My iphone associated with wrong apple ID

My wife and I started our Mac associations with a 3G and a 3GS repsectively. We started off syncing to separate computers in separate geographic loacations. At some point, we decided that sharing the apps we purchased would be easier if we both synced at the same PC. As we merged our Mac accumulations I found myself asked more frequently for her credentials. Never was a big deal. Fast forward... We recently purchased two 4S's. We use apps tagged to both our AppleID's. Her's thinks it belongs to her, but I somehow have found that mine is associated with her apple ID and apparently associating itself with an iCloud account that is labeled as hers. We each have "me.com" designations set up, but don't really understand what they imply. How can I get my phone to associate with an iCloud in my name labeled with my name and credentials? Is this even important?
Thanks,
Lance

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Dear all,
I recently bought a used iPhone 4S via ebay. Backed up my old iPhone 4 and installed the Backup on the new 4S. Everything fine but when I turn on my iTunes Match switch I get the following error message:
"This Device Is Already Associated With an Apple ID"
"If you turn on Automatic Downloads with your Apple ID, you cannot auto-download or download past purchases with a different Apple ID for 90 days."
Now I do not really understand the meaning of this message: Which IDs are meant in this message?
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Very confusing message...

Hello Christof_DE,
This message just indicates that, once you sign into your Apple ID, you won't be able to sign into a different Apple ID on this same device for 90 days. If you intend only on using your Apple ID, there should be no noticeable effect.
iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4627
Cheers,
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Hi corbi111,
Welcome to the Support Communities! The resource below will explain the alert you are seeing.
Manage your associated devices in iTunes - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204074
When you turn on iTunes Match, Family Sharing, or Automatic Downloads, or when you download past purchases on your computer, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, that device becomes associated with your Apple ID. You can associate your Apple ID with up to 10 devices, with a maximum of 5 computers at any time. Each computer must also be authorized using the same Apple ID. You don't need to authorize your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
After you associate a device with your Apple ID, you can't associate that device with another Apple ID for 90 days.See your associated devices
You can see the devices associated with your Apple ID in iTunes on your Mac or PC:
Click to open your account in iTunes, or use these steps:
Open iTunes, choose Store > Sign In, then enter your Apple ID and password.
Choose Store > View Account.
Click Manage Devices in the iTunes in the Cloud section. If you haven't associated any devices with your Apple ID, you won't see the Manage Devices section.
Next to each device, you can see when it associated with your Apple ID. You can also track how many days remain before you can associate your device with a different Apple ID.Remove an associated device
To remove a device or computer from your Apple ID:
Click to open your account in iTunes, or use these steps:
Open iTunes, choose Store > Sign In, then enter your Apple ID and password.
Choose Store > View Account.
Click Manage Devices in the iTunes in the Cloud section.
Click Remove next to the device that you want to remove.
When you remove your Apple ID from a device, the 90-day limit stays in place on that device. But you can associate your Apple ID to another device that doesn't have the 90-day limit. Depending on when you associated the device, you might need to wait to associate it to a new Apple ID.
Last Modified: Dec 23, 2014
Report a problem with an item purchased from the iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

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Hello there, Shellywms09.
The following Knowledge Base article points out why you are receiving that message on your iPad:
iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4627
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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Hi,
When I connected my iPhone 5 to itunes it said it couldn't read the device and I had to restore it.
After I did this I signed in with my primary Apple ID, that I use for iCloud, Mail, iMessage, Photo Stream etc. However most of my purchases & iTunes Match have been made on another Apple ID (that I used before iCloud was introduced)
Now when I try and turn on iTunes match using this ID I get a message saying:
"This device is already associated with an Apple ID. You can use iTunes Match on this device with just one apple ID every 90 days. This device can be used with another Apple ID in 33 days"
This is very very frustrating as I didn't realise what I had done when signing into the iPhone. I have sent a message to Apple to see if they can reset this before the 33 days so I can sign in with the correct ID for match.
Anyone else had a similiar problem? I hope that there will be away in future of merging ID's so that this problem doesn't happen - I'm sure it's very common!
Thanks
Steven

Yes, I did as you suggested and signed into the iTunes store with the Apple ID I use for purchases and iTunes Match.
When I attempt to turn on iTunes match I am given the following message:
"This device is already associated with an Apple ID. You can use iTunes Match on this device with just one apple ID every 90 days. This device can be used with another Apple ID in 33 days"
I believe this happened after I restored my iPhone5(as requested by iTunes) and logged back into the device with the incorrect ID, which was then set up to use for iTunes & App Store Purchases.
When I then logged out of this ID and tried to use the correct ID, it was then that I received the message saying I cannot use it!
If you think there is something else I can do to resolve this then please let me know.
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First post on Apple Support Communities :-)
When I bought my first Apple product (iPad 2) a few months ago, I didn't know anything about Apple IDs, iTunes Store, Home Sharing and Computer authorizations. I experimented a little with iTunes and home sharing in VMware virtual machines (Windows 7) on my computer (Ubuntu). I quickly used up the 5 authorized computers, so I used the "Deauthorize all computers associated with your Apple ID" feature in iTunes and kept on experimenting (since I couldn't get things to work properly in my virtual environment).
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