HT204053 can I change my primary icloud account.

It appears that all my devices has accepted my primary email account except my Mac which for some reason has accepted a secondary mobile me address that I used for my parents. How can I change my primary icloud account back to my primary email address?

System Preferences > iCloud > Sign Out
then sign in with the right iCloud account.

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How can I change my primary iCloud account

Just bought a macbook air when setting it up I used the wrong apple id for my primary icloud account. I have tried to delet it but because the find my mac is on it does not allow me to delete the accout and restart.
Any ideas??
Thanks

If your Apple ID is a non-Apple controlled email address then you can log in to…
https://appleid.apple.com/
… and change it to anything other email address of your choosing. Apple IDs cannot be deleted once they have been created although they can be moved. If your Apple ID is an @mac.com or @me.com address then you cannot change your Apple ID.

I'm battling to change my primary iCloud account on my mac, please help? I want to replace it with my secondary account by can't find a way to do this?

I'm battling to change my primary iCloud account on my mac, please help? I want to replace it with my secondary account by can't find a way to do this? Tony

System Preferences/iCloud - log out and then log in with your other ID.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3390335?tstart=0
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HT4897 Can I change my primary @icloud or @me account name yet?

Hi all,
I have done some digging but cant see if there has been a change to this option yet... but can we change out primary @icloud or @me email address yet.
I set my original one and wasn't going to use it, and only use alias addresses so if my account got too much spam I could just change alias name. but it looks like some spam list now has my primary @me account.
Cheers
Jay

It's not a separate account. You @me.com and [email protected] are the same thing and you can't delete one or the other.
However what you could do is to set up a Rule (click on the cogwheel icon at top right on the iCloud mail web page) and set up a Rule which move all messages addressed to [email protected] to the Trash.

My mum set up an iCloud account and forgot the password, and this caused me to create a new account. The new account works for the App Store and all that, but I can't change the initial iCloud account without the password. Help?

My mum set up an iCloud account for my iPhone 4 but forgot the password. This caused me to create a new account, and it can be used for the App Store and iTunes and all that, but I can't change the initial iCloud account (the one my mum made). My device keeps prompting me for the password every few minutes after updating to iOS 8, and I've tried every option possible to retrieve the password, but I don't even know the answers to the security questions and I can't find the password reset email anywhere and I don't know the back up emails my mum used. I literally cannot find any legitimate way to sign out of the initial iCloud account without entering a password (which neither I nor my parents know). Is there a way for me to retreive the password or change to my new account without the password?

See:Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions and How do I mange iCloud account about 3/4s of the way down.

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).
she has a back up on icloud but i cannot switch the account from the computer anywhere.
You need at least 10.7.2, check that you do have that, 10.7 is insufficient. Post back with your OSX version.

How can I change the initial iCloud account without reinstalling?

i install mountain lion, and set up the icloud with a new @icloud account, however, I have a @gmail account already and used on my iphone4, I want to share information between these devices, so I log out @icloud and log in with @gmail account, contact information is OK, however, when I use the messeage, mac use @icloud to send message, can I change the initial icloud account or should I reinstall?

You can change the Apple ID in the Users & Groups preference pane.

How do I change the "primary iCloud account" on my iMac?

This issue has been bothering me for YEARS so I'd REALLY appreciate some help with this.
I started my cloud syncing use with MobileMe several years ago. At that time, I created an AppleID to purchase music on within iTunes and a 2nd AppleID to sync content using MobileMe between my iMac and iPhone. I used an old business name to for the account which was long and, since it's not longer a business, annoying to work with!
When the new iCloud service was launced and MobileMe shut down, I wanted to change the name of the MobileMe appleid to something shorter and more descriptive. By this time, my husband and kids had iphones and a Mac lap top had been added to the mix, so I really wanted to update this account name to make it easier for everyone.
At that time, you could not rename your AppleID if it was previously a MobileMe account. So rather than just keep the original account, I decided to create a THIRD AppleID with a name everyone could remember. When I did that, something interesting happended on my iMac. When I attempted to switch all of my syncing functions over the new iCloud account, I found that I could NOT. I could only sync Mail & Notes, Contacts and Calendars between all the devices with this new account. When I attempted to sync Bookmarks, Photo Stream, Find My Mac or iCloud Storage, I received the following message within my new iCloud account Mail set up area: "This is not your primary iCloud account. Only your primary account can use Bookmarks, Photo Stream, Find My Mac or iCloud Storage. So as it turns out, I had to keep BOTH accounts open and am now paying for storage on TWO iCloud accounts! Help!!
Obviously, I would like to convert all syncing operations to my NEWER iCloud account and DELETE this old MobileMe account. Apple has automatically updated the email address for this account to an "@icloud.com" address.
Any takers on this one?? I really appreciate anything you can share that might help!
Leanndra : )

