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Sep. 15,2012 17:27 pm /
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Nowadays, as the development of technology, almost everyone in the world uses many electronic products, such as computer, mobile phone, camera, MP5. Electronic products exist everywhere around us. On one hand, they bring us much convenience and colorful lives. On the other hand, some troubles come from them. People’s privacy becomes easy to be exposed. Most of us, especially celebrities and superstars, are trying their best to protect their privacy from being exposed, because some of their privacy will bring them bad effects, which, to great extent, will do harm to them. If they can erase their data leaving on their electronic products, many unnecessary troubles and bad effects could be avoided, and their lives will be much easier.
Know about How Does iPhone Store Data
Many iOS users may not know that iOS devices use flash memory for storage but do not have a removable ssd like you would find in a computer or laptop, it has the NAND flash soldered directly to their microscopic logic boards. NAND flash memory reads faster than it writes, and as a result, the manufacturer typically advertises the faster read speed. NAND is the flash memory used in solid-state drives that read and write data sequentially.
Thus, considering mobile phone becomes more popular among people, especially iPhone, which is more and more popular in recent years. Most celebrities and superstars are preferring iPhone. Therefore, now I would like to teach you how to erase iPhone data in the below.
Before erasing the data and settings on your iPhone, what should be warned is that you should make sure your iPhone is fully charged or charging when you make the next operation. Then I'd like to recommend you this Vibosoft iPhone Data Eraser, which can help you wipe off iPhone data without recovering.
Guide: Permanently Erase Data from iPhone 4/4S/5/5S/5C/6/6 Plus
1Connect iPhone to Computer and Launch the Program
At first, install and open this program on computer. Then connect your iPhone 4/4S/5/5S/5C/6/6 Plus to PC via a USB cable. A few seconds later, you will get an interface to remind you to choose erasing type( see picture).
2Select Security Level and Begin to Erase
There are three security levels for you to choose from, you can select one according to your need. Then touch the "Start" option, the program will start to clear your iPhone device immediately.
This process will be finished within several minutes, please be patient. Now there is a free trial version for you, you can download and try this Vibosoft iPhone Data Eraser by yourself.
Backup Your iPhone Data before Erasing
Firstly, you should save data before erasing them. Important data on your iPhone will be automatically saved by iCloud. Meanwhile, you also can backup data through manual methods. There are two methods for you to erase the data on the iPhone.
1) Backup iPhone by iCloud
The first method is backing up data by iCloud. You should make sure there is real connection between your iPhone and Wi-Fi, and then open the setting option to navigate to storage and backup. In this way, according the time you backup iCloud, you can immediately backup data on your iPhone. It should be noted that a few minutes would be spent in the last step.
2) Backup iPhone by iTunes
The second method is backing up data by iTunes. First, you need to connect your iPhone with computer, and then open iTunes option and navigate it to “device” on the left panel. At last, you only need to choose “backup” by right clicking. Through this method, what should be noted is that if you have bought items on iPhone, but you forget to transfer them to the computer, it is a little trouble for you. However, do not worry. There is always method for you to save it. You can choose “transferring purchasing items” by right clicking. Then you could backup the purchasing contents to computer.
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