TS3988 icloud "primary" account

When I sign into icloud there is a message saying this is not your primary account. I no longer have that "primary" email address.

Go at https://appleid.apple.com and login to verify your account settings. It is possible that your AppleID is different than your iCloud email adress and you can verify this on the AppleID webpage.

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Icloud primary account

please help - this is cracking me up!
On my iphone i have an Icloud primary account. My other icloud accounts dont have photo stream, documents and data etc. I have forgotten the password for the primary account so i cant log onto icloud from my notebook. Heres where it gets fun. Apple have no record of an account using that e-mail address even though plain as day on my phone it has an account called *****************@icloud.com !!! i have tried every possible combination i can think of to to no avail. I cant reset it as i cant remember my security questions etc and there is no rescue email option on this page.....(cant even get past security questions as i cant remember what i wrote). i need some advise on what to do. Cant delete the account because....i dont have the password for that account....its really really frustrating. Resets from manage my ID only reset my secondary icloud account. Confused...
Thank you in advance

There is a contact link.
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HT4436 How do I change my iCloud primary account?

I am trying to change my iCloud primary account and can't find where to do that I have read all the help menus but no luck.

If you mean you are trying to change the primary email account associated with your iCloud ID, you do that as explained here: Change your Apple ID. Before doing this, be sure to turn off Find My iDevice on all your iOS devices, and Find My Mac on your Mac. Then you can change the ID as desired. After changing it, you will have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out, then sign back in with the changed ID, then turn Find My iDevice back on. On a Mac, you would need to go to System Preferences>iCloud, sign out, then sign back in with the changed ID and re-enable Find My Mac.

How to change iCloud primary account without deleting ical entries on existing primary account?

Hi, I've got a bit confused and befuddled with my icloud account(s), as I had a MobileMe account before icloud and an itunes / Apple account. On my iphone and ipad, I've set up icloud on my itunes / Apple account details, which means I have a photo stream that works between these two devices. I also have something silly like 7 ical calendars on my iphone / ipad; two on an icloud account under the same log-in as my itunes, one on my gmail email account (which is the email account that is also my itunes / Apple account name) and four on a @me.com account I acquired from the old MobileMe days. Although not perfect, it's worked ok for a while, until I wanted to move photos from iphoto on my mac to my photo stream, and realised I had two photo stream accounts, and the one linked to my mac wouldn't enable photos to be seen on my iphone or ipad.
So I read a lot of stuff on here and decided I needed to change my primary icloud on my mac, ensuring it was my itunes account rather than my icloud account. I did this last night and all the diary entries in my mac ical disappeared. I then went back and deleted the itunes account details as my primary account and reinstalled the icloud details. On doing this, I realised I only have four calendars in my mac ical - and these are all on my @me.com account, none of the gmail calendars appear.
What I'd like to do, if possible, is migrate all my @me.com calendars and photo stream into one icloud account, using my itunes log-in details. This will, hopefully, mean I can cut down on the number of calendars on my iphone and ipads, ensure everything synchs across the mobile devices and my mac, and ensure I can use photo stream across all three. Can anyone suggest how I can do this please?

When you delete an iCloud account from a device, that has no effect on the iCloud accounts on other devices or the content in that iCloud account. You are just deleting that account from that particular device.
Her content will still be in iCloud.

Changing iCloud primary account on iPad 2

I'm trying to change my primary iCloud account on my iPad, I have read previous directions that say to just hit the delete button in settings etc, however my primary account doesn't have a delete option :( ???
Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
You'll find your primary account at settings > iCloud, the delete button can be seen at the bottom of the page by scrolling down.

Change iCloud primary account, change iCloud primary account

I had to set up a new Apple ID, added an additional email account and used that for my apple id. Now iCloud keeps bringing up the old original id name as the primary and I want to change it to the new one. I know if I put in the old password to go with that original email, apple is going to say I need a new password (because I have reset it). How can I cancel the original email address and make iCloud recognize the new email address and password. It seems to be an endless cycle I can't get out of. I keep having to change my password because of these 2 email accounts not recognizing each other.

If you mean you are trying to change the primary email account associated with your iCloud ID, you do that as explained here: Change your Apple ID. Before doing this, be sure to turn off Find My iDevice on all your iOS devices, and Find My Mac on your Mac. Then you can change the ID as desired. After changing it, you will have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Sign Out, then sign back in with the changed ID, then turn Find My iDevice back on. On a Mac, you would need to go to System Preferences>iCloud, sign out, then sign back in with the changed ID and re-enable Find My Mac.

TS3988 icloud email account? what is it? how is it different from my icloud account?

I have a MacAir and an iPad. When I first got the laptop, my calendar and the iPad were synching automagically. Then one day, I tried to send a photo from iPhoto and iPhoto wanted to send it through the cloud, not my mailer. What's that about, by the way. And then I must have done something and the synching between machines stopped. Any ideas?

See http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2617. (Your iCoud ID is an Apple ID, and you reset the password the same way you reset the password for any Apple ID.)

Can have two iCloud different account in the same device?

Can I have a two different iCloud account in the same device?

