I'll show you how to erase your iPhone before selling it. I'll give you the steps you need
to do before selling or giving away your iPhone. In summary you'll need to backup your iPhone or
transfer it to a new one, then unpair say your Apple watch, sign out of Apple ID and iCloud,
then go ahead and erase your iPhone and do a factory reset. I'll also show you a different
method which is a shortcut on how to prepare your iPhone before selling it that only takes
one minute. Now let's get into it. A quick note: if you have already got a new iPhone and you're
deleting your old iPhone like I am here, there is an option under settings where it asks you
to give you step-by-step instructions to prepare the phone to be sold. So you can follow that by
pressing get started and do all of these things here. However, I like to be safe and make sure
that I've done it personally. So if you're happy you've backed up everything and you
want to trust Apple to do this then go ahead and do this method. However if you haven't already
transferred things to your new phone here's how you do it. So first you want to go ahead and back
up your iPhone or transfer it to your new iPhone so to back up you can either go through iCloud
so if you've got enough storage on your iCloud you can back up your iPhone that way however if
you don't have enough iCloud storage then what you'll need to do is go into your computer and
use iTunes to then upload or backup all of your content from your iPhone to the hard drive on your
computer via iTunes however as I said before if you're transferring things to a new iPhone what
you can do is get that new iPhone bring it next to your old iPhone while it's asking you to set
things up and it will automatically transfer the contents from your old iPhone to your new iPhone
so once that's been transferred what I do is I recommend you use your new iPhone just for
a week or two to make sure that all of your apps and settings have been you know transferred over
all the passwords particularly for example Google Authenticator if you delete that
without transferring your permissions to your new device I think you lose that forever so be
very careful with that one next thing you want to do if you've got an Apple Watch is unpair
your Apple watch from this phone so I think I've already done that for this phone yes I have if
I hadn't it would come up and you'd be able to see that I've got this Apple watch still paired
with this phone and you'll have to go ahead and unpair it so that it doesn't recognize it anymore
okay once you're sure that you've backed everything up or transferred everything
that you want to you've taken off the Apple watch you've tested out your new phone and you're all
happy then go ahead and do the following steps head into settings we'll come over and tap your
name and then all the way down the bottom you want to tap sign out and what this will do is it
will sign out of the App Store find my media and purchases iCloud and family sharing and anything
else that's connected so we'll go ahead and tap sign out you'll need to put in your password so
I'll just go ahead and put that in and then press turn off and then just wait for that to happen
now it's asking for this and I don't want to do that so I'll make sure these are still disabled
and they're not confirm by pressing sign out and now we wait for the magic to happen this could
take up to a minute or two depending on how much content you've got through the iCloud server okay
so that's fully done as you can see here that it says sign in to your phone that means that at the
moment nothing is currently connected so if I tap that now you can see that by signing into Apple ID
you'll get iCloud App Store iTunes iMessage find my and wallet so everything that's associated with
any of those apps has now been disconnected or signed out so that's a good confirmation
next thing you want to do is go into your new iPhone or your iPad or your Mac and then head
into settings and type your name and now you can see all of the devices that have been connected to
your iCloud server and previously this phone here the old one showed up in this list but now that
has been taken off of there so that step's already done as well but it's good to do this step just to
check anyway so before you go ahead and do the actual erase all data and contents and settings
you want to just do another double check in your mind that you've got everything on your new phone
or it's backed up to a place that you trust and maybe just go through all your apps visually and
just see if that triggers you into thinking oh maybe I haven't transferred some of the data from
there okay it's now time to do that final step of erasing the iPhone so hit settings then come on
down to General all the way down the bottom it's got transfer or reset iPhone now if you have not
been able to successfully do the transfer from your old phone to a new phone this is how you're
going to do that otherwise now I'm ready to go ahead and do this so I can either reset which is
just going to reset the factory settings but what I actually want to do is erase all content and
settings to make sure that the next person using this phone has absolutely none of my information
or apps on there so go ahead and do that and this is just another check to make sure okay so I've
got an e-sim on here as well instead of a hard seam now if you've got a hard SIM card you'll
have to take that out before you sell the phone as well and it's showing that it's got apps and data
to delete as well and you'll notice that these two items appeared at the very start of the video when
I showed you the automatic way to do it when I had the four options there so those two items have
been taken away manually and the phone recognizes it's just these two left to do so now we'll go
ahead and continue I'll just put the passcode in and then you get this message yes I definitely
do because I have gone through everything many times so let's erase data and also erase the
esims so that's another important step to do as well you don't want to have your own e-sim left
on here in case the next person is able to access that so we'll select arrays data and e-sims here
and now it goes ahead and it will delete and reboot the phone while that's happening we
can just make sure that there's definitely no SIM card in here and there is not so that's all good
and now we'll just wait for the magic to happen
and there we go there's a pretty quick process but now you can see that we are back to a fully fresh
and ready to sell iPhone now that you know what to do before selling or giving away your iPhone
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