If you bought one of the new iPhone 15 or iPhone 15 Pro, you may end up getting rid of the iPhone you had before. You can sell it, give it to a family member, or simply give it to Apple for recycling. Or maybe you want to buy a new iPhone through the Trade In program.
In all these cases, you will still need to erase the iPhone. Or as some say, reset itformat it or reset it. Make it look like it just came out of the box, with all our data and settings removed. For those who have never done it, let’s see how to erase iPhone using various methods.
First thing: turn off search on your iPhone
First of all, the first thing to do is disable search on your iPhone to make sure it’s properly unlinked from your Apple ID once we delete everything. To achieve this, we will follow these steps in iOS 17:
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Click on your name in the upper box.
- Click on the ‘Search’ section
- Click on the “Find My iPhone” option and turn it off:
This will remove your iPhone from the Find My network, where the rest of your Apple devices should be located. At this point, remember: you must have a backup of your iPhone if you want to recover all your data on another iPhone later.
How to Erase Your iPhone from iOS
The most common and quickest way to erase the iPhone is the one offered by its own system, and this is probably the one you will use in the vast majority of cases. Once you are sure you have a backup, follow these steps:
- Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Click “General”.
- Scroll to the bottom of this section and tap ‘Transfer or reset iPhone‘.
- Click “Remove content and settings”:
From there, you need to follow the instructions and fill in the requested passwords. Remember: you will delete all data from the phone and you will not be able to go back. Make sure as many times as necessary that this is what you want to do.
How to Erase Your iPhone from Mac
If for some reason you prefer to format iPhone from a Mac, the process is not too complicated. Simply connect it via cable to your computer and open it from the Finder sidebar (or in iTunes, if you have an older Mac). In the sheet with all the information, Locate the “Restore iPhone” button
Again, you need to follow the instructions to reset iPhone. This will take a few minutes, do not unplug the cable that connects the iPhone to the Mac until the process is complete or macOS Sonoma itself tells you that you can now do it.
How to Erase Your iPhone Remotely from Search
This way of resetting an iPhone is reserved for emergency situations, for times when you have lost your iPhone or are convinced that it has been stolen. Then what you need to do is turn to another Apple device (perhaps the closest case you have on hand is a friend’s iPhone) and follow these steps:
- Open the Search app.
- Sign in with your Apple ID (or in the “Me” section, tap the “Help someone else” option if you’re already signed in, then sign in with your account).
- In the bottom bar, click on the “Devices” section.
- Locate your iPhone in the list and click on its name.
- Click on the “Remove this device” option.
- At the last warning, click “Continue”:
You may need to enter your Apple ID password and verify your identity. Wherever you are, your iPhone It will be automatically formatted as soon as you connect to the Internet. via a WiFi network or mobile data network.
Is your iPhone locked? Try DFU mode
One last situation we can tell you about is if there is a case in which your iPhone has been frozen and is not responding in any way. In this case, you can try putting the iPhone into DFU mode. You can do it with these steps:
- Press the volume up button as you normally would.
- Press the volume down button as you normally would.
- Press and hold the lock button for ten seconds.
This should force the iPhone to restart and display DFU mode, which should allow you to connect it to a Mac and erase it. Anyway, before doing this, make sure it has enough battery, because sometimes the reason for the crash can be as simple as the battery being completely drained.
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