Checking for personal data after factory reset on iPhone SE

Restored iPhone SE to factory setup using iTunes after screen froze. Want to return it but when I look at what is in storage I see 10.57GB in ‘Other’ its iOS 18 so that sounds about right but there’s still 640 MB in ‘Documents and Data’.

How can I be sure none of my personal data remains on the phone?

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Posted on Oct 27, 2024 8:27 PM

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Oct 27, 2024 8:57 PM in response to rc_21

As long as you’ve signed out of iCloud, turned off Find My, and factory reset it, you should be good to go, that “documents and data” isn’t related to your data, probably system or app related stuff, as long as you’ve done the prior.

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