Settings - iCloud - Apple ID is greyed?

Background: Newly I changed my Apple-ID from one name to an other. When I then used app store in my iPhone it did not work. After changeing the apple-id in settings - shop it worked again.
Here is the problem: How do I change the apple-id for iCloud? When I try to change it, the old apple-id shows up in grey text as is impossible to change. The password however, still works to change. The only way to move forward is to tap "ok", and a message "wrong id or password" appears.
How to fix this "little" problem? (fact: I really need to sync the calenders so I know what to do and when....)
/Rickard.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
In order to change your Apple ID or password for your iCloud account on your iOS device, you need to delete the account from your iOS device first, then add it back using your updated details. (Settings > iCloud, scroll down and hit "Delete Account")
Providing you are simply updating your existing details and not changing to another account, when you delete your account, all the data that is synced with iCloud will also be deleted from the device (but not from iCloud), but will be synced back to your device when you login again.

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I've to say that I bought an iPad and an iPhone when I had a laptop but few weeks after that the laptop died and now I am alone with my iOS devices.
I can add that I'm the lazy kind of user so I never jailbreaked my devices...I've no real need...not hacky. I buy things ONLY from the apple store...what a lazy ***.
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