How to Better Erase an iPhone When Selling/Repairing

We knew thatrefurbished iPhones have their previous owner ’s dataon it , but how do you protect yourself when Apple wo n’t go through the trouble of pass over phone out before passing them on ? By unsyncing everything , then laden it up with medicine and videos until the phone is full to overwrite the old information that was there . Does this work ? We thought the contacts , calendars , SMS and phone calls were store on the OS partition , not the media partition where videos and music files go .

https://gizmodo.com/refurbished-iphones-might-still-have-previous-owners-pe-392019

If you ’re transmit in your iPhone for repairs at the Apple Store because it ’s broken , you might not have the selection of pass over your data like this . It ’s not really THAT great a method either , but will be able-bodied to hold on the next possessor from nonchalantly recover data . Basically , just black market a restore and hope the next guy who has your phone is n’t nosy . [ SecurosisviaTUAW ]

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