What You Need to Do Before Selling Your iPhone

Every year when Apple releases the new iPhone, millions of iPhone users will sell their old iPhone to get the latest one. And many people will buy the second hand iPhone with lower price. This is the circle of using iPhone. Many Apple fans think it is the coolest thing to have the latest iPhone among their friends. They will say "Hey, look at my iPhone!". That's OK. However, there will be one thing you need to know that the data on your iPhone will be used by others after you sell your iPhone if you don't erase it permanently. You may say how can they do that. Yes, they can do that if you just delete the content and settings on your iPhone without using professional way to wipe them. In this blog, I will share with you some tips before selling your iPhone to protect your personal data on it.

Apple provides you the optioin to erase all the data on your iPhone. Of course you can use it. But you know there is software that can recover deleted data on your iPhone. You can find them on google easily. However, if you erase your iPhone with professional iPhone Data Eraser software, they can not do that ever.

Here is the right steps you need to do before selling your iPhone:

1. Backup Your iPhone to your iTunes or iCloud

You know you can make a backup file with iTunes or iCloud easily for your iPhone. I recommend iTunes. You just need to connect your iPhone to your computer and run iTunes. Make a backup file with it for your iPhone. It will backup all the data and settings of your iPhone. You can easily restore your iPhone with it after you get your new iPhone. I don't recommend you to use iCloud because it needs WiFi and if your storage is not big enough, you need to pay for it. The default storage is 5GB.

2. Recover Deleted Data You Want to Keep

Before selling your iPhone, use some iPhone data recovery software to scan your iPhone and check if there is any data you want to get back, such as photos, text messages, contacts, notes that you deleted before. You can recover them easily with this software and keep them on your computer for backup. You can learn how to recover deleted iMessages here.

3. Reset Data and logout all accounts on iPhone

You can easily delete contents and settings on your iPhone. You need also log out all the account you keep on your iPhone before selling it. This will make sure others can't your account info.

4. Delete Everything on iPhone Permanently

After you delete all the contents and settings on iPhone, you need to use professional iPhone Data Eraser to wipe all the data on your iPhone again to prevent others to recover the data from it like what we do in the second step above. This software will fill up your iPhone and erase your iPhone 3 times with the latest technology. No one can get any data from your iPhone after we do that. 

After doing the 4 steps above, your iPhone will be sold safely. No one will get your personal data from your iPhone. Enjoy your latest iPhone! Thanks for reading, if you have any ideas about this, please leave a comment.