How to Erase Text Messages on iPhone Permanently Before Selling?

Before selling your old iPhone and buy a new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus,you may want to find a easy way to delete SMS from your iPhone permanently. As we all know that the simple deletion won't really delete iPhone text messages permanently. To delete text messages from iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS without restore, you need a professional iPhone SMS Eraser software.

By default, all incoming and outgoing text messages are saved in iPhone’s internal hard drive. When you delete a message from your iPhone, the phone system will mark it as deleted and you will be unable to view it on your phone. But a special data recovery tool for iPhone can recover deleted text messages from iPhone in a breeze, even if you restore your iPhone to the factory default settings.

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Therefore, it is very dangerous to resell, donate or abandon your old phone before you permanently delete your private information, because you don’t know who will get your iPhone and what they will do with your old data.

Erase Text Messages on iPhone Permanently with iPhone SMS Eraser

The most secure way is using professional third-party software like iPhone Data Eraser software (for Windows 8/7/XP/Vista) or iPhone Data Eraser for Mac, which is a reliable and effective tool to smash everything on your iPhone 5/4S/3GS, including contacts, messages, photos, videos, apps, account info, passwords, photos and other personal data. After erasing iPhone data by using this program, no any data recovery tool like iPhone Text Messages Eraser software can recover any data from your iPhone. Your iPhone will turn to a clean slate and even the government recovery facility can do nothing with it.

iPhone Data Eraser software is easy to use and allows you to finish the data erasing task in 3 simple steps. Download the free trial version of the software and then follow the steps as below to go through the task. Here, we will set Windows version as an example. Mac users can turn to the Mac version and follow the same operations as below.

   

How to deleted SMS from your old iPhone permanently?

Step 1: Connect iPhone to Computer and Run Software

Click the download button from above to get the installation package of the software. Install it and click the shortcut icon from the desktop to launch it on your computer. Then, connect your iPhone to the computer via Apple provided USB cable and you will see the program detect the iPhone automatically.

Step 2: Choose Lever of Data Erasing as You Want

The program provides you with three different levers for erasing data: Low - Medium - High. You can directly choose the default second Medium lever, which will leave no traceability of data erasure and use random data to overwrite all existing and deleted data on your iPhone.

Step 3: Start to Delete text messages on Your iPhone

Choose the text messages you want to delete from your iPhone and click the option of erase all data and settings to delete them all from your iPhone.

We kindly suggest you backup all the data you don't want beforehand because the deletion perform by the software is 100% permanent and you can't recover the deleted files any more.