How to erase all data on iPhone 4?
How to erase all data on iPhone 4?
Added (1). Hi, recently my aunt gave me her iPhone 4. But it says it is disabled for 24,654,897 minutes. I've been looking up ways to manually erase the iPhone by just using combinations of the home button and the top button (The button to turn the device on and off), But those just seem to just shut the iPhone down. Also my aunt forgot her iTunes password too, so restoring is not an option anymore. So is there a combination of buttons on the iPhone I can use to erase all the data? Or anyway to reset?
You could have found this with a quick Google search.
From iPhone:
First, open your settings app, and navigate to general.
Next, scroll down to the bottom and tap on reset.
Finally, tap the button "Erase All Content and Settings", which is the 2nd button down from the top.
If on Computer:
So I've got my lightning cable plugged in to my iPhone and my USB cable in to the other, USB end of it plugged in to the computer. ITunes opened automatically and here in the upper right I see iPhone. It's just a button, so I click on that button. And right at the top I see the version of iOS that my phone is running and it tells me when it's going to automatically check for an update. Now I can check for an update and it's current. Right here it says, restore iPhone. So I click restore iPhone, it asks me what I want to do. Do you want to backup the settings for iPhone before restoring the software. Don't backup or backup. I'm backing up and then it takes me through the restore process, it actually downloads the most recent version of the operating system, iOS. In this case, 6.1.2, and then extracts all the software and firmware from the phone and then rewrites the operating system from the very lowest levels. Well, almost the very lowest levels. And that's about it. What you'll see is your phone shut down, boot up, shut down again, boot back up and finally you'll see those initial sound up screens, the linen background, the simple options that you had when you first set up you iPhone.
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