How to delete an existing Icloud account?

I am using Ipad Mini Retina.
I want to delete an existing ICloud account that made in the very first set up of my Ipad. I cannot remember the password of this ICloud account.
I am now using another Apple ID.
My Ipad when updated into iOS8, always ask me to key in the password for the old ICloud account, this is very irritated.

If the old Apple ID keep popping up maybe because you have apps that uses that Apple ID.
You need to delete those apps and re-purchase them again using the new Apple ID.
Note: Content bought using an Apple ID cannot be merged or transferred to another Apple ID.

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i bought used iphone. so i dont know remaining icloud account or thier id-password.
If i took backup of my phone on itunes. will i able to retrive backup from my pc to my iphone without updating it. If yes please suggest best way to reset my iphone. and I DONT WANT TO UPDATE MY IPHONE TO 6.1.3 OR iO7.
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To do this on someone else's device that already has an iCloud account without them losing any data do the following:
First have them save any photo stream photos that are over 30 days to their camera roll by opening the my photo stream album, tap Edit, tap the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll.
Go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, and choose Delete from My iPhone (iPad, iPod). Their iCloud data will still be in iCloud and will reappear on their device when they sign back in.
Go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your Apple ID to create your new account. Do not turn on any data syncing with the account and do not choose Merge with iCloud as you do not want to merge any of their data with your new account.
Tap Delete Account to delete your new account from their device, then have them sign back in with their ID and their iCloud data will reappear on their device.
You can then go to Settings>iCloud on your device and sign into the new iCloud account that you just created.

HT204053 How do I delete my existing iCloud account (on ALL my apple devices), and start over from scratch??

How do I delete my existing iCloud account (across ALL my apple devices), and start over from scratch??
(cant seem to get calendars to ever sync right, on my devices, and across to my wifes'....so want to start with a "clean installation")

Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account (this disconnects the device from icloud but doesn't delete any data on icloud or on other devices).
If you then want to sign back in using a different ID, do so on the same screen.
I also strongly suggest that you and your wife use different icloud accounts, otherwise all your devices will have the same data on them, same emails, reminders, etc. Most likely not what you want.

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My kids have had various iOS devices over the years, and created their own iCloud accounts for backups, email, etc with the introduction of iOS 7 (maybe 6). Family Sharing is a long overdue solution to managing to all the devices in a family.
My question is: How do I invite an existing iCloud account holder into my Family as a Child?
By default, these accounts are imported as Adults. Deleting my kids' accounts and starting over with new accounts is NOT and option, therefore without the ability to flag these existing accounts as "Child", this Family Sharing is a useless feature.
Any insights on how I can invite Child accounts to my Family Sharing Organizer account would be much appreciated.
~Rick

If the child is 13 or older, you can. Just set the birthday to 13 years old and it will work just fine.
If the child is under 13, you can't. Apple decided that you didn't need that functionality, just like me and apparently half the planet.

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You will have to try to recover the password or contact Apple for help.
https://iforgot.apple.com/
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I have 2 iCloud accounts that now need extra storage... I only need 1 account. I ended up purchasing a plan for more storage on the 1st one and then my phone would no longer back up because it's running on the other account... Now it needs more storage! Can you help me delete the one I don't use and make this all better?

Welcome to the Apple community.
When you delete the account from your device, you will be given the opportunity to save Safari data, reminders, calendars and contacts to your device, which you can later merge with the other account once you login.
You won't be able to save your photo stream photos in the same way, so if you have any photo stream photos that are not already in your camera roll, you should move them there before you delete your account.
Your iWork documents can be saved to iTunes on your device, but if you have them on a Mac they would be much easier to save to your desktop there. You can move them back after you switch.
Notes can be shared to messages or mail and copy and pasted back after the switch. Although if you have a Mac, you may find it easier to do there. You could also use a temporary secondary account (see last item) to log into both accounts and copy and paste directly into your other account.
You can set up Mail forwarding at iCloud.com mail preferences (little gear icon-bottom left) to receive mail from your old address to your new one.
As an alternative to just switching, you might consider switching and adding your previous account back as a secondary account at settings > mail, contacts, calendars. You would still need to move your photos and iWork documents and save your safari data, but you'd have access to your old mail, contacts, calendars, reminders and notes.

How to delete an old Icloud account without the password??

I have three devices, iphone 5, 4 and IPAD. I recently changed my appleID, and all three devices have the same apple ID (I logged into apple using an apple ID and revised the apple ID and updated my password). The problem is that the icloud account will not display my new appleID, only the old appleID, the appleID displayed can’t be selected or edited. 1) The devices will not let me delete the account(s) without entering a password, but my apple ID password is associated with new appleID, not the old one. Question: How can an old login be removed, deleted or revised from Icloud when it no longer exist??

If the old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Repeat this on your other devices. Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

HT201363 I need to delete an existing iCloud account that was set up on my phone using a previous Apple ID. Since the I've reset both my Apple ID and password (lost my iPad) I cannot delete the iCloud account from my phone because it is still under the ol

I have an old iCloud account on my phone.
This account was set up using an old Apple ID and password.
Since then I've changed both id and password.
In order to delete the existing (old) iCloud account from my phone I need to provide the old password from the old and defunct account.
I don't remember that password.
I've tried resetting it through the support network but to no avail.
I need to delete the old account in order to set up a new one.
Any thoughts?

