How to Delete iPhone Data Permanently

Background

When asking to delete your iPhone data permanently, you must be considering about safeguarding your privacy. In fact, there are many ways that you can delete the data on your iPhone, but referring to delete iPhone data permanently, less of them can do. Generally, most of the deleted data can be easily recovered by data recovery software. You need to deleted all of the personal information stored on your iPhone in order to prevent any unexpected incidents, no matter what circumstances below that you’re in:

* You want to resell your old iPhone prior to getting a new one.
* You need to return your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the company.
* Your iPhone is jailbroken and it’s always stuck in an infinite loop when you use the ‘Erase All Content and Settings’ to clean the data.
* You’ll have to send your device back to the factory or retail store for a repair.
* You’re an environmentalist and wish to donate your old mobile to a recycling program.
* You wish to prevent unauthorized access or unknown people from retrieving or viewing sensitive data on your device.

Method

Usually, there are 2 ways that you can use to delete iPhone data. One is to use the default erase setting built in iOS, and the other way is to use a third-party data eraser. For the sake of protecting your personal information, you're suggested to use the second way.

The default erase settings provided by Apple doesn't really erase your personal data. In fact, Apple only encrypts the whole data on your iPhone instead of erasing it. With a special and powerful recovery tool, the data can be fully recovered from your iPhone.

With a special designed third-party data eraser, all data on your iPhone can be really deleted forever. No matter which data recovery software you use, you can find nothing on it. My recommendation of the iPhone data eraser software is Wondershare SafeEraser. This tool is trustworthy and effective. You can delete iPhone data permanently with one single click. After that, you can't find anything on it, no matter which data recovery tool you use.

Wondershare SafeEraser works great for iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. Next, let's check the details of the work process.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and launch Wondershare SafeEraser. Then choose WIPE OVERALL and click on it.

Step 2. There are three levels of data erasing for your choice. You can directly use the default one (medium), which will overwrite your iPhone with junk files to ensure that the files are not recoverable, and no one knows that you've deleted all data on your iPhone. What they can recover from your iPhone are all junk files.

Tips:

1. When you choose the Low level, the software will erase and overwrite all your data with zeros to ensure that the files are not recoverable. When recovering data from your iPhone, you can only find zeros from it.
2. The High level meets the DOD 5220 - 22 M standard. When you choose this level, the data on your iPhone will be erased and overwritten by three times. You can get a better insurance.