How to Erase Your iPhone's Data Before You Sell it

How to Erase Your iPhone's Data Before You Sell it

 

        How to Erase Your iPhone's Data Before You Sell it

Before you sell your iPhone, follow these simple steps to wipe its data.

You are about to sell or to give away your old iphone. Wait a second, the first thing you'll want to do is make sure they won't have access to any of your personal data. your whole life is on that phone! You wouldn't want to just hand over your phone with all your e-mails, contacts, music, photos, videos, and other personal stuff on it, would you? Probably not.
Fortunately, iOS makes it very easy to wipe all your data off
Before selling your iphone, follow these simple steps to make sure that every trace of you and your life has been wiped from the phone:

1. Make a Backup of Your iPhone's Data

If your getting a new iPhone you will want to make sure that your old one is backed up so that when you restore the data to your new phone, everything will be current, and you won't have to start from scratch.
Depending on which version of iOS your using and your sync preference settings, you will either backup to your computer or the iCloud service.
Currently the iCloud service will backup almost everything that you need to restore your iPhone, in some cases some apps may not support backup to the iCloud.In particular, some old phones such as the original iPhone and iPhone 3G don't have access to the iCloud service so we'll backup using the iPhone's docking cable.
1. Connect your iPhone to the computer you normally sync it with.
2. Open iTunes and click on your iPhone from the left-hand navigation pane.
3. From the iPhone's page on the right side of the screen, click the "Back up to this computer" check box.
4. Right-click the iPhone from the window pane on the left side of the screen and click "Back Up" from the pop-up menu.
Note: If you have purchased some items on your phone and haven't transferred these purchases to your computer yet, right-click the iPhone and choose "Transfer Purchases" to transfer the purchases prior to backup.
Make sure the back up process succeeds before performing the following steps:

2. Erase All of Your iPhone's Data And Settings

as you've decided that nobody  have access to your personal data you'll need to wipe the phone to erase your sensitive data and personal information. Follow these instructions to clear the data off of your phone.
1. Tap the settings from the home screen.
2. Tap the "General" settings menu item.
3. Choose the "Reset" menu item.
4. Tap on the "Erase All Content and Settings" menu item.
The process can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, so it's probably something that you don't want to do while your waiting in line to trade your phone in.
If you use any apps that allow you to authenticate based on your iPhone's unique hardware ID, you should visit the apps websites to unlink the phone to your account. You can link your new phone to your account after you install the apps on your new iPhone.