HT204053 My wife and I bought our phones separately with different credit cards and our own information. Why is it set up with us SHARING the 5GB storage on the cloud?

Question

Help!!??

Answer 1

To change the iCloud account you have to first delete the existing account from your phone.  Go to Settings>iCloud, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account.  (This will only delete the account from this phone, not from iCloud.  The phone that will be keeping the account will not be effected by this.)  When prompted about what to do with the iCloud data, be sure to select Keep On iPhone.  Next, set up a new iCloud account using a different Apple ID (if you don't have one, tap Get a Free Apple ID at the bottom).  Then turn iCloud data syncing for contacts, etc. back to On, and when prompted about merging with iCloud, choose Merge.  This will upload the data to the new account.
Finally, if you have any merged data in your accounts, to un-merge the data you will then have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the her contacts from your account, and vice versa).
Also, if you need to change the ID for iMessage, go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive, tap the ID, sign out, then sign back in with the new ID.  If you need to do this for FaceTime, go to Settings>FaceTime and do the same thing.