How to Prepare iPhone for Sale - Back up Your Data

How to Prepare iPhone for Sale - Back up Your Data


Before you erase your phone to its factory settings you will want to make sure that all of your important data is saved and backed up so that you can retrieve it on your new phone. To do this, you can back up all of your data to iTunes or iCloud. With the help of a backup, you can save your contacts, text messages, photos, videos, ringtones, or anything else you would like to transfer to your new phone. Here's how:
1 Using iTunes


Step 1: Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes.


Step 2: On the left side drop-down menu you will see a Device icon, click on it to select your Device.


Step 3: Select "Summary".


Step 4: Under "Manually backup and restore", click on "Back up now".


Step 5: Wait for backup to complete.



2Using iCloud


Step 1: On your iPhone, go into your "Settings" option.


Step 2: Tap on your Apple ID.


Step 3: Tap iCloud --> iCloud backup --> Backup Now.


Step 4: Wait for backup to complete.
How to Prepare iPhone for Sale - Sign out of iCloud


When selling your phone, signing out of iCloud is important in keeping your data safe and secure. When you sign out of iCloud, you will also be signed out of a variety of other apps including Apple Pay, Find My Friends, Find My iPhone, and photo sharing among many more. This will help to ensure that no one can gain access to your accounts and passwords after you sold your phone. Here's how:


Step 1: On your iPhone go into Settings and click on your name/device.


Step 2: Scroll down to "Sign out" and click on it.


Step 3: When prompted, enter your Apple ID and tap "Turn off".


Step 4: Confirm your decision to sign out of iCloud.



How to Prepare iPhone for Sale - Erase iPhone to Factory Settings


When selling your iPhone, no one will want to receive it if it is full of all your old data. Not only that, but handing over your iPhone without completely erasing everything could put your private data and information at risk. As such, you will want to restore your phone to factory settings before selling. This will erase all data on the phone and restore it to its original settings. Here's how:


Step 1: On your iPhone, go into Settings --> General --> Reset.


Step 2: Click on "Erase All Content and Settings".


Step 3: Enter code and password if prompted.


Step 4: Enter Apple ID.


Step 5: Wait for the process to complete.





Note: This process will erase all data and information on your phone. However, the data erased using this method is still recoverable. If you need to erase them completely without any chance of recovery, you may need an Erase Tool to do this for you. Gihosoft Photo Eraser Erase unwanted objects and perfect your amazing photos!


If you lost data after you updated to a new iPhone, you can always use Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery to get the data back from the old iPhone or backup.


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