Why can't I delete an iCloud account, I think we should have that option, this is ridiculous.

I worry about my information floating around some server through Icloud when I don't want it there. Apple should provide a way to completely delete an icloud account from everywhere - devices, the web etc. If I had known that I wouldn't have this option, I would have never signed up for one considering all the trouble icloud has caused me. It keeps losing my contacts etc. Am I the only one that is annoyed and frustrated by this?
I can delete an account from my iphone 5s but not from the internet. ***?

You can't delete the actual account. In part this is probably to prevent the address from becoming available again and someone else grabbing it and pretending to be you. You can go to the website and delete all your data there so that it's empty, and then just ignore it.

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Delete my iCloud account because I no longer have that e-mail address.

How do I delete my iCloud account without a password? I set-up iCloud with my last jobs email and now I can't delete the account. The password I am using is wrong and I can't reset the password because it tells me my birthdate is incorrect.

You can't delete it without the correct password. If you need help resetting the password, contact Apple for assistance by going to https://expresslane.apple.com, then click More Products and Services>Apple ID>Other Apple ID Topics>Lost or forgotten Apple ID password.

I need to change my iCloud email address. I changed it for my Apple id but I can't log out of iCloud to change it there. Find my iPad is activated so I can't delete my iCloud account. I don't have the email address the iCloud login has anymore.

I need to change my iCloud email address. I changed it for my Apple id but I can't log out of iCloud to change it there. Find my iPad is activated so I can't delete my iCloud account. I don't have the email address the iCloud login has anymore so I can't have the password sent there. To sum it up, iCloud has an old email for the account log-in. I don't remember the password for the old email. I have Find My iPad activated so the iCloud account cannot be deleted. And I am already logged out of iTunes & App Store.

If you mean that Find My Phone is asking for a password to a different Apple ID to your current Apple IDand that ID is a previous version of your current ID, not an entirely different one.
This feature has been introduced to make stolen phones useless to those that have stolen them.
However it can also arise when the user has changed their Apple ID details with Apple and not made the same changes to their iCloud account/Find My Phone on their device before upgrading to iOS 7, or if you restore from a previous back up made before you changed your details and some other circumstances.
The only solution is to change your Apple ID back to its previous state with Apple at My Apple ID using your current password, you don’t need access to this address if it’s previously been used with your Apple ID, once you have saved these details enter the password as requested on your device and then turn off "find my phone" and delete the account from your device. It may take a short while to remove the account.
You should then change your Apple ID back to its current state, save it once again and then log back in using your current Apple ID. Finally, turn "find my phone" back on once again.
This article provides more information about Activation Lock.

Why can't I access my icloud account on iPad

Why can't I access my icloud account with iPad mini ?

On your iPhone iCloud is accessed automatically when you use the iPhone, I.e., contacts syncing, calendars syncing iCloud documents accessed, backups made, etc.
To enable iCloud functionality go to Settings > iCloud.

HT204053 can I set up my icloud account remotely or do I have to have the ipad?

Can I set up my icloud account remotley or do I have to have my ipad?

Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account. You *should* then be able to enter another ID/password. Is this exactly where you had your problem?

How can I completely delete my iCloud account?

Hi,
I had a MobileMe account that I transformed into an iCloud account. Let's call it [email protected]
But I've also created another iCloud account, let's call it [email protected] It's still active but no longer used.
Today I've downloaded Messages for Mac, and when I want to add my Gmail address as an address that can be reached for messages, I get the following error: http://cl.ly/2b2r0q0W123Q3q10003u.
Fair enough, but now how can I delete my iCloud account using the Gmail address in order to use it whith my other account?
Thanks!

As your Gmail address is an Apple ID of itself you cannot associate it with another Apple ID. I'm afraid you will have to find another way round this: you could set up another email account to associate with the @me.com ID and if you want, forward messages to that on to the Gmail account.