I activated an iPad for a work associate; somehow, MY Apple ID account is assigned to his iPad's iCloud backup. His iPad is using up all MY iCloud space... he IS set up in App Store with his own Apple ID.
On my own iPad (just to check out what settings/options were), i went to "Settings/iCloud: and tapped "Delete Acct". BUT, then I got a message that all Photo Stream and documents stored in iCloud would be deleted from this iPad... so, two questions...
is there ANY way for him to retrieve the documents he saved in MY iCloud account (there's 9.1g worth of HIS backup in my account!! ... i purchased extra space before i realized it was being eaten up by him and not mine).
Because he'd be logging back in under his OWN ID which had never backed up his device before......so, he'll lose everything, right?
Really need someone who KNOWS apple iOS/Cloud workings to answer this one please ... much (at least some, lol) of his data is work-related.... at 9gig, can't be all work!! must be a lot of movies, photo's and music i'd guess. as this is a WORK-issued device, so be it if he has to re-load all that................

HT201317 I can`t find my "primary iCloud account". Not on my mac. Where?

Hi. I am trying to set up my Photo Stream in iCloud, but I get the message that "this mac is not your primary iCloud Account". And there is only "mail and notes", "contacts" and "Calender" available in my iCloud accont here. No Photo Stream. How do I fix this? Anyone who knows?
How do I find out what is my primary account? And how do I change it to this mac?
Looking forward to hearing from you out there!!!
Tove

Hi Winston and thank you. Well, - I have done what you say, - I go into System Preferences on my Mac - and there I find iCloud. What I see then i iCloud, - but there is only mail and notes, contacts and calendars there. It also says that this is not your primary iCloud accont. But the thing is - how do I make it primary, - so that I can get photo stream and and other stuff on my Mac - inside iCloud? Perhaps my iPhone or iPad is my primary iCloud account - or how does this work?
The thing I want is to see the photoes in iCloud at my Mac!!!
tove

HT204053 Can I set up two iCloud accounts on my IPAD3 at the same time? If not how do you sign out of one to sign in to another?

Can I set up two iCloud accounts on my IPAD3 at the same time? If not how do you sign out of one to sign in to another?

Welcome to the Apple community.
You can add more than one account to your iPad, but you can only have one primary account. Secondary accounts which you can add at settings> mail, contacts, calendars do not have all the features of a primary account such as photo stream.

HT204053 can I set up my icloud account remotely or do I have to have the ipad?

Can I set up my icloud account remotley or do I have to have my ipad?

Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account. You *should* then be able to enter another ID/password. Is this exactly where you had your problem?

HT204053 can you have two separate iCloud accounts on one iMac device?

can you have two separate iCloud accounts on one iMac device?

You can have only one iCloud "user configuration" per local user on the Mac. Who the local user belongs to doesn't mind. Since it's a local user it's not related with who actually uses it. So let's say you want to set up Photo streaming using your iCloud user, just configure iCloud (under System Preferences) the same way you did on your phone and you're done.
But, beware: if you're only interested in synching photos, uncheck everything else when configuring iCloud on the Mac, otherwise you will merge, for example, your husband contacts, calendar and mail with those on your phone.
If you want to avoid any problems you can easily create another local user on the Mac with your name, under System Preferences, System, Users & Groups. After you create the user, logoff. The Mac will ask if you want to disable autologin (since there's more than one user that can log in now), answer yes and you will be presented with a logon screen. Click on your account name, insert the password and configure iCloud to sync with your phone.

How do I change my primary iCloud account on my mac to a different I cloud account

I have two Icloud accounts. I would like to change my primary account on my mac to the other one.

To remove iCloud: go to http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mmb1de40d9 and expand 'Turn off iCloud completely' for instructions. Then you can set up again from scratch.

How do I change my primary icloud account?

It is currently set as .me even though I set up an icloud account ages ago. It has no edit feature that allows me to change it. I cannot send invitations from icalendar or pictures from iphoto because of this. It is so aggravating!

Sign out of both accounts at system preferences> iCloud and system preferences mail, contacts & calendars. At which point you will be logged into neither account. Then return to system preferences> iCloud and log into the account that you wish to be your primary account.

Change my primary iCloud account

I am operating a MacBook Pro with OX 10.10 Yosemite. I have two iCloud accounts, of which one shows up as my primary account, and another as my secondary account. I am considering shifting things around so that my secondary account becomes the primary account through which all my devices and documents are kept in synch, and the primary one takes the place of my secondary drive.. I have just install Yosemite, but are holding off converting to iCloud Drive until I figure out the answer to this. Where do I go to make that change, and if I make it, will it still be possible for me to upgrade "Pages", "Numbers", etc,.. which I bought via my primary drive?

Thank you very much for this reference:
You have provided me with excellent instructions on how to address my problem of getting rid of two iCloud personalities, and never knowing which synchs what.
I must say, though: it is not an easy process! Why hasn't Apple, after all these years, supplied a simpler or more automated way of merging 2 iCloud subscriptions into one? There must be a lot of people out there that could use it!
So I hope an influential reader reads this message and sends a complaint to the Apple managers.

HT204053 can I change my primary icloud account.

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