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In present times market is flooded with new models of smartphones on daily basis and users are frequently switching to new models with more advanced features. But what do you do with your old smartphones - donate, trade or gift. I am sure that we all are so smart and alert that we don’t forget to put our old phone on ‘factory reset’ before parting with. 

But is that enough and safe..!

You will be shocked to know that this doesn’t properly remove everything from your old device. It’s a general practice but in reality restoring your phone to factory settings deletes the file system but doesn’t actually overwrite the data. 

Yes it’s true that with the help of easily accessible software one can retrieve your photos, videos, documents, messages, passwords and many more things. So to be sure of not letting your data to fall into some wrong hands you can completely wipe your smartphone data by adopting any of the following suggestions before parting with your device.

The option one available for this is to encrypt the data before putting it on factory reset. 

On devices using Android 6.0 and above data gets encrypted by default. In other older versions you can add encryption by going to Settings > Security > Encrypt phone.  

Make sure to also sign out your accounts such as Google etc. to be safe. Now you can go ahead with the factory reset. 

Similarly for iPhone, iOS 5 or above hardware encryption is there when you set the passcode.

Other option available is the remote wipe which is generally included by all phone makers through tools provided to this effect. This can be done through Android Device Manager also. Similar to iPhone also, if you can’t retrieve your phone you can easily wipe all of the data on your device.