How can I create a new iCloud account on a preowned phone (with that persons account signed on) without deleting their whole account entirely (on all devices)? Totally confused, please help:-(

My mum has upgraded to the iPhone 5, she has given me her 4S with a new contract etc. the problem is all her contacts are still on here and calendar dates etc . All from her iCloud account. I have my own account but I don't know how to get my phone on that without deleting her iCloud account entirely and from all devices and her new phone. Please help, I'm probably confusing things more but I really need some help

Just delete her iCloud account from (now) your iPhone 4s - doing so will delete it from your phone and your phone only. It will do nothing to any of her devices with her iCloud account set up on them.
Then login in with your iCloud account login to set up your iCloud account on that iPhone 4S.
If you want to set up the iPhone 4s with a clean slate, just delete her iCloud account, then go into general settings, under the reset tab and select "erase all content and settings". Then run through the activation and setup dialogues with your own information.

How do i delete my icloud account if i don't have the iphone anymore?

How do i delete or deactivate my icloud account on an iphone that i no longer own...I sold it to someone, but they said that i need to delete my icloud account..im kinda new to this stuff and don't have a clue what to do, can anyone help me with this or give me some advice? thank you

In a web browser, log in to your www.icloud.com account. Under the find my devices, you can erase the device, then delete it from your list of devices. That will effectively disable Activation Lock on the device.
see http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4515

How do I delete my ICloud account if I no longer have an Iphone5c?

My wife bought me the iPhone 5c and I ended up not liking it and took it back for a samsung galaxy 3. My phone isn't accepting texts sent from anyone with an iPhone as my number is registering as having an iPhone in iMessage. Please help! The only thing I can think of is if I delete my iCloud account it will fix this big???

Deleting your iCloud account won't fix this. If you registered your device with a support profile, try going to https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do and unregister it. Also, you can try changing the password associated with the Apple ID that you were using for iMessage.

Why can't I get my icloud account to register my new email on my iPad. I have managed to change it with iTunes and Apple.

I bought an iPad and opened up an iCloud account now iCloud won't register my new email address on my iPad! Why?

Okay, got it working!
My process was pretty straightforward (of course, everything is, in hindsight):
(1) Go to my user library folder
(2) Do a spotlight search for the word "mail"
(3) Delete something that looks like it might be related to/possibly interfering with Mail's operation
(4) Try Mail
I repeated the above process a couple of times and poof, Mail started to add my accounts! First, my Gmail account, and then, after disabling and re-enabling my iCloud account inside System Preferences > iCloud, my iCloud account too!
The file I believe was the lynchpin was located here:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail
Give that a shot if you can't get your iCloud/Gmail email to show up in Apple Mail 7.1 (1827) under OS X 10.9.1, despite the accounts seemingly adding succesfully in System Preferences.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This may delete mail you have stored locally, so please do not attempt if you store your email locally (i.e. POP email setups). I think for IMAP setups (e.g. iCloud & Gmail) this is just deleting the cached versions of the emails, so they'll just get rebuilt once the email is downloaded from the server again.

TS4147 I have duplicate contacts on my iPhone, but there are no duplicates in ICloud or in Outlook. Can I just delete the iCloud account on my phone and then let it refresh my contacts?

I have duplicate contacts on my iPhone, but there are not duplicates in Outlook on my PC or in iCloud. Can I just remove my iCloud on my account and recreate it so that the contacts refresh?

Be sure that you don't have syncing turned on in iTunes, otherwise you'll get data from both iCloud and the iTunes connection.

Why can't I downgrade my iCloud account

I no longer want to continue with my iCloud account T £14 a year. When I log into iCloud settings the option to downgrade to free is greyed out. Help..

