Tuesday, January 21, 2014
iPhone Date Eraser
If you're like many iPhone users, your iPhone is a portal to your sensitive personal and financial data. That's why it's so important to back up and erase your data before you sell your iPhone. Otherwise, you're giving the buyer access to your bank and other financial accounts, personal photos, social media accounts, and other information that, in the wrong hands, could be used to steal your identity and your money. The following details what you need to know to properly backup and erase iPhone data to prevent identity theft and ensure a safe and secure iPhone transaction.
Before selling your iPhone 5, sending to Apple, or otherwise sharing it, note the following: performing a "Restore" operation on the iPhone 5 does not delete personal data from the device. In fact, mail, contacts, and various other data remain intact on the device after a restore, then you should eraser all the data for iPhone .
The most secure way is using professional third-party software like iPhone Data Eraser, which is a reliable and effective tool to smash everything on your iPhone 5/4S/3GS, including contacts, messages, photos, videos, apps, account info, passwords, photos and other personal data. After erasing iPhone data by using this program, no any data recovery tool like iPhone Data Recovery can recover any data from your iPhone. Your iPhone will turn to a clean slate and even the government recovery facility can do nothing with it.
iPhone Data Eraser is easy to use and allows you to finish the data erasing task in 3 simple steps. Download the free trial version of the software and then follow the steps as below to go through the task. Here, we will set Windows version as an example. Mac users can turn to the Mac version and follow the same operations as below.
Step 1. Connect iPhone to Computer and Run Software
Download and install the data erasing program on your computer. Double-click on the desktop program shortcut to launch it and you will see its interface showing like below picture. Connect your iPhone from which you want to delete SMS to your computer via the Apple provided USB cable and the connected iPhone will be detected by the program automatically.
Tips: All iPhone models can be supported by this program, such as iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, etc.
iphone data erasing screenshot
Step 2. Choose Lever of Data Erasing as You Want
The program provides you with three levels of data erasing. The first level will erase your iPhone data quickly to save your time. The second level will leave no traceability of data erasure and use random data to overwrite all existing and deleted data on your iPhone. The third level is the most secure option which will write over the data 3 times. You can directly use the default second level. Choose the text messages you want to delete forever.
start to erase iphone data
Step 3. Start to Erase text messages on Your iPhone
After choosing your wanted erasing level and the text messages folder, you can choose the option of erase all data and settings to delete all text messages from your iPhone.
start to erase iphone data
Bingo! All the text messages, including incoming messages and outgoing messages are all successfully erased from your iPhone. Now, you will never need to worry about your private text messages from revealing. Since the irretrievable feature of the program, do remember backup important data on your iPhone before you start to use this program to perform the permanent deletion.
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