[Duncan7722]

Hello, I'm going to sell my old iPhone 6, I found there're many private messages on it and I deleted them, but I was worried if the other guys could recover my deleted messages? If so, how can I make the deleted messages never be recovered by any softwares?

Edited by Duncan7722, 26 April 2016 - 01:37 AM.

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Well, this is not normal but if the guy was smart enough, he can get the deleted messages back in 3 means:
1. He had the iTunes backup of the phone (less impossible)

2. He got your iCloud account (possible)

3. directly scan the phone and recover deleted files from the device.

 

So you should be very careful before selling your phone.

Edited by glenndmel, 26 April 2016 - 08:14 PM.

[glenndmel]

Well, this is not normal but if the guy was smart enough, he can get the deleted messages back in 3 means:
1. He had the iTunes backup of the phone (less impossible)

2. He got your iCloud account (possible)

3. directly scan the phone and recover deleted files from the device.

 

So you should be very careful before selling your phone.

Edited by glenndmel, 26 April 2016 - 08:14 PM.

[Suunlly]

Well, this is not normal but if the guy was smart enough, he can get the deleted messages back in 3 means:
1. He had the iTunes backup of the phone (less impossible)

2. He got your iCloud account (possible)

3. directly scan the phone and recover deleted files from the device.

 

So you should be very careful before selling your phone.

 

I don't think the "already deleted messages" can be recovered due to the messages was over written by new data.

[Duncan7722]

Hello, glenndmel. But did you know how can I completely erase the deleted data from iPhone without recovery?

[glenndmel]

 

Well, this is not normal but if the guy was smart enough, he can get the deleted messages back in 3 means:
1. He had the iTunes backup of the phone (less impossible)

2. He got your iCloud account (possible)

3. directly scan the phone and recover deleted files from the device.

 

So you should be very careful before selling your phone.

 

I don't think the "already deleted messages" can be recovered due to the messages was over written by new data.

 

If you don't believe it, then you can test it with certain data recovery software. I am sure the result will be a big surprise.

 

 

Hello, glenndmel. But did you know how can I completely erase the deleted data from iPhone without recovery?

 

If you are keen with your data, then here is a great guide on this: how to permanently delete iphone messages. Hope this helps. It works great on my iPhone 6S.

[Suunlly]

 

 

Well, this is not normal but if the guy was smart enough, he can get the deleted messages back in 3 means:
1. He had the iTunes backup of the phone (less impossible)

2. He got your iCloud account (possible)

3. directly scan the phone and recover deleted files from the device.

 

So you should be very careful before selling your phone.

 

I don't think the "already deleted messages" can be recovered due to the messages was over written by new data.

 

If you don't believe it, then you can test it with certain data recovery software. I am sure the result will be a big surprise.

 

 

Hello, glenndmel. But did you know how can I completely erase the deleted data from iPhone without recovery?

 

If you are keen with your data, then here is a great guide on this: how to permanently delete iphone messages. Hope this helps. It works great on my iPhone 6S.

 

 

Thanks, I will try it, I have a question for that, does it need to jailbreak my iPhone? I don't want to Jailbreak!

[Dwaaty]

You can have a try this to deleted data on your iphone . Tap “Settings” -> “General” -> “Reset”. Select “Erase All Content and Settings” and tap “Erase iPhone” to confirm. Although, you can deleted data. But in fact, this way doesn't permanently erase iPhone data. When you use some data recovery tool, you can recover deleted data easily. So you need one powerful tool to permanently erase data from iPhone without restoring.

How to permanently delete text messages
 

Edited by Dwaaty, 20 July 2016 - 12:18 AM.

[Lily14]

These inputs are very useful. I thought that if messages are deleted long ago, the memories would be overwritten by some other data, and eventually completed erased.

[tgyter]

Best way is iphone eraser

[thedronefan101]

I do not know it is right or not. But i do read some opinion said, if the storage been rewrite so many times, the chances is zero to get back old message. But if just delete that, and just format it for the one time only, the chances could get the data still 50/50 chance but only the expert could get that

[berley]

If you need to delete data from your idevices completely, use an ios data eraser tool, I think that is helpful.

You can erase all data without possibility to recover them, but remember to backup them first.

Edited by berley, 23 March 2017 - 08:16 PM.

[Kiyomi]

It is necessary to delete your pravite data permanently before selling your iPhone. You need a professional iPhone Data Eraser software. This kind of iOS data eraser app can easily find the deleted files on your iPhone and then remove them forever from your iPhone. How to Erase Text Messages on iPhone  Permanently

Edited by Kiyomi, 19 April 2017 - 11:48 PM.