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If the Restore button is greyed out, you haven t signed out of Find My on your iPhone. As soon as you have, the button is available and clicking it means your Mac will completely erase your iPhone.
It will then offer you the choice of setting the iPhone up as a new device, or restoring it from a previous backup. This is why it s important to have just done a backup as part of this process.
Seemingly the Mac will offer you any iPhone backup that it has, regardless of what Apple ID you re signed in as. Consequently, in
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The best ways to sell or trade in your old iPhone for 2021
Here s how to get your used phone ready to sell and get the most cash for it.
Out with the old, in with the new iPhone, that is. Whether you ve got your sights set on one of the new iPhone 12 models, a budget-friendly iPhone SE or last year s iPhone 11, 11 Pro or 11 Pro Max, you probably want to sell your old model to help finance the replacement. This guide outlines the best practices for selling your iPhone for the highest profit.
You want someone to get a fresh iPhone or iPad, but you also want to be sure no one gets your data with it. Here s how to make trading in, giving, or selling your iOS device painless for everyone.
If you re giving your old iPhone or iPad to a relative, you re going to get questions about it in return. There s nothing you can do there. But for everyone else, you can prepare your iOS device so that it works for them like it came straight from the factory.
Clearly, that s better for them, and clearly it also means you won t then have to worry about any of your data being inadvertently left on the device. But what s less immediately clear until it happens to you, is that preparing your old device correctly can help you with your new one.
If you re looking to get your hands on a new SIM deal with a different network, you may find that your iPhone is locked to your current carrier or network provider. The good news is it s usually easy to unlock an iPhone.
You should be able to get your network to unlock your iPhone for you; often the company will do it for free. In fact, you might even be able to unlock your phone yourself.
In this article we show how to unlock all iPhone models, including older models such as the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6s, either with an unlock code from the network itself which is usually free and easy, or by using a third-party service like Doctor SIM.