How to Delete iPhone Data Before Selling

Why need to delete your iPhone data for selling

Nowadays, people use cell phones more and more frequently in their daily lives. A cell phone even knows you more than your family. It knows who you're talking with, what you're talking about, where you are, your account information, your passwords and many other personal information. When you plan to sell your phone, you never who will get it and what he will do with it. Therefore, you need to deleted everything on your iPhone before selling it, for the sake of your privacy.

How to delete your iPhone data for selling

Backup your old iPhone first: Before deleting your old iPhone data, make sure that you've backed up the data that you still want to keep, because the deletion you're going to perform is permanent. No one can recover any data from it with any recovery software. Only in this way can your privacy be protected safely. You can use iTunes or iCloud to backup the data on your old iPhone, or directly transfer it to your new phone with a certain data transfer tool like Wondershare MobileGo for iOS (if you still choose a new iPhone) or Wondershare MobileGo for Android (if your phone is an Android one).

Delete data on the iPhone for selling: Now, you can start deleting all data on your old iPhone. To ensure that the deleted data cannot be recovered by any data recovery software, you need to choose a reliable tool which can finish this work perfectly and won't remember any data by itself. There are a few iPhone data eraser apps on the market, but almost all of them can't wipe the data completely. They can only clean the data under their own directory. The most secure way is using PC-end software. It always can do the cleaning work better. Here my recommendation is Wondershare SafeEraser for iOS. This software can smash everything on the iPhone, and even the government recovery facility can't retrieve anything on it. It's totally safe and easy to use.

Step 1. Get your iPhone connected to the computer where Wondershare SafeEraser for iOS is installed.
Step 2. Launch Wondershare SafeEraser for iOS and choose the option of erase all data and settings to begin the data deletion. All data contains contacts, messages, call history, photos, videos, notes, apps, browser history, bookmarks, account info, passwords and other personal data.
Step 3. The process of data erasing will take you a little while. Keep your iPhone connected during the whole course.

When it's complete. Your iPhone gets started with a clean slate now.

Unlink/Unregister your iPhone: The last step you need to do is to unregister your iPhone from Apple's website so that it's no longer linked to your Apple ID. It's also a simple work.

Step 1. Go to the Apple's website here: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
Step 2. Log in with your Apple ID and password.
Step 3. Find edit products and click on it.
Step 4. Click on the x to the right of the product.
Step 5. Click Unregister, and that's all.

Stop all accounts linking to your iPhone: Make a list of all your accounts like iCloud, Dropbox, Pandora, etc. Stop them all from linking to your iPhone. Then take the SIM card out of your iPhone and get it ready for selling on eBay or other sale places.