before you think of selling or giving way your Apple’s products such as iphones, ipods, ipads and ipod touch, you should follow this steps and guidelines. manually deleting your accessories such as documents, calenders, streams,contacts, photos,reminders and of course any other icloud data while you are signed in to icloud with your Apple ID.this would delete your contents from APPLE’S ICLOUD SERVERS and any devices you signed in to icloud.

To be on the safer and better end kindly adhere and follow this steps and guidelines .
1: If you have paired your Apple Watch with any Apple products such as Iphone, kindly unpair your Apple Watch
2: Now you need to backup your IOS devices
3: Tap setting> iclod, scroll down a bit and tap in SIGNOUT. in IOS7 or earlierdevices just tap delete Account and you are Good to go .
4: Tap SIGNOUT again, then tap delete FROM MY IPHONE and Enter your password.
5: Go back to settings and Tap GENERAL>RESET> ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS. if you try to turned on FIND MY IPHONE, you might need to enter up your Apple iD and password.
6: If you are asked for your device password or Restrictions Passcode, Enter it then you can now tap ERASE[device].

NOTE: please kindly note this following guidelines. when you tap ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTING, it completely erases your device including if you have any credit or debits cards you might have added to Apple Pay and any photos, musics, contacts. this would turn off icloud imessage, game center, facetime and other Apple services or devices but your content won’t be deleted from icloud.com when you erase your devices.
IF YOU NO LONGER HAVE YOUR IOS DEVICE DONT WORRY JUST FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW
If you abide strictly by following the above steps and its weren’t completed and you no longer have your IOS device, don’t get panic, just follow the steps below.

1: Using the above step kindly ask the new owner to erase all content and settings.
2: For those of you using icloud and FIND MY IPHONE on the device, please SIGN IN to icloud.com/find>select the device and click ERASE.when the device has been erased, kindly click REMOVE FROM ACCOUNT.
3:if you find the above steps confusing or ambiguous, don’t worry, just change your Apple ID password. this will not remove personal information stored on your old device but it will prevent the owner from deleting your information from icloud.
4: De-register Imessage if you’re switching to a non Apple Phone.
5: For those using Apple Pay, you can remove your debits or credits cards at Apple’s icloud.com. kindly choose settings , this will help you see which device are using Apple Pay . you are now free to click REMOVE.
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