Sorry, not Documents. I quote:
'iCloud Bookmarks, Photo Stream, Documents in the Cloud, Backup (iOS), Back to My Mac (OS X), and Find My iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac can only be used with one iCloud account at a time (the "primary" account).'
The only thing you can do would be to create a second user account on your Mac and create a new iCloud primary account on that. Fast user switching would allow you to have both user accounts running at the same time and switch between them very quickly, but uploading documents created in one account into the other is more complicated - you would have to save a copy into the Shared folder in Users so that it was accessble by the other account.

I have 2 iCloud accounts. Can I delete one account so I can make use of additional space I purchased for the secondary account? Also iPhoto seems to only connect to the primary account? How do I send files to the secondary account?

I have 2 iCloud accounts. Can I delete one account so I can make use of additional space I purchased for the secondary account? Also iPhoto seems to only connect to the primary account? How do I send files to the secondary account?

Both accounts are completely independent from each other. In order to use the space that you have purchased for your secondary account, you must change it to become your primary account. Yes, as you said, services like photo stream only work with the primary account. Unfortunately, there is no comfortable way to just transfer data from one account to another one, but you can do it via a third party application e.g. via Dropbox: e.g. for photos: photos stored with your current primary account > manual transfer to dropbox > after you made your secondary account to the primary account, transfer the photos back to your new primary account etc.

I have 2 iCloud accounts. 3 devices use one of them as a primary account; my iPhone uses the other as a primary account so I can't stream photos from iPhone etc. What to do?

I have 2 iCloud accounts. 3 devices use one of them as a primary account; my iPhone uses the other as a primary account so I can't stream photos from iPhone etc. What to do?

Sorry, yes indeed you can do that, I thought you wanted to keep the accounts the way they are now and also share photo stream between all devices, which of course is not possible.
In order to login to the account you are currently logged in to as a secondary account, as a primary account, and vice versa, you will need to delete both accounts from that device and then log back into them with the correct account as a primary (settings > iCloud) and the correct account as a secondary (settings > mail, contacts, calendars).

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I am trying to change my secondary icloud to become my primary account. When I try I keep getting a message to first delete my icloud from internet accounts then log back in. I just cannot seem to figure out how to do this. Any ideas?

I am trying to change my secondary icloud to my primary icloud. I've read several posts but can't seem to get any of those to work. It keeps telling me to change this I need to delete my icloud from internet accounts and sign back in. How do I do this though? When I go onto internet accounts, I don't see where I can manage this. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

To change a secondary account you have to delete/sign out of both accounts. After doing so, you can sign back in with the secondary account ID in System Preferences>iCloud and it will become the primary account. To delete an account from System Preferences>Internet Accounts, select it on the left sidebar, then click the "-" icon at the bottom to delete it.

ICloud on MacBookPro not my primary account?

I'm in a mess. Why am I getting this mesage when I click on tyhe iCloud icon in System Preferences? I don't seem to be able to make it my primary account because if I attempt to log out the darn thing wants to remove email, calendars, Uncle Tom Cobbly and all!
In the old fashioned days of Mobile Me, I had by Apple account running perfectly and my wife could sync our calendars etc on her iMac with no problems...
Now, it's all gone awal... I did purchase an iPhone 4 six months ago and I'm wondering if that's become the Primary account.
So how do I go about reversing this without loosing every business contact and appointment I have on my MacBook Pro?

The first iCloud account you enter, in System Preferences>iCloud, is the primary account and will sync calendars etc. You can enter a second account at System Preferences>Mail, Contacts & Calendars to access another account's email but it will not sync your calendars etc. Syncing can take place only to one account.
If you are not signed in to the account you want to use you need to sign out. Before doing this you can uncheck each facility in the list, whereupon you will be asked if you want to save your data on your Mac.
When you sign into a different account syncing will take place from its calendars etc.
Only calendars and contacts listed under 'iCloud' are affected by this. Data under 'On My Mac' is not affected and is not syncing.

I am having problems making new email/icloud address primary account.

How do I make newer email address/icloud address primary account? I'm not being allowed to do this when I go to system preferences/icloud. Only old defunct email address from job where I no longer work shows up. I no longer have access to this email and I want to delete this account.

I have done this and keeps saying the same thing. I have even tried setting my account through Microsoft exchange but no luck

HT204053 I started using iCloud on all my Apple products before MobileMe shut down, setting up a new ID and password to do that. When MobileMe moved to iCloud, it became my primary account for iCloud and is interfering with everything I had done before.

I started using iCloud on all my Apple products, using a new password and ID, before MobileMe shut down. Apparently I shouldn't have done that, because when MobileMe moved to iCloud, it automatically became my primary account and took over everything I had previously set up on my iCloud account. I would like to eliminate the MobileMe account, but I can't find a way to do it. Anyone have any experience with this? It's making me very frustrated with iCloud.

The primary account is the one signed into in System Preferences>iCloud (or on an iPhone Settings>iCloud). If it isn't the account you want to use, simply sign out and the sign back in with the required account. On signing out your data will be removed from your Mac but not from the iCloud server.
If you want to you can sign in with the other account in System Preferences>Mail, Contacts & Calendars - you can sync that account's email, contacts and calendars and they will appear alongside the equivalent data in the primary account.
The main differences are that the secondary account's email will not be 'pushed' but will be checked periodically, and the secondary account cannot use PhotoStream.

TS3988 icloud "primary" account

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