
When you press either the “Delete Account” button on an iOS Device, or the “Sign Out” button on a Mac, the following alerts will be the same. To do this on a Mac, go into System Preferences and choose iCloud, the press the “Sign Out” button… On an iOS Device, go into the Settings app and scroll down until you see iCloud. To delete the iCloud account from the device, just press the big red “Delete Account” button. In that case, you’ll need to change the email address associated with your Apple ID, which I will be discussing in next week’s article.

You are both getting frustrated that your contacts are disappearing because you each delete and re-add them and iCloud pushes the changes to both of you. Odds are that your content got merged, and all of your personal information is mixed together. If you are using the same Apple ID as a family member for iCloud, several different outcomes could result from this.

Check back every Saturday for a new how-to:įirst off, before we begin and actually discuss how to safely delete an iCloud account, we should discuss the different scenarios as to why you might need to delete your iCloud account off of your devices. This is the first entry in our new, weekly how-to’s column.
