Need to delete icloud account, but I changed my email and password

I changed my iCloud login information to my new email address, and now I can't change my iCloud account on my iPhone because it's still using the old email address. When prompted for the password it fails because the ID/email address is no longer tied to my account and is no longer even a valid email address.
How can I change my iCloud account without these credentials?

If the old iCloud ID ("email address") is an earlier version of your current ID, temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

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Not sure about the option at the bottom of the Photo App - I think it is a permanent item (like Places - I don't use Places for my photos, but it is there all the same.
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My iPad has been stolen. I Do NOT have iCloud account but I have apple ID and serial number. Can i locate it with these available options?

Report to police along with serial number. Change all your passwords.
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Hi mt.ahsan!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5625
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If you are not receiving the verification email from creating your iCloud account you may need to resend it. Also make sure you are checking your junk/spam folders. Please use the following article as a reference.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3988
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But to turn it off it says it's going to delete my photos FROM MY DEVICE. Not from the iCloud, but from the Device!
My question is why does Apple think it is OK to remove MY files from MY device that I own and save them to an area that I will no longer have access to?
I don't think that Apple is stealing my photos for nefarious purposes. I don't think Apple cares about my photos. So I don't understand why they would take them away from me.
I tried to login to the iCloud and see what photos they have. And you know what? I can't. If I try it in Safari on the iPad, I get Set up iCloud ( already done), install find my iPhone, and Find my Friends. If I login from my Macbook, I have no photos showing, which I think it because I never enabled photo backups on that device. I can't see the ones from my iPad, which are on the SAME ACCOUNT. Now I'm puzzled by the point of this iCloud feature. I would have thought it was a way to access my stuff from anywhere. I guess not? Then what IS the point?
Like I said I have a backup of the stuff on the iPad, so that's not the problem. The problem is why is Apple making me jump through hoops to restore my own files that I did not delete? It's the exact opposite of what I want to happen. I want to delete photos from the cloud and not from the device.

Hey there mlz89,
It sounds like you want to remove an account you have set up to use Messages. You should be able to do this with the Internet Accounts section of the computers system preferences, or modify an accounts settings here:
List of account features or list of account types (on the right)
If an account is highlighted on the left, its features and settings are listed on the right. Select the features you want to use and change settings as you like.
If no account is highlighted on the left, you can add one by clicking a provider such as iCloud on the right.
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If you remove an account while your Mac is set up for iCloud Keychain, the account is also removed from your other Mac computers set up for iCloud Keychain.
OS X Mavericks: Internet Accounts preferences
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14286
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
All the very best,
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Who do I contact to help me get into my icloud account as it is telling me to log into an old email I used when I first got my iPhone, I recently changed the email and password, it is right but telling me to sign into my old one.. How do I contact apple?!

I pretty much said everything in the question haha, please help! :)

If you need to change the iCloud ID on your phone, go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, then sign back in with the new ID. This deletes the account and your iCloud data from your device, but not from iCloud. Provided you are signing back into the same account, your iCloud data will reappear on your device when you sign back in.
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Need to delete iCloud Account

Hey there.
I recently decided I want a professional iCloud-eMail Address, i.e. [email protected] and created a new iCloud-Account for it. However, I recently found out about aliases and would now like to delete the pro adress and just add it as an alias, as to get rid of the hassle of logging on and off when using different accounts. As far as I have heard, normally accounts are not being deleted, but I am sure that if there is a reason to do so (as there is one in my case) it is possible. How do I go about this?
Thanks in advance for any helpful comments!

I do not know, if there is a reason for that, but I am sorry that I have to tell you that you cannot delete an address and add it to another account.

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Does deleting my icloud account on my iPad cause me open a new one for the App Store and iTunes, and a new email address?

This article may help: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895
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