I have two apple ID's - one for my Mac and one for iPhone, how do I consolidate them?

I'm fairly new to the mac world - love it but so many options I think I've gotten ahead of myself. I have a mac that uses one apple id and then, for some reason I have set my iphone up with another apple id. Hasn't been much of an issue to date until I updated to Mountian lion on the mac to access icloud. Now the mac and the iphone don't talk using icloud. what do I need to do?

You can't merge Apple IDs. What you could do is set up your phone to use the same iCloud accout you are using on your Mac. To do this, go to Settings>iCloud and turn all synced data (Contacts, Calendars, etc.) to Off. When prompted, choose to keep the data on the phone. When everything is off, scroll to the bottom and tap Delete Account. Now add the iCloud account you set up on your Mac (with the same Apple ID) and turn syncing back on for Calendars, Contacts, etc. When prompted, you will probably want to choose merge, to merge the data on your phone with the existing data on this iCloud account.

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 Cheers, Tom

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