In this video we're going to show you what to do
before selling your iPhone in 2022,
and recommend some places you can sell your phone
to get the most cash possible.
- It's not a trivial matter to sell
or give away an iPhone.
Things go are wrong all the time
with security and authentication,
especially if you can't log into your Apple ID
because you got a new phone number
or because you already gave the device away,
and you can't forget it,
people can't activate it.
We're gonna show you first
how to add a trusted phone number.
- Right, it's very important
especially if you're switching phone numbers
'cause if your old phone number
is your trusted phone number on your Apple ID,
all of a sudden you're locked out.
Open up the Settings app,
and then tap on your name at the top of the screen.
Tap Password and Security,
then tap, Edit next to trusted phone number.
Here it'll say Add a Trusted Phone Number.
Tap on that and then enter the phone number
you want to add as a trusted phone number.
- Cool, and if that doesn't work,
you can also do it on appleid.apple.com
Either way works.
- Next, unpair your Apple Watch.
I'll go back to the home screen of my phone,
and open up the Watch app.
Then tap All Watches
upper-left hand corner of the screen.
Next to your watch, tap that information button,
it's the I in a circle,
then tap Unpair Apple Watch,
and confirm with unpair your Apple Watch.
- This whole unpairing Apple Watch experience
can be kinda confusing.
I know I was confused by it the first time.
When you unpair an Apple Watch from an iPhone,
it downloads all of the data on the Apple Watch
and stores it on your iPhone.
Then when you go to back up your iPhone,
it includes the Apple Watch data.
- Well, our next step is to back up your iPhone.
Now there are a few different ways to do it,
iCloud, Finder, iTunes.
If you have a PC or a Mac running 10.14 or older,
you'll use iTunes.
If you have a Mac running 10.15 or newer, you'll use Finder,
but in this video, let's just use iCloud.
So I'll go back to the Setting app on my iPhone.
We're already in the Password and Security step,
so tap on that Apple ID,
upper left hand corner of the screen,
then tap on iCloud.
Then tap iCloud Backup and then tap Back Up Now.
- Yep, all the watch data,
it's all also part of this.
So it's going up there.
- Yep, now that your iPhone is backed up,
we need to sign out of your Apple ID.
- Sure do. - So let's tap back on iCloud,
upper left hand corner of the screen,
back to Apple ID,
upper left hand corner of the screen,
and then scroll all the way down
and tap Sign Out at the bottom of the screen.
So we're signed out of our Apple ID.
Our iPhone is backed up.
Now we have to turn off iMessage.
- iMessage is Apple's blue bubble alternative
to regular SMS, text messaging.
Especially if you're switching to Android,
you have to turn off iMessage,
otherwise Apple devices will be texting you into the abyss.
- Let's go back to the main page of the Settings app
and scroll down to Messages.
Tap on Messages,
and then the switch next to iMessage
just tap that to turn it off.
Next, we're going to erase all content and settings
on your iPhone.
Let's go back to the main page of the Settings app.
Scroll up and tap on General,
then scroll down to Transfer or Reset iPhone.
Then tap, Erase All Content and Settings
and then walk through this process.
If you Find My turned on on your iPhone,
it may require you to log in through Apple ID and password,
because you do need to turn off Find My.
- Yeah, Find My app, and this is also gonna turn off
iCloud activation Lock,
which is super important.
That's where it goes wrong a lot of the time.
- If your phone uses eSIM,
you're gonna choose the option to erase your device
and the eSIM option.
Once your iPhone has finished erasing
all content and settings,
it's really important to also remove your SIM card.
- Apple won't necessarily tell you to do this
because as soon as you get a new phone number, a new phone,
the SIM card in this phone is supposed to get deactivated,
but just in case something goes wrong,
yeah, let's not leave anything
that has to do with your phone number in this phone.
If you have an iPhone 12 or newer,
or an iPhone 8 or older,
your SIM tray's on the left side of your phone.
If you're in the middle, iPhone X, 11, XS,
it's on the right side.
So this is on the left side, it's an iPhone 12 Pro.
Grab a paper clip
or a SIM card ejector tool. - SIM card ejector tool.
Yeah, not a lot of people have those lying around.
Straighten out paper clip
works just as well. - Even I can't find them,
and there's a thousand here.
I lose them.
Okay, just press down inside that hole
and take it out.
- There you go. - But then make sure
you put the SIM tray
back in your phone. - Yep.
- Just like this.
Otherwise the next person who gets the phone
will be less than happy.
- You're ready to sell your iPhone.
Let's talk about some of your best options.
Amazon Trade-In program.
My issue with this program
is that you only can get Amazon Gift Cards
as opposed to cash, which is kind of annoying,
but if you shop a lot on Amazon, good deal.
- This whole ecosystem of selling phones works like a graph.
- Yeah. - The easier it is
to sell the phone,
the less money you get. - Sure.
- The harder it is, the more money you can get.
So Amazon's easy.
- Yes. - Apple GiveBack, right?
- Apple GiveBack.
You can see what your phone's value is,
assuming it's in good working condition.
Apple has a nice chart for you to see
what you can expect to get for your phone,
and you give a couple options here.
You can get an Apple Store Gift Card,
which you could then put towards a new phone,
which makes sense or-
- Or anything else at an Apple Store.
- Or anything else at an Apple Store, Mac, iPad.
Now, if you have a really old phone
or really broken phone and Apple said,
"We're not gonna give you any money for it,"
they will take the phone for free
and recycle it for you.
- Right. - So that's nice of them.
- Thanks, Apple. - But you might be able
to sell it to somebody else for parts,
and there are a lot of options out there.
Shop around, see what you can really get for your phone
because some websites are going to give you
more than others.
- Websites like what David?
- Well, there's gazelle.
You just send them your device, the model,
the condition that it's in,
they'll send you a quote.
- Easy. - Yep, you can get PayPal,
you can get cash, you can get an Amazon Gift Card,
just like Amazon offers,
and right now, I don't know how long this deal's gonna last,
but if you give them your email address,
you can get $5 extra on your first trade-ins.
- All right, for the seven of you
who are still watching this video, what's next David?
- Well, there's ecoATM,
and you mentioned earlier how the easier it is
to give your phone back,
the less money you're probably going to get.
- Yeah. - ecoATM, really easy.
You walk into your Walmart, you pop your phone in the ATM,
and it says, "Oh, your phone, brand new,
it's worth 500 bucks."
So you probably won't get the best returns for this,
but this is a more climate friendly approach
to recycling old phones
if you're interested in that sort of thing.
There's also websites like you uSell and SellCell,
that's S-E-L-L-C-E-L-L.
They'll give you cash for your phone.
Links to all of these websites
can be found in the description section of this video.
- Yeah, there's a lot of places.
Let us know if you find a cool place to sell your phone.
Let us know in the common section below.
We'd love to know about more of these places,
and especially if you have experience with these places.
- Yeah, I would be really curious
to hear people's experience with the ecoATMs specifically.
- Yeah, real experience.
- Yeah, that's what to do before you sell your iPhone
and hopefully we've helped you find the place
to get the most money you can for it.
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