I have 2 iCloud accounts, one under hotmail and one under gmail. I would like to consolidate them.
Hi,
I have had an iTunes account using my hotmail email address for a long time. I recently bought an iPhone and began using it and unintentionally created a new iCloud account based on my gmail address (I thought I was logging into my existing account but accidentally created a new one).
All my iTunes purchases are on my old account. This account is also associated with my preferred icloud email address handle. But in the future I'd like to use my gmail address with this account.
Can I consolidate my two accounts?
Can I delete the new account associated with the gmail from my iPhone? If so will I still be able to use my gmail address with the old account?
Thanks for any help
Andrew
If your contacts, calendars, notes, etc. are synced from your Google account they will not be in your iCloud account so you don't need to worry about migrating any data. You can go to icloud.com and sign in with your Gmail ID and check the data there. If it's empty (other than Mail), you don't need to migrate any data.
The first thing to do is go to Settings>iCloud, turn off Find My iPhone and provide your password.
Then you need to create another non-Apple email account, such as another free Gmail account. This is necessary because in order to associate your Gmail address with your Hotmail account, you need to first unlink it from the new Gmail account by substituting the new email account in it's place. When you have the new account, follow the steps under “How to edit or change your Apple ID and primary email address” in this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/he68, to change the primary email address and name of your Gmail ID to the new email address.
Once you've done that, go through the same steps with your Hotmail ID, substituting the Hotmail primary email address and ID name with the Gmail address you just unlinked from the other ID. Save and verify the change. Your old Hotmail ID should now be the way you want it, using your Gmail address.
Now save any photo stream photos on your phone that you want to keep to your camera roll, then go to Settings>iCloud on your phone, scroll down and tap Delete Account, choose Delete from My iPhone when prompted, then turn Find My iPhone back on. Then sign back in with your Gmail address to reconnect to your original iCloud account.
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