What do I do if I already sent my iPad in without preparing it?
Here’s the remote wipe SharonMF mentioned. Go to icloud.com, you may have to sign in. Tap Find my iPhone. If you have more than one iPad chose the iPad you want to erase. Tap erase.
Here’s the remote wipe SharonMF mentioned. Go to icloud.com, you may have to sign in. Tap Find my iPhone. If you have more than one iPad chose the iPad you want to erase. Tap erase.
Key to a successful trade-in is properly preparing the device. If you have returned the iPad without proper preparation, it is essential that you remotely disable Find My for the device that you have returned to Apple's trade-in partner prior to its assessment.
Turn off Find My on your devices and items - Apple Support
What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
it's all encrypted, so people can't access and if they could it would require apple having some backdoor to get past the encryption to access your data, and then you could ask yourself one thing, do you view your data being so unique, special top secret that apple would risk it?
I'm sure you considered a remote wipe?
Traded iPad in And sent it without reset
