How to Erase iPhone Text Messages Permanently?

The iPhone comes with a text messaging application that allows users to send, receive and store all conversations in text message format. These text messages record all the secrets between you and your friends and the iPhone may even know you more than your family. But when you want to give away your old iPhone for a new one, or if you worry about your text messages to be peeped by others, then, it will be quite necessary to learn how to erase all messages on iPhone permanently, for the sake of your privacy. But, is simple deletion enough?

Erase/Deleted iPhone SMS

By default, all incoming and outgoing text messages are saved in iPhone’s internal hard drive. When you delete messages on 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. 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.

Deleted iPhone Text Messages Permanently with iPhone SMS Eraser

The most secure way is using professional third-party software like iPhone Data Eraser (for Windows&Mac), which is a useful data eraser to clean up everything on your iPhone 5S/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 Data Recovery 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 SMS Eraser 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.

  

3 Steps to Erase All SMS on iPhone Permanently

Step 1. Connect iPhone to Computer and Run Software

Download and install the data erasing program on your computer. Double-click on the desktop program shortcut to launch it and you will see its interface showing like below picture. Connect your iPhone from which you want to delete SMS to your computer via the Apple provided USB cable and the connected iPhone will be detected by the program automatically.
Tips: All iPhone models can be supported by this program, such as iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, etc.

Step 2. Choose Lever of Data Erasing as You Want

The program provides you with three levels of data erasing. The first level will erase your iPhone data quickly to save your time. The second level will leave no trace ability of data erasure and use random data to overwrite all existing and deleted data on your iPhone. The third level is the most secure option which will write over the data 3 times. You can directly use the default second level. Choose the text messages you want to delete forever.

Step 3. Start to Erase text messages on Your iPhone

After choosing your wanted erasing level and the text messages folder, you can choose the option of erase all data and settings to delete all text messages from your iPhone.

Step 4. Click “Done” and the wiping completed

After a few minutes, all the data will be wiped permanently. You can get your iPhone as a new one. And recent contacts will not showing up in your text history. Now you have erased contacts, text messages and photo from iPhone these easy steps.

Well done! All the text messages, including incoming messages and outgoing messages are all successfully erased from your iPhone.

Free download the iPhone Data Eraser to wipe all messages on your iPhone:

  

Now, you will never need to worry about your private text messages from revealing. Since the irretrievable feature of the program, do remember backup important data on your iPhone before you start to use this iPhone Transfer program to perform the permanent deletion.

How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on iPhone

If you often use your iPhone to send or receive messages, all the SMS messages are on your iPhone, once your iPhone was lost or stolen, how to retrieve lost iPhone text messages? After update your iPhone 5, iPhone 5s to iOS 7 cause lost text messages, how to restore deleted messages from iPhone iOS 7? Is there any easy way to recover deleted sms from iPhone on Mac?

Recover delete sms on iPhone

To restore deleted messages on iPhone,you need to use a professional iOS Data Recovery.

iPhone Data Recovery works for iPhone/iPad/iPod users to retrieve deleted or lost photos, contacts, videos, notes and so forth in a very easy and reliable way. You can surely count on it to get all your deleted messages back as soon as possible.

Download the free trial version below to have a try. Choose the right version for your computer.

    

The iPhone Data Recovery provide you three ways to restore deleted sms from iPhone:

Way 1: How to Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S/4/3GS
Way 2: How to Retrieve iPhone Text Messages from iTunes Backup
Way 3: How to Retrieve iPhone Text Messages from iCloud Backup

Let’s teach you how to restore sms from iPhone directly without iTunes/iCloud backup.

Restore Deleted Text Messages from iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S/4

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to computer

After connecting your iPhone to your computer and launching the program, the interface for iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S and iPhone 4/3GS will be a little different. You will see the interface as follows:

For iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S users, there is only a "Start Scan" button on the interface for you to press. After connecting you iPhone to the computer, you need to click the "Start Scan" button to scan your iPhone.

For iPhone 4/3GS users, you'll see the interface below after connecting your device. You need to download a plug-in by clicking the "Download" button, you will get the interface as below.

