Wipe all deleted contacts on iPhone permanently

Before selling your old iPhone,you need to erase all contacts from iPhone,including those contacts have been deleted and those still stored in the phone's address book.Many iPhone users know that we must to erase all iPhone contacts before selling it,but when we delete contacts by clicking the simple "Delete" is not enough, and "Erase All Content and Settings" doesn't really delete data, because data recovery in market can recover those deleted contacts easily.Howeve,how to erase deleted contacts from iPhone permanently?

erase deleted contacts on iPhone

Here I strongly recommend this contacts eraser: iPhone Data Eraser. It can erase deleted contacts on iPhone with one click. And the deleted contacts cannot be restored by any data recovery tools. iPhone Data Eraser is compatible with iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S/4/3GS and any iPad, iPod. There are the steps below.This article main teach you use a iPhone data erase tool to wipe all deleted contacts from iPhone directly.

   

How to Erase Deleted Contacts from iPhone Permanently

Step 1: Backup iPhone Contact to Computer
Before you begin the next step, you should seriously do a full backup of your important contacts to computer first. All deleted iPhone data will be wiped permanetly and it won't be retrieved. Please make backup first.Here,I recommend you this iPhone to computer transfer to backup contacts from iPhone to computer directly.

Step 2: Connect iPhone to computer
After you backup iPhone data, run iPhone Data Eraser. And Connect your iPhone to computer.

Step 3: Select the right mode
After connecting your iPhone suceessfully, choose the first one: Erase all content and settings.
There are three security levels to erase all data on your device. You can choose any of them according to your requirement. Higher levels will ask for more time. Here, let’s choose the medium one.

Tips: Low: Overwrite all of your data with zeros to ensure that the files are not recoverable.
Medium: Overwrite your device with junk files to ensure that the files are not recoverable, and no one knows that you've erased your device.(the default one)
High: Erase and overwrite your device three times, and the security standard is based on the U.S. DOD 5220.22-M, more secure for confidential data destruction on your device.

If you've choose "ERASE DELETED FILES", then the iOS Data Eraser will scan your device, displaying all the files you've deleted

Afer scanning deleted files, you can select unwanted data to erase.

Step 4: Start deleting contacts on iPhone
Then click "Start" button to delete all the data on your iPhone now. Please keep iPhone connected to computer during the process. Your iPhone data will be erased.

Note: Don't try to restore iPhone from iCloud or iTunes, or the lost data and deleted messages will be back. Transfer the useful data that you've backed up previously to your iPhone. You can put it back to your iPhone after the deleting.

  

You can't find any contacts on your iPhone, even with ios data recovery tools. As a matter of fact, the tool supports from iOS 5.0 to iOS 7.0, including iPhone, iPad and iPod. Here are file types supported to erase, such as message, contact, email, note, reminder, system setting, photo, bookmark and more

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