Battery replacement privacy issue

If you are concerned about privacy, then follow the advice provided by y_p_w, and back up your device to iCloud or iTunes (Back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iCloud or iTunes - Apple Support), then you would erase it (Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content & Settings).

Once you got it back, you would restore it to the backup you made: Restore from an iCloud or iTunes backup - Apple Support

Best of luck,

GB

Hi

When you take/ send iPhone for repair you have to backup to iCloud Over your wifi

Then go to settings turn off find my iPhone Then restore iPhone back to factory settings.

None of your data is left on the iPhone.

Cheers

Brian 🇬-1F1E7;

You're free to back up your iOS setup to iTunes, restore it to factory settings, and hand you phone to them. Then restore that when you get it back. All they really need is your serial number.

You really think they have enough time to go snooping through your stuff? They're busy enough as it is trying to replace millions of batteries under the promotion.

y_p_w wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

y_p_w wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

And run your front tire over it in case Apple knows how to scrub the memory for deleted data.

They'll just send it to someone to hack into it because they really, really are desperate to see what you've got on your phone. That and the backdoor that Apple must be using to snoop on people without their knowledge. Maybe even snooping on your iCloud backups.

You've got point. Perhaps he should also run the phone through a meat grinder?

I totally understand that people have legitimate privacy issues. However, Apple has clear rules that they don't snoop on customers to see what they're doing. I mean - they wouldn't even help with the FBI when asked several times to unlock devices belonging to criminal suspects with subpoenas. I'd hope that Apple has proven that they can be trusted with a customer's privacy.

Personally I think it makes sense to have a current backup, and there isn’t a huge step from there to wiping the phone. Also, I personally do plan on pulling my sim, and putting it in my iPhone5 so I’ll have a phone. There is a slim chance that something will happen that would prevent me from getting my old phone back. It may be lost. It may be damaged during repair. Who knows? For that 1 in 1000 chance alone, I would feel better knowing the phone I never see again was wiped and that I don’t need to go buy a new sim.

Be sure to pull your SIM card too if you don’t want them receiving texts or calls while working on the phone.

Philly_Phan wrote:

And run your front tire over it in case Apple knows how to scrub the memory for deleted data.

They'll just send it to someone to hack into it because they really, really are desperate to see what you've got on your phone. That and the backdoor that Apple must be using to snoop on people without their knowledge. Maybe even snooping on your iCloud backups.

y_p_w wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

And run your front tire over it in case Apple knows how to scrub the memory for deleted data.

They'll just send it to someone to hack into it because they really, really are desperate to see what you've got on your phone. That and the backdoor that Apple must be using to snoop on people without their knowledge. Maybe even snooping on your iCloud backups.

You've got point. Perhaps he should also run the phone through a meat grinder?

My data is password-protected beyond the simple iPhone passcode. Isn't yours?

My user data is all in PW-protected apps.

What’s your point?

And run your front tire over it in case Apple knows how to scrub the memory for deleted data.

Philly_Phan wrote:

y_p_w wrote:

Philly_Phan wrote:

And run your front tire over it in case Apple knows how to scrub the memory for deleted data.

They'll just send it to someone to hack into it because they really, really are desperate to see what you've got on your phone. That and the backdoor that Apple must be using to snoop on people without their knowledge. Maybe even snooping on your iCloud backups.

You've got point. Perhaps he should also run the phone through a meat grinder?

I totally understand that people have legitimate privacy issues. However, Apple has clear rules that they don't snoop on customers to see what they're doing. I mean - they wouldn't even help with the FBI when asked several times to unlock devices belonging to criminal suspects with subpoenas. I'd hope that Apple has proven that they can be trusted with a customer's privacy.