If the ID is yours but you don't know the password, you'll have to reset it (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5787). If the ID belongs to a previous ownder of the phone, you'll have to either get the ID and password from them, or have them erase the phone and remove it from their account as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4515.

HT4865 How to delete the preowner icloud account without knowing the password?

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II'm in the same situation. Purchased a refurbished IPhone 5. I had to do a factory reset and when I reset it again, itunes tells me that the phone is linked to someone else. Called the company I bought the phone from and they say iTunes can do a master reset to link my iTunes account to the phone. Have any of you heard of this being possible?

HT5622 How to delete Apple and iCloud accounts...???

There is a problem with iPhone 5.
Seems to be a design or manufacturing fault, phones made circa late 2012/2013. Note - my phone and several other colleagues too.
On the basis of Apple ignoring faults with iPhone 5 (over 30% calls dropped or missed on my phone - including a replacement from Apple), I now want to delete
my Apple and iCloud account. But I cannot see how this is done form the Account.
Any advice please? Thank you.

The Frequently Askled Questions about iCloud are found at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4436 where you can link to managing your account.
An Apple ID account cannot be deleted/terminated...you can only stop using it and let if fade away.

How to delete an old iCloud account after changing Apple ID

have changed my Apple id which half worked. But iCloud on the iPad still linked to old ID - and can't sign out without giving a password that no longer exists.

Hello Dun2015,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you’re running into an issue signing out of an iCloud account on your iPad Air because the password that you’re entering isn’t accepted. Try resetting the password for that Apple ID as shown in this article:
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How do i change my icloud account without it deleting all my photos in my photo stream and documents on my phone?

i am trying to change my icloud account so that it is the same as my apple id. ive looked at similar questions people have asked and done what they said but when i got to delete my existing icloud account it tells me that if i proceed i will lose all of my photos in my photo stream and documents on my phone which i obviously dont want to to. i need help!

To change the ID for iCloud you have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the ID you want to use. Deleting the account only deletes the account and your synced data from your iPad, not from iCloud. Provided you are signing back into the same account your data will be synced back to your iPad when you sign back in. If, on the other hand, you are changing to a new account and need to migrate your data to the new account, be sure to choose Keep on My iPad when prompted, then choose Merge when your enable syncing with the new account to upload your data.
If you want to save your photo stream photos, save them to your camera roll before deleting the account (tap Edit, tap all the photos, tap Share, tap Save to Camera Roll).

How do I unlink an iCloud account from an iTunes one?

This is like https://discussions.apple.com/message/25495321 which randers4 answered last month. My wife & son both have iPhones on the her iTunes & iCloud accounts, which causes all sorts of grief with iMessage & iTunes purchases (apps & music) and we need to get son on his own . She has hundreds of notes and thousands of calendar entries that she REALLY doesn't want to lose; he has lots of music & apps (bought on her account) that he REALLY doesn't want to lose.
randers 4 suggested first
You need to migrate her device to a different account. To do this, start by saving any photo stream photos that you want to keep to your camera roll (unless already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll. If you are syncing notes with iCloud that you want to keep, you'll need to open each of your notes and email them to yourself so you can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in your new account. Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account (which only deletes it from this device, not from iCloud; your devices won't be effected by this), provide the password to turn off Find My iDevice and choose Keep on My iDevice when prompted. Then sign back in with a different Apple ID to create your new account and choose Merge to upload your data.
1) I don't understand the difference between photo stream and camera roll - what's that all about? Sounds quite labour intensive for anything more than a few photos. Son has hundreds of photos taken on the iPhone, wife has dozens - can I just use iTunes to take my wife's photos off her device, and leave son with anything he's got in the cloud?
2) Notes are a real issue - would be horrible to have to mail mail each one and recreate. Is there no way to bulk export, either from phone or cloud?
3) What about calendar entries? The phone only stores the last x months, and the rest are on iCloud. Really don't want to lose these, they are effectively my wife's diary with notes taken at meetings and from our holidays. As they aren't all on the deivce, I don't know if Merge will do what randers4 suggests.
All looks really messy, any help the community can offer is much appreciated.
simonpb

You're welcome. I've been gone all day so I'm just getting back to you...
To answer your first question, that's normal. When you take a photo on your device (or save an image from an email or web page), it is saved to the camera roll. If you have photo stream enabled, new photos/images added to the camera roll are then uploaded to your photo stream. (This happens when the device is connected to wifi with the camera app closed and it has at leaset 20% battery life remaining.) Once added to photo stream, all devices.computers sharing the photo stream then receive a copy of the photo. Since the device that added the photo to camera roll is also sharing the photo stream, it receives a copy of the photo as well, in the my photo stream album. That's how you end up with a copy of the photo in both the camera roll (the original) and in my photo strem (the photo stream copy).
simonpb wrote:
If I understand correctly, I can avoid any issue with Notes & Calendar by keeping the existing iCloud account on my wife's device, and migrate my son to his own new iCloud, having protected any of his Photo Stream pics from deletion first. Then we can lose his data on her iCloud, and presumably his iCloud will only have the stuff uploaded from his iPhone after it is linked to the new account. Is that right?
Correct. When you delete the existing iCloud account from his phone, it is only deleted from his phone, not from iCloud. Thus, deleting the account from his phone will not effect any devices that continue to use the existing account. Once his phone is on a separate account, your wife and son can each go to icloud.com from a computer and delete each other's data from their own account without effecting the other account. After doing so, they will only have their own data in their separate accounts.
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