How to Delete All Contacts on iPhone Permanently before selling?

To delete all iPhone contacts once and for all can be a laborious task since iPhone only allows us to delete one single contact at a time. What if we have hundreds of contacts saved on iPhone that needed to be deleted? We can imagine how tedious it would be to delete them one by one. But we may always need to delete multiple or all contacts on iPhone for some reason. So how to delete iPhone contacts once and for all with ease? This article will show you the way out. Keep reading and follow the tutorial below to delete all contacts on iPhone 5S/5C/5/4S/4/3GS.. And the most common and direct way to delete contacts from an iPhone may be simply tapping the "Delete" button. To do so:

1. Turn on your iPhone and launch the Contacts app;
2. Select an contact that you want to delete from your iPhone;
3. Navigate to the top right corner to tap the "Edit" option;
4. Now turn to the bottom of your contact and tap the button of "Delete Contact".
It seems that you have successfully deleted your contacts from the iPhone. However, believe it or not, these deleted contacts can still be recovered by other people who use special data recovery software. The storing principle of iPhone is that once you erase data from iPhone, they are just marked as deleted and become invisible. They are still here and can be recovered back as long as they haven't been overwritten by new data. If you want to delete all the contacts in your iPhone forever, you need to draw support from third-party software.
Deleting iPhone Contacts Permanently with iPhone Data Eraser

Erase/Delete iPhone Contacts Permanently

As I mentioned above, the only way delete contacts permanently from iPhone is depending on a professional data erasing application. To save your time to look for a suitable tool by trial and error, you can try my recommendation: iPhone Data Eraser (for Windows 8/7/XP/Vista) or iPhone Data Eraser for Mac, which is fully capable of performing a quicker and easier contact erasing process on all iPhone models at once. It not only delete data from iPhone without recoverable, but also rewrite with radom data in order to cover the erasing track. In addition to contacts, text messages, videos, photos, account info, passwords and more can be erase by this iPhone data eraser tool.

  

Below is the tutorial showing you how to wipe contacts from iPhone by using iPhone Data Eraser. The Windows and Mac version are both available, so you should get the right version downloaded on your computer. Here, we will set Windows version as an example. Mac users can turn to the Mac version and refer to the same operations as below.

How to Delete All iPhone Contacts at once!

In order to delete contacts from iPhone once and for all, you need the help of iPhone Data Eraser which is a powerful software for iPhone users to delete iPhone contacts as well as other files, such as photos, messages, videos and so on. With this iPhone contact eraser, you can simply delete all iPhone contacts within 3 steps only. Firstly you'd better download the trial version for free and install it on your PC.

** Please note that the deleted iPhone contacts can not be recovered from iPhone even with the world's no.1 data recovery software once they are deleted by iPhone Data Eraser. So you'd better make a backup of your iPhone for the sake of restoring the contacts in the future.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer

After running the iPhone Data Eraser on your computer, connect your iPhone to it. Your iPhone will be detected automatically, and you will get an interface as below.

Step 2. Choose the right data erasing option

iPhone Data Eraser program provides two ways of data erasing for you: "Erase all files on iOS devices" and "Erase deleted data". Select the first one to move forward.

Step 3. Delete all contacts on your iPhone

There are three choices available for you to delete your iPhone contacts. Among the "High, Medium, Low", you are recommended to choose the "Medium" level, which takes the moderate time to delete the data. Click "Start" button to begin deleting iPhone contacts.

After the deleting process, your iPhone will become a completely new device. If in other cases, you accidentally deleted your iPhone contacts, you can use iPhone Data Recovery program to recover lost contacts on iPhone. But please note that contacts deleted by iPhone Data Eraser would be unrecoverable any more even with iPhone data recovery tool.

But please beware that photos deleted by iPhone Data Eraser would be unrecoverable any more even with iPhone data recovery tool as we have said previously.

  

Download the iPhone data eraser to wipe all contacts on your iPhone.

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