How to delete icloud account without a password

Hi
I have just bought an iPad that was advertised as new however when I went to set this up, the previous owner had already set up an iCloud account. How would I delete this? everytime i try to delete account it asks for a password for 'find my iphone to be turned off' which i obviously don't have.
Any ideas please??

Hi swatts88!
I have an article that addresses that situation and can provide some insight for you:
What if I purchase a device that is still linked to the previous owner's account?
Contact the previous owner as soon as possible and ask them to erase the device and remove it from their account. For complete instructions, read how to remove a device from a previous owner's account.
iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. Have a good one!
-Braden

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randers4,
Inasmuch as you instructions were probably right on target they were in fact somewhat mystifing so I followed the rest of your advice and checked in to the Genius Bar at the local Apple Store. There I found an able technical person who dived into the problem until he realized he also could not solve it because I had forgoten the password to the iCloud account.
Then I called the number he gave me for Apple support and was put in touch with another able expert who walked me down a pathway towards success until that also failed. He then turned me over to "Senior Technical Advisor" who took over the project and proceeded to engineer a solution. He had me hook up my IPAD to my MacMini running SnowLeopard and bring up the connection in iTunes. From there I followed his instructions with unwaivering rectitude until the final solution was achieved. Immediately afterwards he must have waived his "Men in Black" forget wand over the phone at me and caused me to forget some of the steps we went through so I cannot reproduce them here. However, such geniuses exist and they reside at the Apple Support Center.
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my girlfriend recently bought his brother's iPhone 5, the problem is? his brother forgot the password for the icloud, therefore she plans on just deleting it. How can we delete it? if we don't know the password for the account?
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You don't. If it's your account, you can reset the password at https://iforgot.apple.com
If it's locked with someone else's account, the owner of the account will have to release the lock.

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Yes you can...watch this video. Saved me from pulling out all of my hair!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zW21pt3UWg

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My mother updated her iphone 4 with IOS 7 and signed up for the iCloud and activated the "Find my phone app". She can't remember her the password that she initially entered. On top of that, when she set up the account she typed a ".con" instead of ".com" on her email account. Since that is not a real email account we can't reset the password/ We have already fixed her appleID, to have the "m" instead of the "n" ,and password but because it doesn't match the account on iCloud we can't do much.
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Activation Lock in iOS 7 > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
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-we have to put in a password because the "Find My Phone" app is activated
-she can't remember the password
-the password can't be reset because the email entered has an "n" instead "m" so we can't get a resend email.
See Here... ask to speak with the Account Security Team...
Apple ID: Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security
Or Email Here > Apple Support iTunes Store Contact
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You can't actually delete an account but you can log out and create a new one. You'd do that from the iCloud system preference panel.

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