Tutorial: How to delete all data on your smartphone 1

Tutorial: How to delete all data on your smartphone

Whether we want to sell, trade or give our smartphone to someone else, almost all of us already face this problem, personal data is obviously not involved in the processing. Messages, contact information, embarrassing photos and videos are some examples we don’t want to disclose.

There are several solutions for you to delete your personal data without any risk and in a very simple way and we will see these different solutions in detail so that each of you can do it. Here are those solutions:

  1. Format Your SD Card
  2. Reset your smartphone
  3. Perform a Hard Reset

Erase all data on your smartphone in a few steps

Any smartphone user collects personal data over time, media such as photos, videos or music; exchanges such as your messages or emails; for example, as well as other file types that may be relevant to your work, it never ends.

So it is very good to know how to delete all this data, don’t think it’s complicated because it’s not, but you just have to know the different steps.

personal data
  • Remove your SD card and format it if necessary

Although the memory of SIM cards is not used much nowadays, it is too small to contain anything but a few people, in many smartphones we have the possibility to install an external memory card (MicroSD) and on this famous card where some of your personal data will be stored.

If you change your phone to keep some of your personal data, you can keep it, but if you plan to sell it or give it to someone else, it’s better if you don’t have any of your personal data left on it. To do this, you need to format the memory card.

Here are the steps to format your SD card from your phone:

  • Come in Settings
  • Later in the section battery
  • find later Erase SD card
  • to push Erase SD card
reset SD card

Here are the steps to format your SD card from your computer:

  • Insert the micro SD card into your computer (probably copy your data over it)
  • Come in Computer Where Workplace
  • Right click on the related iconremovable drive
  • Click “format
  • Click “to start
Format PC SD card

The cheat is played on the SD card. Android users have a clear advantage when it comes to data stored on the phone itself.

  • Reset your Android smartphone directly from settings

Google’s operating system does indeed have a built-in reset option, and here’s how to do it:

  • go to Settings
  • Backup and Reset
  • to press”reset phone” (Where “Reset the settings to default” Where “Restore factory values“)
  • Different boxes can be offered to you. If so, tick them all to completely reset your device.
smartphone reset steps
  • Reset your smartphone with “Hard Reset”

Finally, in case your phone has a major problem or this is your last option: hard reset. You will need to press several physical buttons on your smartphone at the same time to perform this Hard Reset.

Since the combinations for almost every phone are different, I recommend you go to Hard-Reset.com and find the combination that corresponds to your phone. Operations that are easy to perform but have proven very useful.

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