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Apple products have a very good exit in the second-hand market, they hardly suffer drastic price drops, which induces to sell products to acquire new ones. However, it is important to know all the details that we must take into account when selling our iPhone. So, we are going to make a small compilation of all the steps you must take before handing over your old iPhone to its new ownerIn this way we will save on inconveniences and possible transfers of sensitive information, these are interesting guidelines as well as necessary.
We go there with the little tips that you cannot ignore before selling your iPhone. We recommend that you do not skip absolutely any if you want all your data to be safe and also that you do not have any problems when you start using your new device.
We start with a backup
The backup could not be missed. My personal advice is to do it on iTunes. To make an encrypted copy in iTunes we simply have to connect the iPhone by cable to our PC or Mac and open iTunes, then we will select the button «Back up», but we will check the box to encrypt the backup. It will ask us for a key which is the one we will use to decrypt it.
It is interesting to use this option because that way we will store more information than is saved in a normal backup. So then we can restore said backup on the new device that we had acquired, quickly and stored in a good place.
Disconnect iCloud services
The first thing we must do is disconnect our iCloud account and delete the information from the device. To do this, we are going to go to the «Settings» application and navigate to the «iCloud» section. We simply have to click on our email or Apple ID, which appears in blue, and from the options that it offers us, we will choose the "Close Session" option.
It will ask us if we want to keep the information on the device or delete it, but logically we are going to click on the option in red to delete the information. We will do the same with the applications in which we have started the session through the settings, such as Facebook and Twitter.
Disconnect all other services from iTunes and the App Store
It is important that we unlink our iTunes account and the App Store of the device as a preliminary step, so we will also make sure that there will be no trace of our transactions in the Apple service stores. To do this we are going to go back to the «Settings» application to navigate to «iTunes Store and App Store». Once again the disconnection procedure is quite simple, we simply click on our Apple ID and among the functions it offers us, we will select the one to "Close Session".
It is also important that we unlink our device from Messages and FaceTime, for this we will go to the "Settings" application, we will navigate to Messages and deactivate the option. The same pattern will continue with the FaceTime application.
We will unlink the iPhone from our Apple ID
This is a step as definitive as it is necessary, it is important that we unlink the iPhone from our Apple ID, otherwise it cannot be restored without entering the keys of the Apple ID to which it is associated. For this we will go to the web «iCloud.com/settings» and we will log in with our Apple ID. Once inside, we will look for our iPhone from the list (the one that we are going to deliver of course), and we will click on the "Remove" option if we have the page open in English (delete if it comes out in Spanish).
And finally, we will delete the iPhone from our purchased products, for this we will click on THIS LINK and we will choose the iPhone in question from the entire list.
Restore iPhone to factory settings
Once deleted, we will no longer have any relationship with the iPhone that we are going to sell, so we only have to restore it. We will simply have to restore the iPhone to factory settings by following THIS TUTORIAL.
After formatting, I always give him an app to clean and permanently erase all the data that are still deleted on the device and anyone with a little computer knowledge can extract ... I use iCleaner is old but it works perfectly, if someone knows a better one say it. Thanks!
You really have to be a little careful when selling your cell phone because once I sold a cell phone and there were some personal files, photos, videos etc and it was a bit complicated. I had to call the client to make sure everything was ready, I agree with Carlos, using iCleaner is a good method. I also share this article about making a good file transfer http://mundoderespuestas.com/como-transferir-tus-archivos-de-tu-antiguo-ios-al-nuevo/ get the best out of it. regards