How do i change the email on my icloud account?

A few months ago i changed the email used for my apple ID to a gmail and I used this for ITunes and App Store. However a few weeks ago my iPhone was water damaged and i had to send it off for repair, when i got it back I signed in to my apple ID using the gmail email so I could restore my phone using iCloud. This worked until it asked me to sign in again to download all my old apps using my old apple ID and every time i go to settings - iCloud it asks me to sign in using my old email and i cannot click on it to change it to my new gmail one so i cannot download all my apps. Any suggestions?

Apps and music purchased  from iTunes etc are locked to the Apple id used to make the purchase forever
No way to change that

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