, when i attempt to change the account currently entered as my iCloud account, my phone will not let me. Does anyone know how I could accomplish that? Or have any other suggestions about how to correct the overall problem? Thanks!

Welcome to the Apple community.
iCloud is a separate account to iTunes, you can change your iCloud account and still keep the iTunes account you are using now. To change your iCloud account, you need to delete it from settings> iCloud, scroll down and hit the delete account button at the bottom.
You can now create a new account in the iCloud settings.

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http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3988?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/21962709#21962709
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Please explain a little more, do you mean it's wrong or that you have 2 accounts.

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