This has been one of my most ask questions during upgrade time.  How do I remove my iCloud account from my old iPhone or iPad.  Users who are upgrading to new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus will need to remove the old iCloud account from their old iPhone.  Especially, anyone who will be selling or giving their older device to someone else.  Even if this is someone you completely trust you will still want to remove the iCloud account.  Because if you don’t all your photos will be mixed up, you will get all their photos and videos on your device.  This can be somewhat annoying to say the least.  When you are trying to find a certain photo and you have to dig through 500 selfies of your daughter or son.  So, is that enough convincing.

How to Delete iCloud account from your iPhone/iPad Running iOS 8:

Open Settings > Tap on iCloud

Access iCloud on iPhone in iOS 8

Scroll way down and tap on Sign out

Sign out from iCloud in iOS 8

Tap on Sign out in the alert message

iCloud Sign out Alert Messsage

Be sure if you want to keep your contacts you choose keep on my iPad.  Otherwise, they will be deleted too and you won’t be able to get them back.

Now, you’ll see the Delete Account alert.

Remove iCloud Account from iPhone and iPad in iOS 8

The iCloud account should be deleted now if you followed the process above.  Feel free to leave a comment or question in our comments section below.  While you are here please check out some of our other tips and tricks here.