How to Reset Your iPhone or iPad? If you are selling your iPhone or iPad, then deleting all the Personal data on it is a good option for you before selling it to someone other.
Maybe you are planning to sell your iPhone or iPad and want to delete all your personal files, or maybe you have become a victim of theft and want to clean up anything important data from the device.
For this, executing a factory reset is the fastest way to delete everything and start again.
There is a last option to reset your iPhone or iPad and one you should only take in exceptional circumstances such as if you are selling the device or whatever problem you’re having with the device.
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Before you factory reset your iPhone or iPad, make sure that you will back up all your data that you want and put it on iCloud or iTunes.
The Apple device is encrypted from the box. This means that deleted files are not simply displayed as free space, but they are completely removed from your device and no software can recover deleted files.
Apple has support back up of your iOS device with some methods, and these include via iCloud or iTunes.
To backup, your iPhone and iPad on iCloud, connect to your Wi-Fi network and go to Settings, iCloud and iCloud Backup.
After that Click on Back Up Now, your files will be stored on your iCloud account and linked to your Apple ID. which you can restore whenever you want.
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How to Reset Your iPhone
- Go to Settings > General > Reset.
- Now you will see several options. To reset your iPhone or iPad, the option you want to select is called Erase All Content and Settings.
- You may see a window that asks you to update your iCloud backup before deleting. You should click on Back Up Then Erase.
- If you don’t want to update your iCloud backup, then just click on Erase Now.
- You will see the same option once more and will have to enter your passcode. Once you do these things, you will be able to reset your iPhone or iPad.
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How to Reset iPad using iTunes
- Connect your iPad to a PC or Mac and open iTunes.
- Wait for the device’s icon to show up on iTunes. It will appear below the play/ pause button. Once it open, click on it.
- After that, enter the passcode and whether to “Trust this computer” on your iPad. Make sure you trust the computer once you enter the passcode.
- Now on iTunes on your computer, click the blue Restore iPhone button.
- Click the Restore button in the pop-up to begin resetting your iOS device to factory settings.
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