6 things you should always do before factory resetting a phone

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I thought that I had my phone factory reset process down to an art, thanks to the frequency with which I reset and send back review devices. But recently I had to reset an older device — and just before I was about to start the process, I decided to go back and check if it had missed anything important. That’s when I realized it had a few things I actually hadn’t backed up.

After all, the data on a temporary or secondary device is generally less important than the data on one that you used as a daily driver. In my case, I was also selling the device, so I didn’t have the option to simply leave it as-is in case I needed to recover something later.




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