How do I change just my iCloud account?

How do I change my iCloud account on my older devices. Please explain step by step as I am not very computer savvy.

To change the iCloud account on a device running:
iOS 6: Go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the new ID. This deletes the account and your iCloud data from your device, but not from iCloud. Provided you are signing back into the same account, your iCloud data will reappear on your device when you sign back in. To avoid losing photo stream photos, save them to your camera roll (if not already there) before deleting the account. To do this, open your my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, then tap Save to Camera Roll.
iOS 7: Go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password when prompted to turn off Find My iDevice, then sign back in with the ID you wish to use. This deletes the account and your iCloud data from your device, but not from iCloud. Provided you are signing back into the same account, your iCloud data will reappear on your device when you sign back in. To avoid losing photo stream photos that are not in your camera roll, save them to your camera roll before deleting the account. To do this, open your my photo stream album, tap Select, tap the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tap Save to Camera Roll.

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You CANNOT change your iCloud email address once it is created and associated to you Apple Id (usually it is another email address). First time you activate iCloud on your device and turn on email setting, you are prompted to create an iCloud email account and after choosing one that is available you are CLEARLY warned that ONCE CREATED YOU iCLOUD EMAIL IT CANNOT BE CHANGED!!!
Fig.1 Warning if desired iCloud email Fig. 2. Warning about creating new iCloud
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You have two choices: a) create an alias for that account after you sign in icloud.com using either your apple id or your new created icloud email account (that's what I did) or b) create a new Apple Id (with all the pain it involves)
I typed an incorrect iCloud email address and was linked to my Apple Id and now I have to live with this forever!?
The workaround was to create an alias, but I have the feeling that something is wrong with my Apple Id
All of us might make a petition to apple to allow us to change the 'main' icloud email address. What if I misspelled it!? How difficult can it be?
I hope this be helpful and answer your question.
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How do i change the primary icloud account which is set on my computer?

how do i change the primary icloud account which is set on my computer?

tsand66 wrote:
I do not have the option to do that as there is no icloud preference pane, there is only a mobile me preference pane.
the ssystem is recent, 10.7.0 or a bit higher.
the computer switched from my wifes address book to my address book becuase it was set up to my iclud account (it was my computer for a short time).
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You need at least 10.7.2, check that you do have that, 10.7 is insufficient. Post back with your OSX version.

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I think this may be the answer.
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Welcome to the Apple community Louise.
If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple ID.
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.
The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device.
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https://appleid.apple.com/
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