Completely wipe clean a iphone

[GaryB1263]

I am giving someone my 5s phone. Is there a way to completely wipe the memory on this phone? I am giving it to a woman.

[KMartinHandyman]

Go to:

settings

General

Reset

[manarak]

I am giving it to a woman.

wow, eh, that's an important detail !!

[Aussie69]

I am giving it to a woman.

wow, eh, that's an important detail !!

... then again it may have been full of porn, snapshots of soapy massage, etc

[RKASA]

Maybe his real name is Anthony Weiner.

[dddave]

Don't know about the i-phone specifically but there were a number of stories in the tech press a few months ago that a standard "Reset" didn't do the job completely.

[MJCM]

Don't know about the i-phone specifically but there were a number of stories in the tech press a few months ago that a standard "Reset" didn't do the job completely.

Link please.

But the only thing you can access on a NON-Jailbroken iPhone from a PC is the DCIM (Camera files) location, and then it would still be difficult to "un-erase" them.

[Rayk]

I am giving someone my 5s phone. Is there a way to completely wipe the memory on this phone? I am giving it to a woman.

The best, easiest and most effective way to wipe out the memory in a phone is the throw it full force against a wall.

Then you should give it to a woman.

Edited June 18, 2016 by Rayk

[MJCM]

In answer to the OP's question

What to do before selling or giving away your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

[dddave]

Don't know about the i-phone specifically but there were a number of stories in the tech press a few months ago that a standard "Reset" didn't do the job completely.

Link please.

But the only thing you can access on a NON-Jailbroken iPhone from a PC is the DCIM (Camera files) location, and then it would still be difficult to "un-erase" them.

https://www.androidpit.com/why-a-factory-reset-doesn-t-wipe-all-your-data

Here is a link to one of the articles I referred to, specifically about Android, not IOS.

[Lannig]

Hardly relevant to an iPhone as requested by the OP.

[Rc2702]

On 18/06/2016 at 7:54 AM, MJCM said:

Link please.

But the only thing you can access on a NON-Jailbroken iPhone from a PC is the DCIM (Camera files) location, and then it would still be difficult to "un-erase" them.

Irecovery stick for iPhone can recover the deleted data.

[CaptHaddock]

The OP should encrypt the phone and then do the factory reset.  Data will remain on the phone since a reset is not a data wipe, i.e. does not overwrite every byte.  Nevertheless, whatever data remains will be encrypted and not recoverable by mere mortals.

[GaryB1263]

Thanks. Samsung catching on fire so I guess I will keep it.