Step 2. Follow instructions to scan your iPhone

Before you perform the recovery software, you ought to enter the system of your iPhone. Please follow the steps below:
1. Hold your iPhone and click the "Start" button.
2. Pressing the "Power" and "Home" buttons simultaneously for 10 seconds.
3. After 10 seconds, release the "Power" button, but keep holding "Home" for another 15 seconds.

For iPhone 5s/5c/5/4s users, you'll see this scanning window immediately after clicking the "Start Scan" button when you entered the system.

Step 3. Preview and recover messages from iPhone

After finishing scanning, all found data will be listed in order. Choose "Messages" to preview the detailed content. Mark the wanted ones and save them on your computer by clicking "Recover".

Note: This is the whole steps of How to Restore Deleted Text Messages from iPhone 5s/5c/5/4S/4/3GS, hope it can satisfy you. If not, you can get a rough idea of the second choice in the contents below: How to Retrieve iPhone Text Messages from iTunes Backup, it provides you an alternative method to Recover Deleted Text Messages from iPhone.

    

Tips: If you want to delete all sms on iPhone without restore them,you can use a professional iPhone data eraser to delete iPhone messages permanently.Before selling your old iPhone device,please remember erase all sms,contacts,photos,videos,ect from your iPhone without restored.

How to Delete iPhone Text Messages Permanently?

Do you want to delete iPhone data and free up your iOS device storage space up to 60%? Before selling your old iPhone,you need to erase all iPhone data permanently and completely,to completely delete text messages from iPhone, erase all contacts on iPhone,you must to use a professional iOS data eraser tool, you can iOS-cleaning tool to remove all text messages in few minutes permanently.

Delete iPhone SMS,Contacts data

The following is a true story:

“I want to sell my old iPhone 4s,when I delete iPone messages by the default “Delete” setting,  some data recovery in market will restore them back easily,if I erase all messages on iPhone by “restore factory setting”,but we also can get them back with iPhone data recovery.
When I go to Settings>General>Usuage> I see that I have 3.2GB of messages stored. Can someone tell me how to delete messages on iPhoner? I don't even know where all of these messages could be stored. I have no need to save any text messages…Please someone help me erase all messages on iPhone permanently,even no one data recovery can recover them back,is there any idea how to help me…”--- Ask by sueson from Apple Support Communities

Answer: To deleted iPhone messages permanently,you can use the third party application iPhone SMS Eraser tool-iOS Data Eraser,which can delete text messages on iPhone completely. It is the world’s first iOS-cleaning tool to erase contacts, text messages, photos, videos, notes, Apple ID and privacy from iPhone, iPad and iPod permanently. Through its cleaning process, it can prevent other from recovering deleted files from iDevice if an iOS device user want to keep privacy.

Free download the iPhone Data Eraser and start to clean up all messages on your iPhone:

  

Tips: This iPhone data eraser also applies to other iDevices. which is really a big deal for an 8GB/16GB iPhone user,or provides for those who want to sell their ios devices.

How to Delete iPhone Messages Permanently and Completely

Can't Miss: Before Delete Text Messages on your iPhone Completely,you may want to know How to Transfer Text Messages from iPhone to Computer,and make sure your important data is not deleted.

Step 1.Do backup important iPhone data to computer

Before you begin the next step, you should seriously do a full backup of your important data first. All deleted iPhone data will be wiped permanetly and it
won't be retrieved. Please make backup first. Here,we recommend you use this iPhone to Computer Transfer,which allows you backup contacts,messages, photos, videos and other data to computer directly.You can also use this iPhone transfer to copy data back to your iPhone from computer.

Step 2.Connect iPhone to computer with a USB cable

After you backup iPhone data, run iPhone Data Eraser. And Connect your iPhone to computer.

Connect iPhone to computer

Step 3.Select the right mode

After connecting your iPhone suceessfully, choose the first one: Erase all content and settings.
There are three security levels to erase all data on your device. You can choose any of them according to your requirement. Higher levels will ask for more
time. Here, let’s choose the medium one.

