Deleting Iphone contents online

I have given my Iphone 5 to my son he has gone away I want to delete all contents but can only do it online as i dont have the phone now how do I do this. Thanks in advance

The iPhone is certainly different from ordinary phones. Merely inserting a SIM card will not activate it. It has then to be connected to iTunes and the SIM and iPhone IMEI associated together. Its a way of stopping the iPhone being used without you also taking out a dedicated account with the authorised network in your country (AT&T in the US, O2 in the UK etc). Even inserting the completely legal SIM card from my 3G iPhone into the old one does not make it work. The screen shows that I have also to connect the phone to iTunes and go through the setup/activation procedure again. This is why I was hoping there might be a way to access the phone without a SIM card, not to use any network features, just to delete data (which I now realise I should have done before I transferred the SIM to my new phone).

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