If I reset my iphone (errase data and settings) is there any program that can recover information or deleted photos?
I'm asking this beacuase I want to sell my iphone 4 and before I will errase it, but I want to ensure that the next user will not be able to have acces o recover information such as deleted photos from my phone, I know there are programs that recover deleted stuff from your iphone but do they work after errasing it completely?
I'm not sure how flash storage works, but there's usually a very decent way of making sure no one accesses your data: first, erase your phone. After that, fill it with crap - you can use iTunes or whatever, and just either fill it with rubish images, or better yet videos (that you don't mind anyone recovering later). Then erase it again. If someone runs a recover data program on it, they will only find the last data you inserted.
Make sure to completely fill the iPhones available space with crap.
If you are really nervous - again, not sure if this is necessary for flash storage - but you can repeat this process a couple more times (erase and fill with crap), just to make sure. One time should be fine, though.
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