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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? Therefore, you want to permanently delete all data on your iPhone before treatment.Now that the common deletion is not enough. Apple only provide a hardware encryption to get your data locked instead of deleting it. That's to say, with a powerful data recovery tool, the data still can be retrieved, and your personal data will be at risk of leaking.

To permanently delete data from iPhone, iPad or iPod touch before you donate, resell, or trade it in, you have to use a 3rd party wiping tool, iPhone Data Eraser is one of the most professional tools that allows you to 1 Click ultimate privacy protection in order to prevent identity theft when disposing of your old iOS devices. With the help of this porgram, you can complete erase includes contacts, messages, photos, apps, account info, videos, passwords and other personal data stored on your iDevices and ensure that 100% nothing recoverable even if using the most professional data recovery software. What's more, the program perfectly compatible with iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS, as well as iPad mini, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPod Touch and more. In addition, jailbroken iPhone friendly and also compatible with carrier-locked iPhones.

One Click To Completely Delete All Your Personal Data On iPhone Safely

Step 1. Do backup your iPhone

Before you get started, please backup your iPhone data first. All data on your iPhone will be totally wiped and can't be retrieved. To get the messages deleted permanently, you can't restore your iPhone from iTunes or iCloud, or the deleted data will also be restored. The best way is to use a third-party tool, such as iPhone Data Assistant, to backup the data from your iPhone to the computer. You can put it back to your iPhone after the deleting.

Step 2. Connect your iPhone

Run the software. Connect your iPhone with a USB cable to the computer, you’ll see its main window as follows.

Step 3. Choose a type of data erasing

Please choose the first type: "WIPE OVERALL" (the "ERASE DELETED FILES" type is not available yet)

Step 4. Start to delete all personal data on your iPhone

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. Keep in mind that please don’t disconnect your iPhone during the process. Or data on your iPhone will not be completely erased.

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