You can cancel an iCloud storage upgrade but only within 15 days of buying:
Apple seem to have made this as difficult as possible. You may be able to do this using http://expresslane.apple.com - Click on 'More products and services', then 'iCloud', 'Account and setup' then 'This topic is not listed'. Explain the situation in the box provided and wait for a response - include a phone number. However you may find you cannot proceed without entering a hardware serial number which is still eligible for AppleCare.
In that event you will need to phone them directly, using the Apple Online Store number given at the bottom of this page. The first person you speak to may tell you to do it from the iCloud website but this is not possible. Politely insist on escalating the issue to a more senior person and eventually you should be able to get through to someone who can deal with this (you may have to wait for them to call you back) - you will be asked security questions and for part of your credit card number to identify yourself.
If it is more than 15 days since you purchased the storage you cannot cancel it for a refund; you can downgrade your plan as from your next renewal date. Please see
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm12eecb08e7

Why can't I create a iCloud account

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You can create an account on another device or computer, and then use it
on your iPhone.
You cannot unlink the iPhone from its previous account. The owner of the iCloud
account to which the iPhone is linked must remove the account before you can
use your iCloud account on that iPhone.
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Why can't I activate my iCloud account?

I have fully upgraded Macbook, iMac & iPhone. I cannot activate my account because I have received none of the "verification emails" from Apple. My email address has not been verified despite Apple ID\Password working otherwise. I have tried everything for many hours - it would be good to receive some support particularly as the MacBook was only bought a few days ago. Apple Support on-line advice leads nowhere and I can't access a phone call or chat line for advice.

Have you requested that Apple send you a new verification email.

How can I Migrate/Split itunes/icloud account for a large family now that they have family sharing

Ok, now that Apple has finally come out with family sharing I need to get things sorted out and I think it is going to be a mess. I have 6 family members (my spouse and 4 children) all sharing/using one itunes account. For parental reasons this made perfect sense. Now with the the advent of family sharing and such we have alot of sorting and migrating to do and I am very unsure how to go about it. Here is what we have.
Myself - I have a 64GB iPad 3 and a 64GB iPhone 5
Spouse - 64GB iPhone 5
Children - x4 16GB iPhone 5C (pink, blue, green, and a yellow)
We have had one itunes account now for several years, we used to have x4 16GB iphone 4's and a 16GB iPod touch 4 so we needed it to be shared at the time. We all have different Game Center ID's and Facetime/iMessages are all setup to the phone numbers (aside from mine which also uses the itunes e-mail). We currently have 1 upgraded icloud account with 200GB of storage on it (love the new tiers). So here are the questions.
1) How do I go about using and isolating all the devices so they can all use the iCloud storage? Right now if I try and setup backups by device under the what to backup there is no simple "Full Backup" option, they have all the categories separated. I cannot backup my daughters contacts without forcing a merging of them and so on. Same thing with Documents and Data. Would I need to setup a different iCloud account for each device now?
2) iTunes Music/App purchases. Now that they have a family sharing function I am assuming it would be a good time to separate all the devices (aside from my personal iPad/iPhone). If I understand correctly we need to setup a new itunes account for each and link them with family sharing, does this then allow us to disperse/move items from a singular to the multiple account (at least a one time option to move around) or would it simply be shared off the original account? My daughter for example will be 18 next summer and as such no longer under our care. How do we move her items to her account? She has a lot of purchased Music. Now keep in mind I am talking about an account for someone who was 12 when she had her first device and as such needed to be under her parents.
I just want to state that repurchasing things is NOT an option, and to be frank, according to Canadian laws pertaining to *licensing* we actually own the product if we paid for it and have the right to transfer the ownership thereof. This issue went through the courts regarding used copies of OEM editions of Microsoft Windows several years ago and they closed the legal *license* vs ownership separation.

Go to appleid.apple.com to manage the ID, sign in and select to the Name, ID and Email Addresses section, then change the birth date on the bottom right. At the present time you may not be able to enter the correct birth date, but others have had success changing the year to 2000, or the date to 1/1/2001, both of which will have child ID status.

Why can't I delete an iCloud account, I think we should have that option, this is ridiculous.

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