How to safely wipe your Android clean

Are you looking to discard your old Android phone for good? Here is How to safely wipe your Android clean and make sure that all your old data can’t be recovered by anyone.

In this article, you can read about the steps to safely wipe your smartphone clean. Ensuring your sensitive information stays protected, even if it’s non-functioning.

How to safely wipe your Android clean

Wiping the data remotely

If you lose an Android phone, you can erase it remotely using Find My Device. If you’ve added a Google Account to your device, Find My Device is automatically turned on.

On a browser, go to android.com/find. Sign in to your Google Account If you have more than one device: At the top of the sidebar, select the device. 

If your device has more than one user profile: Sign in with a Google Account that’s on the main or personal profile.

Once that’s sorted then you will need to find the menu On the left. Here select ERASE DEVICE. It will then ask to confirm that it is really you by using your passkey.

It will then prompt you to confirm your decision again. Tap ERASE DEVICE. Note: This permanently deletes all data on your device but may not delete SD cards. After you erase it, Find My Device won’t work on the device.

If your phone still has a physical SIM card, take it out of the phone before getting rid of the phone in any way.

While there may still be data you saved directly to the phone, the SIM card will at least prevent anyone from using your phone number if they are, for some reason, able to get the phone running again. If you use an eSIM, contact your cellphone network carrier to have them disable it from your device.

Clearing out a dead Phone

Sometimes a phone may appear to be completely dead while there is actually just an issue with the screen. You would have no idea of that since you can’t turn your phone on. Try plugging it into a computer to see if you’re able to retrieve any data.

For more information on how to do this, head to Cyberguy.com/MobileBackup.

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