How To Transfer Icloud Data To New Icloud Account

Q: I was reading your article on Moving from a shared iCloud to individual accounts, which looks like what I want to do. However, volition this transfer all of my apps, pictures and calendars to my new iCloud account?

– Stephen

A: Unfortunately there is no way to automatically transfer data betwixt two iCloud accounts on the back terminate, so when yous create a new iCloud account, it substantially begins as an empty shell. Transferring your information into information technology must be done from a computer or iOS device.

Personal information such every bit contacts, calendars, bookmarks, and reminders would need to be re-uploaded to the new iCloud account from your iOS device or your Mac or PC. If you're a Mac user, the Calendar and Contacts apps in Bone Ten Mountain King of beasts are the easiest mode to practise this, only it tin be washed from an iOS device also. When disabling or deleting your current iCloud account, only be sure to choose the choice to proceed these items on your device; any data in these categories institute on your device will automatically exist synced up to your new iCloud account once you've created it and signed in on your device.

Your Photograph Streams, including Shared Photo Streams, volition just be removed from your device once you've signed out of your one-time iCloud account. If you're using iPhoto or Aperture on a Mac or the iCloud Control Console for Windows on a PC these photos should accept already been downloaded to your computer. You can later manually push these back into your Photo Stream and copy whatever Shared Photograph Streams using these apps, or just start over. Since the Photo Stream isn't designed to exist a permanent repository of your photos—merely a maximum of 1,000 photos or 30 days of photos are retained—you should be saving them on your Mac or PC anyway. Note that local photos stored in your Camera Roll on your iOS devices or synced from iTunes are unrelated to iCloud and will be untouched.

iCloud Documents & Information is a special instance. This data will exist removed when you delete your iCloud business relationship from your iOS device, however the bear on of this will depend on the specific applications that you're using on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch on. Applications that provide local storage and simply sync their information with iCloud should exist able to push that data back up again, while other appellations may rely on iCloud completely. In the latter case, if at all possible y'all should export your data from these apps and save it elsewhere until you take setup the new iCloud account. This is unfortunately an app-by-app state of affairs so there's no standard answer as to how this will exist handled, although many apps do provide the option for both iCloud-based and local storage, so only ensure that any of import information such equally saved games or documents are in a non-iCloud storage area.

If yous're using iCloud for email, this is a peculiarly special case. Your electronic mail is not stored locally on your iOS device, and deleting or disabling your iCloud business relationship will simply delete the mail from your device, although it will however remain on the iCloud servers. If you desire to migrate your electronic mail to a new iCloud business relationship, y'all volition demand to use a Mac or PC and setup both the old and new iCloud accounts in an awarding such every bit Apple Mail. From there, yous should be able to copy your existing messages over by dragging and dropping them from the old account to the new one.

Lastly, purchased items such as apps, music, and other media content aren't actually role of an iCloud account per se, just are rather associated with an iTunes Shop account; although both oft use the same Apple ID and password, they are technically two split accounts on the dorsum end. This means that these purchased items will remain associated with your original iTunes Shop business relationship and unfortunately Apple tree does not provide whatever manner to migrate purchased items to a different iTunes Store account. The skillful news, withal, is that you can go on to utilize and access these purchased items under your existing iTunes Store business relationship—an iOS device or reckoner running iTunes can be associated with more than one iTunes Shop account, and on an iOS device your iTunes Store and iCloud accounts practice not need to exist the same.