How to reset or completely wipe your iPhone or iPad

Hello everyone, dear readers, in today’s undoubtedly useful material, I will tell you how you can quickly and effortlessly reset your iPhone (4s – 5s) to factory settings, and delete all the information on it. You can do this, almost like any other operation in iOS, in just a few taps.

Possible reasons for resetting an iPhone (4s – 5s) to factory settings and erasing all files and data on this iPhone:

1. Sale. The most obvious and understandable reason. If you are going to sell your iPhone (4s - 5s), then of course you need to delete all data on it so that third parties do not take possession of it;
2. Poor speed. Also, one of the reasons for resetting an iPhone or iPad is its low performance and slow operating speed. In most cases, completely erasing the iPhone or iPad and collecting settings will solve this problem.
3. Get rid of trash. This is such a strange reason. Sometimes, some owners just want to clean their mobile gadget iPhone (4s - 5s) from unnecessary files, in other words, from garbage.

So, for whatever reason you want to reset your iPhone or iPad and erase it, in any case, the method described below will come in handy.

Preparation

Before you clean your iPhone (4s – 5s), you need to back it up.

You never know what can go wrong, and having a backup copy on your computer, you can always return everything back:

1. Launch iTunes and connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer using a USB cable;
2. Go to the main iTunes window and select the “Browse” tab;
3. Next, you need to find the “Backups” section and in this section click on the “Make a backup copy” button;
4. Complete the backup process.

Restoring settings

If you just need to reset your iPhone or iPad to factory settings, without completely erasing all your data (that is, the data will be erased, but the files will remain), then you can use the instructions below:

If you need to completely clean an iPhone (4s – 5s) or iPad, then use the following instructions.

Complete wipe from device

In order to completely erase your iPhone (4s - 5s) or iPad gadget, you need to do several sequential steps. Don't be afraid, they are not complicated:

In principle, if you are not preparing your gadget for sale, you can stop at this stage.

If you are cleaning an iPhone or iPad for the purpose of selling, then you will need to perform one more operation - log out of your iCloud account.

This is done very simply:

1. Take your gadget and go to the “Settings” section;
2. Next, you need to go to the iCloud section;
3. In the window that opens, go down to the very bottom and click the “Exit” button.

That's all, in principle, all the operations that needed to be performed to clean an iPhone (4s - 5s) or iPad.

Via iTunes

You can also restore your mobile gadget using iTunes:

1. Launch iTunes and connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer using a USB cable;
2. In the main window, in the “Overview” section, find the “Restore” button and click it;
3. After a certain amount of time has passed (usually no more than five minutes), your gadget will be restored.

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