iCloud: delete connection with iPad / iPhone

To prevent the automatic synchronization between iCloud and your iPhone / iPad, you have to delete the connection. This is necessary if you want to sell your iDevice, for example. We will show you how to make the settings.

Remove connection between iPhone and iCloud

• To do this, tap "Settings" on the device in question and then "iCloud".
• Now follow the red button "Delete account" and confirm the warning with "Delete". This deletes all photos and documents that have previously been synchronized via iCloud locally on the device.
• In the next step, you decide on contacts, calendars, reminders and bookmarks, whether you want to keep them on iPad or delete them from iPad. However, the irritating name does not mean that you delete your entire iCloud account - this is basically only possible on the iCloud website.
• The command disconnects the device. By logging in this or a new device in the cloud again, the data is available again as usual.

If you would like to use another cloud provider, you will find a comparison of 5 major providers in another article.