How to Reset Your iPhone Into Factory Condition - wikiHow

If you are wondering how to delete all the data from your iPhone, you can follow the tutorial given by this article. As a matter of fact, everyone knows that factory reset an iPhone will wipe everything off from the device and it’ll return to the same state as a brand new one when you first took it out of the box.If you’re planning to sell your iPhone or give your iPhone to other people and don’t want others to view your data on your iPhone, you should do a factory reset beforehand. Otherwise, the buyer or someone else will have access to all of your personal information, some may be private. To do a factory reset, you can use either of the following one: Reset your iPhone using iTunes installed on your computer & Reset your iPhone directly from your untethered phone.Only resetting from iTunes is described in this article.
STEPS

1

CONNECT YOUR IPHONE WITH COMPUTER USING AN USB ADAPTER CABLE THAT CAME WITH YOUR IPHONE.

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THEN LET ITUNES SYNC YOUR IPHONE AUTOMATICALLY. This will ensure you have an iTunes backup that can restore your iPhone, in case that you want the data again. 

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WHEN THE SYNC IS DONE, SCROLL UP TO THE TOP OF THE IPHONE PAGE IN ITUNES AND PRESS THE "RESTORE" BUTTON IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER.
TIPS
iPhone reset will absolutely erase all the data ever in your iPhone, but if your iPhone data is so confidential and private that you don't want others to get the data, I strongly recommend you to keep your iPhone yourself, because some recovery tool can recover the data from iPhone even you have done a factory resetting for it.  I know a piece of software that can recover the data even erased by iPhone factory setting - iPhone Data Recovery.
Of course, you can also use the software mentioned above to recover your deleted but wanted data. It is truly a powerful gadget to recover iPhone data.
WARNINGS
For the data safety of your iPhone, please think twice before you leap. In case that you are guilty to erase all the data.
SOURCES AND CITATIONS
The iPhone Data Recovery mentioned above can be got from: http://www.tenorshare.com/products/iphone-data-recovery-win.html
And the Mac version is from: http://www.tenorshare.com/products/iphone-data-recovery-mac.html
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Categories: Cell Phone Maintenance
Recent edits by: Young MC, Adriacecilia
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