Sign out of iCloud on your devices

If you want to stop using iCloud on one of your devices, learn how to sign out and what happens when you sign out.

What happens when you sign out of iCloud on your device

You can sign out of iCloud to stop using iCloud and its related services on your device. These services are listed below. Before signing out, make sure that you’re comfortable having these services turned off. If you only want to stop using some iCloud features, you can change your iCloud settings instead of signing out of iCloud.

  • Apple Pay, Apple Cash, and Apple Card1

  • Find My

  • Game Center

  • Home app to control your HomeKit devices

  • iCloud Backup

  • iCloud Drive

  • iCloud Keychain

  • iCloud Mail

  • iCloud Notes

  • iCloud Photos

  • iCloud Shared Photo Library

  • Siri Shortcuts

  • Voice Memos

  • Shared Albums

  • Messages in iCloud

  • Reminders

  • Shared Notes

  • Shared Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents

  • Updates to your contacts, calendars, reminders, bookmarks, and Safari tabs

  • Continuity features like Handoff, Universal Clipboard, and Auto Unlock with your Apple Watch

  • App data for any third-party apps that you've installed that use iCloud

When you sign out, any information stored in iCloud remains available in iCloud. That information will be removed from your device unless you choose to keep a copy of that data when prompted. To help prevent data loss, make sure that you have an up-to-date iCloud backup, and if you recently made changes to content synced with iCloud, wait before signing out, or check iCloud.com or another device to make sure that your changes have synced.

If you have iCloud+ and you sign out of iCloud on your device, you lose access to iCloud Private Relay, Hide My Email, HomeKit Secure Video support, and custom email domain on that device.2

How to keep using the App Store, iMessage, and FaceTime on your device

When you sign out of iCloud, you're also automatically signed out of the App Store, iMessage, and FaceTime.

Sign out on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Vision Pro

  1. Open the Settings app, then tap your name.

  2. Scroll down to the bottom.

  3. Tap Sign Out.

    The Sign Out button is at the bottom of your Apple Account settings in iOS.

  4. Enter your Apple Account password and tap Turn Off. Forgot your Apple Account password?

  5. Turn on the data that you want to keep a copy of on your device.

  6. Tap Sign Out.

  7. Tap Sign Out again to confirm that you want to sign out of iCloud.

Learn what to do if you can't tap your name or you can't sign out due to restrictions

Sign out on your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Settings.

  2. Click your name, then click Sign Out.

    The Sign Out button is at the bottom of your Apple Account Settings in macOS.

  3. If you want to a keep a copy of your iCloud data on your Mac before you sign out, make sure that you select the appropriate checkboxes. Then click Keep a Copy.

  4. In macOS Ventura or earlier, if you want to keep a copy of your Safari passwords on your Mac, click Keep on This Mac.

Sign out on your Apple Watch

When you sign out of iCloud on the iPhone that's paired with your Apple Watch, you're automatically signed out of iCloud on your Apple Watch.

If you set up an Apple Watch for a family member, learn how to unpair and erase that Apple Watch.

Sign out on your Apple TV

  1. Go to Settings.

  2. Select Users and Accounts.

    • For the default account, select your name, then choose Remove User from Apple TV.

    • For additional accounts, select your name, select iCloud, then choose Sign Out.

Sign out of iCloud for Windows

  1. Open iCloud for Windows.

  2. Click Sign out.

  1. Your Apple Cash and Apple Card accounts are linked to your Apple Account. They can't be transferred to a different Apple Account or accessed by a different Apple Account.

  2. Not all features are available in all countries or regions.

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