HT4489 iCloud login ID

A warning box tells me that my login has to be 21 characters or less for iCloud ID. But the email address I use for my Apple ID has 26 characters. How do I get around this?

Thanks for your help Roger Wilmut1. A quick explanation. The woman in question had 2 Apple IDs and went to the Genius Bar to get this sorted out. They sorted it out but there were a few App casualties along the way. No great drama. Now the Apple User would like to use the same ID for iCloud as the Apple ID the Genius Bar gave her. Why? She's elderly and is finding logins and passwords to be a bit of a chore. Most would agree. Anyway, she's going back to the Genius Bar and will see if she can achieve her dream of a shortened, easy-to-remember, iCloud address. Thanks Roger.

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Talk about a downgrade. I regularly use my phone to find my wife's iPad or my son's iPhone. Or should I say, I used to. Now I can only find the phone I'm using.
Awesome.

Here here! it seems to me that Apple is looking to get people to have one major iCloud account and force families to buy additional storage.. WIth 7 devices (and thousands of $$$ in devices) I couldn't possibly use one account at 5 gb for back up, 10 GB would be a stretch between my wife and I between our combined 4 devices. Why would I spend this kind of money again to put my kids in idevices when the BEST security device just got castrated? Really disappointing.

HT1353 Is it possible to have another iCloud login on my unit without me logging into that account?

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My daughter accidentally used my iCloud login on her new iPhone. How do we change the iCloud login in she used to a different one without deleting all of the contacts/calendar/photos from my iPhone? I'm sure it's a simple solution but I'm confused. She's already wirelessly synced to my iCloud account and deleted all of my contacts once. Don't want this to happen again. Thanks for your help!

Welcome to the Apple Community.
just delete the account from the phone (settings > iCloud, scroll to bottom of page). Deleting the account just removes it from the phone, it's not the same as deleting the contacts from the account.

I need to change my iCloud email address. I changed it for my Apple id but I can't log out of iCloud to change it there. Find my iPad is activated so I can't delete my iCloud account. I don't have the email address the iCloud login has anymore.

I need to change my iCloud email address. I changed it for my Apple id but I can't log out of iCloud to change it there. Find my iPad is activated so I can't delete my iCloud account. I don't have the email address the iCloud login has anymore so I can't have the password sent there. To sum it up, iCloud has an old email for the account log-in. I don't remember the password for the old email. I have Find My iPad activated so the iCloud account cannot be deleted. And I am already logged out of iTunes & App Store.

If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple IDand that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.
The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device. It may take a short while to remove the account.
You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.

HT204053 how do i move page and numbers documents from one icloud login to another?

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There's a couple of ways but my tip backing up your documents in the cloud is as good as any.

If I have multiple apple devices and use the same iCloud login on them, shouldn't apple give us more iCloud storage for each device

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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
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Hello alljnii,
Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with your iPad 2. I recommend resetting the password for your old Apple ID to resolve this issue.
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https://iforgot.apple.com
If you have a rescue email setup for your Apple ID, the reset password email will be sent there and not your Apple ID email address:
When you provide a rescue email address, all future security emails, such as password resets from iForgot, will be sent to the address provided.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
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HT4436 For the past two weeks, every time I start up my computer I'm asked for an iCloud login. I've never used iCloud and I'm not likely to. How do I get this login to stop automatically showing up?

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One more quick thing first. Hold the SHIFT key this time as you startup and see if that gets you any further (this is called 'Safe Mode' by the way). I'm not too confident that this will work in your case but it's worth a try. If it boots up, go into Disk Utility and repair permissions.
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Dear manufacturers and users of APPLE's hipster devices,
I just changed my APPLE Id & created a new password.
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Why cant I simply change my iCLOUD LOGIN DATA in the iCloud settings ??
NO... It doesn't work_ :
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WHY?
please... support. !
Do I have to reset my iPhone whenever I change my APPLE Id?! :::
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NO LUCK.
I have to login to delete the existing iCloud Account... What an irony: My OLD login ID doesn't exist anymore. (as I already explained above.) >.<
... again the question comes to mind:::
Do I have to reset my iPhone whenever I change my APPLE Id on anohter device?! :::
Is there a solution?
& NO: I CANNOT EVEN CHANGE MY APPLE ID back to the former (obsolete) E-Mail Address that is still registered in my iPhone and obviously cannot be modified in any available settings. (The iCloud App doesn't seem to be informed... even after I modified my APPLE ID login data in my iPhone settings... as I also explained above...)
Who programmed iOS/ who developed the iCloud App?! Can't You guys have a talk and properly integrate Your login procedures..?
... help! pls.!

>> 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. <<
okay... I'm gonna try to *edit next to the primary email account* ... Does it have to be exactly that entry and if so - why not any?
Why can't I simply re-add and confirm my old E-Mail Address and register that new/old entry as my new/old login for APPLE ID?
I tried that:...I get this:
Just to sum up my problem again for anyone who might have the same or simlar issues:
In short:
All I did was register a new E-Mail Address as my new APPLE ID (on the apple ID management website).
Now nothing works anymore on my iPhone.
1.) I cannot log in on iCloud.
2.) An annoying iCloud login error message pops up every 3-4 seconds.
3.) I cannot modify the login data in the iCloud settings. (nope: the entry is displayed grey in the settings and cannot be modified... if that would simply work, I wouldn't need any support.)
4.) Even after I properly entered the new data in the APPLE ID login settings on the iPhone -- iCloud cannot log me in and annoys me with error messages.
5.) I cannot even delete the iCould account, because I'd have to properly log in to be able to delete it. (I cannot do that, as I explained above.)
6.) AND I CANNOT change my APPLE ID back to my former E-Mail Address: It simply doesn't work (yet?)... When I try to enter my formerly used (and newly registered) E-Mail Address a message appears: "APPLE ID must O NOT ALREADY BE IN USE!" (marked red... see screenshot above!)
7.) This is weird and confusing... and I honestly believe You have to have a talk with your developers team!
Something is wrong on behalf of Your program behavior... not only in the iCloud App, but obviously also on Your APPLE ID management website!
(I don't wanna sound arrogant... I'm happy You replied so fast, but I think You should do something about the problems I described. Even if Your workaround helps! There's clearly something in wrong in the procedures of Your software.)

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