How to Properly Reset iPhone to factory default

hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and i want to show you how to reset your iphone to factory default meaning that it will be just like it was when you took it out of the box for the first time and so this will help you erase all data from it disassociate it from your account and make it so the next person that either purchases it or that you give it to or maybe you're returning it can sign in without having to sign in to find my friends or any of those accounts because it won't be locked to your account so in order to do this properly what you'll need is a couple things you'll need the device's passcode to unlock it and you'll also need the icloud account password if you don't have that you won't be able to reset it so if you need to reset that password go to icloud.com and then you can reset your password there now before you erase everything on your phone you want to make sure that you have a backup if you're going to continue using iphone so if you're going from an old phone to a new phone i have other videos to show you how to do that and transfer all of your settings including the same app layout and all the app data and messages and everything else but if you want to just have a backup in general make sure that you're either using itunes on windows itunes on mac on an older mac or you use the finder click on your device and hit backup now however if you want to back up using icloud that's even easier as long as you have the storage available and you do that by going to settings under settings tap on your name then under your name or whatever phone you're on here you want to go to icloud and under icloud down towards the bottom you'll see icloud backup and under icloud backup tap on this you'll see that it's on and as long as it's backing up everything it will give you the last successful backup below and as long as it's backed up you're good to go that will back up not only your settings but your messages your mail settings you may have to enter a few passwords and things in the future but it will back up even the layout of your apps and most of the app data as well so as long as you have that backing up or you've backed up on itunes you should be good to go and once you know that you have your information secure we can move on to removing everything off the device now in order to reset the phone what you want to do is once you have that information go into settings and then at the top you'll have your name or someone else's name whoever's it is tap on the name here and go down to find my we need to turn off find my if it's on so tap on find my and you'll see it says find my iphone and it's on on my device so i need to turn this off now in order to turn this off i need my icloud password so go ahead and tap on find my iphone and then turn off find my iphone it will pop up asking for your apple id password once you put this in it will turn it off now that find my iphone is off we want to remove it from our account as well this will make it easier in the future unless you're setting it up for yourself so let's go ahead and do that so we'll go back now once you've turned off find my iphone on the same account page we need to scroll to the bottom to turn off icloud and disassociate the phone from our account so let's go ahead and scroll down and all the way at the bottom it says sign out so we'll tap on sign out now it's saying do you want to keep a copy of your data on this phone and you don't want to do that if you're erasing the phone so make sure all of these are turned off if you did want to keep this and sign in with another icloud id then you would leave those on otherwise keep them off and hit sign out and it says are you sure you want to sign out and then go ahead and hit sign out and then it says copying icloud data that's just to the cloud you won't necessarily have that on this phone and then we'll erase the phone in just a moment once we've signed out now once you've signed out of the iphone what you'll need to do is go down and reset it so under the main settings just scroll down and go to general scroll all the way to the bottom of general and then you have reset so we'll tap on reset and then there's a few options here we want to erase all content and settings so all of these other things don't matter erase all content and settings and then it's going to ask you for the passcode of the device itself so maybe your touch id wasn't working it's that same passcode and this will work for face id phones as well once you've put that passcode in it's asking you if you want to erase it again it's just a safety check so it says this will delete all media and data and reset all settings so you want to hit erase iphone and then you'll have to hit erase iphone again and it will take a moment and the phone will reboot now the same thing applies to all iphones so this is my iphone 11 pro max and you can see here it says erase iphone if i hit erase and erase again it will wipe the phone so that's how you completely wipe it we'll wait for this to reboot and you'll see that it's back at the setup screen now will take a little bit of time to erase and reset and once it's done it will look just like this and you're at the main startup screen again and so this is where you can set your phone up we just press home to open on this phone and we'll start set it up just like it was new you can hand this to someone else to use give it to someone else sell it return it either way all of your information has been removed from the phone and it's good to go it won't be associated with your icloud account and it won't be activation locked or anything like that so you'll be good to use it hand it to someone else and you're all set and if you don't have the wallpaper from the iphone se that i have here from 2020 i'll link it in the description for you just like i always do in all my other videos if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time you

Channel: zollotech

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Length: 5min 51sec (351 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020