How to Restore iPhone before Changing iPhone Owner - Avoid Privacy Exposing

Updated Sep 29,2018 | by Bennie

With iPhone Xs, Xr, Xs max released, maybe you have brought one of them and is intending to give or sell your old iPhone to others. The most important thing you need to do before changing the owner of your iPhone is to restore the iPhone. If you don’t, the risk of exposing all your privacies will be taken.

If you think deleting all your data on iPhone should be a good option, you are wrong. The new owner can still get your data from iCloud or iTunes. So, how to restore iPhone? In this article, here are 2 methods shown as follow.

Talking about restoring iPhone, restoring iPhone to factory settings should be the first choice for you to restore iPhone before changing iPhone owner. In this method, you will remove all your data, information as well as the account on your iPhone. Here are the simple steps to complete this mission.

Step 1: Backup your iPhone to a computer.

As I mentioned above, restoring iPhone to factory settings will delete all your data, and if you don’t want to lose all data on iPhone, just back up the iPhone to a computer. IOTransfer, which mentioned in the hyperlink, could be the most convenient way to back up iPhone files, even without USB cables.

Step 2: Go to Settings>General.

Step 3: Scroll down find "Reset", and tap it.

Step 4: Tap "Erase All Content and Settings".

Step 5: Enter the password of iPhone, and after a few minutes, you will have an iPhone without any data.

Now, you can give the iPhone to anybody and others need to set up the iPhone as a new user.

Another easy way to restore iPhone before changing iPhone owner is to restore iPhone on computer with iTunes. In this method, you can easily backup your files and restore iPhone with iTunes with a few clicks.

Step 1: Open iTunes on a computer and connect your iPhone to the computer.

Step 2: Turn off “Find My iPhone” on your iPhone.

Step 3: Click the iPhone icon and switch to iPhone device panel.

Step 4: Find "Restore iPhone" on the right side.

Step 5: Click button "Restore iPhone" and of course, you need to back up your iPhone first.

In this method, you have to ensure your iPhone is well-connected to the computer or else, the process could be failed.

Generally, iCloud should be the first choice for you when backup iPhone files. However, the free plan of iCloud is only 5GB and it’s far from saving all files on iPhone for most people. So, a plan B should be set for such a mission.

As mentioned above, IOTransfer, as the best alternative to iCloud, provides a simple but efficient way to backup iPhone files. All you need to do is connecting your iPhone to a computer and all files on iPhone could be backed up to the computer within a few clicks.

Step 1: Free Download IOTransfer and install it on your Windows 10/8/8.1/7 computer and connect your iPhone to the computer. You need to tap on “Trust” on your iPhone if it requires.

In this section, if a lightning cable is not carried, you can also use the AIR-TRANS feature to connect your iPhone to PC and back up files wirelessly.

Step 2: Launch IOTransfer and go to the MANAGE page.

Step 3: You can see there are many categories on the left like photos, music, etc. Click the category you intend to back up to your computer. For example, back up photos to computer.

Step 4: Select an album that you want to back up. Tick off the box “Select All” or click the photos you want to backup. Then click “Export”.

Step 5：Choose the location to save the photos and save them to your computer.

After all photos have been saved to your computer, you must know how to back up other files because the steps are just the same as backup photos.

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