How to Erase iPhone Contacts, SMS and Photo Permanently

“I am going to sell my iPhone 4 to get the new iPhone 5s , so wondering how can erase all my Contacts and SMS. Don’t want to do restore as the person wants all the application that are installed on my iPhone.Thanks for your help”--Cindykimi

“I have bought and new iPhone 5,so I want to present my old iPhone 4 to my cousin.However,I want to wipe photo and personal data permanently from my old iPhone 4 before present to my cousin,my iPhone was jailbroken,are there any way to erase photo and personal information on iPhone 4 ?”--Loular

As the above two cases,if you want to erase, delete, wipe data from iPhone,you can use a professional iPhone Data Eraser tool. This iPhone data eraser not only supports erase contacts from iPhone, but also can help you wipe text messages, photos and other personal information on iPhone, iPhone data eraser software helps you keep your personal information safe, permanently remove everything from your iPhone easily.What’s more,this data eraser software works well with iPad and iPod,so it allows you wipe all data from iPad and iPod permanently. Next, let’s show you how to erase files from iPhone forever.
    
Tutorial: Wipe/Delete iPhone Contacts, SMS and Photo Permanently?

Step 1. Run the iPhone data eraser and connect your iPhone to the computer.

After run the iPhone Data Eraser on your computer, and then connect your iPhone to a computer with a USB cable. When the ios data eraser program recognizes your iPhone device, you’ll see the ios data eraser main interface as follows.


 
Note: If you don’t want to erase important data, please backup those you need to computer with iPhone to Computer Transfer.

Step 2. Choose Erase all data on device and click on it
The WIPE OVER means to erase all data and settings permanently.


 
Note: “WIPE DELETED FILES” is not available yet.

Step 3. Click on the Start button to delete whole data on your iPhone, including contacts, sms, photo.
There are three security levels to erase all recent contacts on your iPhone. You can choose any of them to your requirement. Higher levels will ask for more time. Here we’ll choose the default one --- the medium one which will overwrite your iPhone with junk files ensure that the files can not be recoverable and no one knows that you’ve deleted all data on your iPhone. What they can recover from your iPhone are all junk files. And then click “START WIPE”.


 
Note: The low level - the software will erase and overwrite all your data with zeros to ensure that the files are not recoverable. When recovering data from your iPhone, you can only find zeros from it.
The high level - it meets the DOD5220 – 22M standard. When you choose this level, the data on your iPhone will be erased and overwritten by three times. You can get a better insurance.

Step 4. Click “Done” and the wiping completed
After a few minutes, all the data will be wiped permanently. You can get your iPhone as a new one. And recent contacts will not showing up in your text history. Now you have erased contacts, text messages and photo from iPhone these easy steps.



In additional the iPhone Data Eraser tool permanently erase all contacts, sms from the iPhone and resetting system setting with just one click. What’s more the ios data eraser can wipe other data from iPhone, iPad and iPod easily, including message, call history, app, music, photos, bookmark,ect.
    

Related Software

Besides, you can also use MobileTrans to one click permanent delete all data including contacts, photos, videos, messages, notes, Safari Bookmarks, Apple ID, and other personal informations on your old iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with easy.

Notes: MobileTrans for Mac can only transfer data between iDevices and Android on Mac at present, such as transfer data from iPhone to iPad on Mac, transfer data from Android to iPhone, sync data from Android to Android on Mac and so on.

You can download a trial version here:
     

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