Select the right mode

Tips: Low: Overwrite all of your data with zeros to ensure that the files are not recoverable.
Medium: Overwrite your device with junk files to ensure that the files are not recoverable, and no one knows that you've erased your device.(the default one)
High: Erase and overwrite your device three times, and the security standard is based on the U.S. DOD 5220.22-M, more secure for confidential data
destruction on your device.

Step 4.Start deleting messages on iPhone permanently

Then click "Start" button to delete all the data on your iPhone now. Please keep iPhone connected to computer during the process. Your iPhone data will be
erased.

Note: Don't try to restore iPhone from iCloud or iTunes, or the lost data and deleted messages will be back. Transfer the useful data that you've backed up
previously to your iPhone. You can put it back to your iPhone after the deleting.

  

You can't find any old messages on it, even with professional ios data recovery tools. As a matter of fact, the tool supports from iOS 5.0 to iOS 7.0, including iPhone, iPad and iPod. This powerful iOS Data Eraser supports erase all data from iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, such as message, contact, email, note, reminder, system setting, photo, bookmark and more.If you have any question,please contacts us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/iPhone-Data-Eraser/237826213042203

How to Permanently Delete All iPhone Contacts Without Restore?

Need to get rid of unwanted contacts on your iPhone? Want to delete all the contacts from your iPhone at once? Want to sell your old iPhone and need to erase all iPhone contacts permanently? This article shows you the easy ways to delete contacts on iPhone,even no one can not recover them with any iPhone Data Recovery software in the market.

Delete all iPhone Contacts without restore

Warning by CNET: iPhone "Restore" does not delete personal data!
If you restore factory setting for your iPhone,it does’t mean “Erase” all iPhone data permanently,because some recovery software can restore them easily,you need to use a third-part data eraser tool to wipe iPhone data.

How to Permanently Erase Contacts on iPhone Without Restore?

To erase all contacts from iPhone permanently,you can use this professional iPhone data eraser application,which allows you delete all contacts from iPhone 5s, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, iPhone 4, iPhone 5c permanently,it also can help you erase other data from iPhone, iPad and iPod permanently without restore,including text messages, photos, videos, call history, Apple ID,ect. Now you can free download this iPhone data eraser to save your time to erase all iPhone data permanently,you cannot even recover them with any iPhone Data Recovery software in the market. Let’s show you a easy way to deleted contacts on iPhone permanently without restore.

   

Tips: Before use this iPhone data eraser to wipe all iPhone contents,please remember backup those contents you need to computer,here we recommend you use this iPhone to Computer Transfer,which allow you back up all data from iPhone to computer without data losing.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer

After installing and running the iPhone Data Eraser program on your computer, connect your iPhone to the computer. Then your iPhone will be detected by the program automatically, and you will get a window as below.

Connect your iPhone to the computer

Step 2. Choose the right option on your device
You should choose the "ERASE ALL DATA ON DEVICE" option, so that you can continue the subsequent steps.

ERASE ALL DATA ON iPhone

Step 3. Delete contacts on your iPhone permanently

You will see three available choices to delete your iPhone data. Among the "High, Medium, Low", you are recommended to choose the "Medium" level, which takes the moderate time in deleting. Then you need to click "Start" button to begin the processing.

Delete contacts on iPhone permanently

Note:
1. For Low level, iPhone Data Eraser will erase and overwrite all your data with zeros to ensure that the data are not recoverable. When you want to restoring files from your iPhone, you can only find zeros from it.
2. The High level meets the DOD 5220 - 22 M standard. If you choose this level, your iPhone data will be erased and overwritten by three times. You can get a better insurance.

After the data erasing, your iPhone returns to be a new one now. No one can recover data from your iPhone, regardless of using any data recovery software.

Now, download this program to have a try!

   

Tips: iPhone SMS Eraser as a powerful software for iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s or iPhone 4 users to wipe all iPhone data, including contacts, music, pictures, messages, songs, etc. What’s the most important, those data can’t be recovered again once they are deleted by iPhone Data Eraser program, you cannot even recover them with any iPhone Data Recovery software in the market.

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