I want to change my apple id but keep my contacts

I am sharing my apple ID with my parents, not sure if it has anything to do with me not receieving text messages or vise versa. Now if I were to change my parents apple ids , how can they get access to their contacts? and will they be able to keep their texts?

Here's what you do. One of you needs to create a new Apple ID, if you don't already have a separate Apple ID. Go to id.apple.com to do so.
Then, go to Settings > iCloud. Delete the Account. When prompted, choose to 'Keep on this iPhone'. This will keep the iCloud Contacts on the device. Then sign into iCloud, using the new Apple ID. Choose to 'Merge' when prompted. The only thing you'll lose off of the iPhone is synced Photostream photos & documents. You'll keep the Contacts, Calendars, etc.
Do the same thing under Settings > Messages > Send & Receive, Settings > FaceTime, Settings > iTunes & App Store and Settings > GameCenter.
You can keep the same ID under iTunes & App Store if you'd like. That simply means you're sharing the purchase history for Apps & iTunes purchases.

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Hello,
I have spent days and hours trying to find a definite answer on what I can do with my situation. I have been able to figure out that I cannot change my apple id because my apple id is my icloud e-mail address. But does that leave me no option? Does that mean that I will have to create a new apple id and subsequently I will also get a new icloud e-mail address? If so, then how will I retain all of my purchases? Is it possible to delete my icloud account and then change my apple id?
I would really appreciate anyone that can give me a clear answer on this. Thanks!!

Sorry I missed this post earlier. For some reason I didn't get an email alert that you had posted.
If you want to want to change your Apple ID and your iCloud email address, you'll need to create a new Apple ID using the name you want, then create a new iCloud account with it and migrate your data to the new account. After creating your new Apple ID, save any photo stream photos on your iOS device that you want to keep to your camera roll (unless already there) by opening your my photo stream album, tapping Select, tapping the photos, tap the share icon (box with upward facing arrow), then tapping Save to Camera Roll. If you are syncing notes with iCloud that you want to keep, you'll need to open each of your notes and email them to yourself so you can later copy and paste the text into new notes created in your new account. Then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password to turn off Find My iDevice and choose Keep on My iDevice when prompted. Then sign back in with a new Apple ID to create your new account and choose Merge to upload your data to the new account. You will then have to recreate your notes in the new account from the emails you sent earlier. When you turn on Mail in Settings>iCloud you will choose your new @icloud.com email address.
Once this is done on the first device, if you have other devices, you can just save any photo strema photos, delete the existing account, then choose Delete from My iDevice (since the data is already in the new account) and sign back in with the new ID to download the data.
You'll then have to decide if you want to keep using the old ID for iTunes or not. Personally, I wouldn't recommend changing it to a new ID for several reasons. First, all of your current purchased media is tied to the current ID and cannot be moved to your new ID. This means that you will end up with different things purchased with different IDs over time, which can make things complicated. Secondly, if you have already enabled automatic downloads, or have downloaded previous purchased using your old ID, you cannot change it to your new ID for 90 days from the time you first did this. Once this waiting period expires you can then change to the new ID and access previous purchases with your new ID, but you would not be able to access previous purchased from the old ID again for another 90 days. (This is what I mean by it being complicated to have multiple Apple IDs for iTunes purchases.)

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Hey shazza6877,
Follow these steps to create a new Apple ID without a credit card:
Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store account without a credit card http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2534
If you're unable to select None when I edit my payment information, check out this article for a resolution:
Why can’t I select None when I edit my payment information?
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5366
Welcome to Apple Support Communities!
Sincerely,
Delgadoh

I want to change my apple id, but I am told that the new email add is already linked to an account?

I changed email addresses some time ago, and I thought that I had updated my Apple Account. When I tried to log in with the new email addy, I got a message that this emaill addy had not been set up as an account yet. So I cancelled that message, went into my account witht the old email addy, and proceded to follow the necessary steps to change my ID.
I then received a message that the new email addy was already attached to an account. ??????????????? I tried the new email again, but it still wants me to set up new account (ie reenter all my information). How do I get my new email addy cleared from the system so I can use it on my current account?

THe email address you want to use may be set as the recovery email for another account. That would prevent you from using it, until you remove it from that account.

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Make a new one that only you will use. You will need a new email address. Apple will not allow you to use the same email address on two separate Apple IDs.

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Ok I'm goin to call your old Apple ID #1 your new email you want to use #2 and another email #3.
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- select manage your apple id
- sign into #2
- edit primary email and change it to #3
- save changes and sign out
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- save changes
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- verify account
If done correctly you should be fine, also in terms of #3 that would be an email you have that you dont mind being an apple id that you wont use. Sorry for the funny way of explaining just thought it would be shorter to type out lol.
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The operator will take you through some steps you may have already tried, however they need to be sure they have exhausted all usual approaches before trying to reset your account, so you should try to be helpful and show patience with the procedure.
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