Are you planning to upgrade your smartphone, to sell your old device, or to give it to a child or friend?

Were you planning to "factory reset" your device to clean out all your data?

Unfortunately, in many cases, "factory resetting" a device does not stop later users from accessing your data.

Here is why and what you have to do to securely wipe your phone.

Factory resetting a device may make your files, photos, and other materials disappear from being seen by normal users, but it does not necessarily remove the files' actual contents from the device's storage; the material that you want to prevent from being seen may remain accessible.

In many cases, deleting causes the locations in storage utilized by files to be marked as unused, so that other items may be stored there, but leaves files resident in the former locations. Until the data is actually overwritten, anyone who has your device after you and downloads a readily available tool can obtain your information.

So, how can you best make sure that your data cannot be retrieved by a subsequent user of your device? It's a 5-step process:
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