HT4859 different iCloud accounts

I have a different ICloud account for my iphone and ipad . How do I cange the one on my iphone?

ronird wrote:
I have 2 icloud accounts that I want to merge.  Any way of doing that?
Thanks
You can't merge iCloud accounts, but you can use your device to migrate data from one account to the other.  To do this, sign into the account that you want to abandon and turn on your iCloud sync settings.  If you want to save any photo stream photos from the account, do that first by saving them to your camera roll.  If you are syncing notes with this account you'll also have to open each one and email it to yourself so you can use them later to copy and paste the text into new notes created in the other account.  Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, choose Keep on My iDevice, and provide the password to turn off Find My iPhone (if running iOS 7).  Finally, sign into the account your are keeping and choose Merge to upload the data on your device (from the other account) to the new account and merge it with the data already there.  You cannot move the iCloud email account from the other iCloud account so you will have to leave that behind.

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