Is there a way to stop my photos etc being recovered?

cHk4 · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:05

I'm about to send my phone off for insurance however I have photos which contain sensitive information for work on it and I know you can recover these as I've had to do that in the past. Is there a way I can make it so you can't recover any information from the phone?

Thanks

vanandjuanunited · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:12

Is it a work phone? Its their issue
If its a personal phone then it shouldn't be holding sensitive work info.

Craig321 · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:15

iPhone data is encrypted with AES-256. The key for this encryption is removed when you use the standard reset option in the settings, so the data is un-readable even if it still exists.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/08/25/how-to-safely-prepare-wipe-your-iphone-for-resale-trade-in/

cHk4 · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:15

vanandjuanunited said:
Is it a work phone? Its their issue
If its a personal phone then it shouldn't be holding sensitive work info.

Sadly it's a personal phone it's the one I have on me all the time and when I've needed to take pictures of stuff in our data center etc I've always had my personal phone.

Craig321 said:
iPhone data is encrypted with AES-256. The key for this encryption is removed when you use the standard reset option in the settings, so the data is un-readable even if it still exists.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/08/25/how-to-safely-prepare-wipe-your-iphone-for-resale-trade-in/

Thanks mate

Egon · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:17

vanandjuanunited said:
Is it a work phone? Its their issue
If its a personal phone then it shouldn't be holding sensitive work info.

You didn't answer the OPs question and your comment was completely irrelevant... what was your point exactly?

Sorry OP, not something I've ever needed to do, but you've raised awareness to something I hadn't considered before.

vanandjuanunited · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:20

To highlight perhaps that he shouldn't be using his personal phone to store work sensitive info. I dare say his employers Data Protection Policy probably prohibits it.

What did your post solve?

cHk4 · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:23

Egon said:
You didn't answer the OPs question and your comment was completely irrelevant... what was your point exactly?

Sorry OP, not something I've ever needed to do, but you've raised awareness to something I hadn't considered before.

Yea' reading the post by @Craig321 it seems the reason I was able to recover data before was because I deleted it rather than erase/wipe my phone but upon using the in built erase all settings it gets rid of the encryption keys to unlock so there is no way your data can be recovered.

@vanandjuanunited lesson learnt will use work phone in future.

Egon · 23 Feb 2016 at 12:42

vanandjuanunited said:
To highlight perhaps that he shouldn't be using his personal phone to store work sensitive info. I dare say his employers Data Protection Policy probably prohibits it.

What did your post solve?

Solve? I didn't set out to solve anything. I thanked the OP for bringing something to my attention.

I just thought your post was a bit condescending and didn't really help the OP with his request, whether intentional or not.

Anyway, pointless debate is pointless. Let's not.

KIA · 23 Feb 2016 at 18:22

cHk4 said:
Yea' reading the post by @Craig321 it seems the reason I was able to recover data before was because I deleted it rather than erase/wipe my phone but upon using the in built erase all settings it gets rid of the encryption keys to unlock so there is no way your data can be recovered.

Did you recover data from an iPhone without a keycode/passphrase?

Model of iPhone?
Version of iOS?

cHk4 · 23 Feb 2016 at 23:27

KIA said:
Did you recover data from an iPhone without a keycode/passphrase?

Model of iPhone?
Version of iOS?

Hi mate, it was the iPhone 4 but I hadn't done a wipe or anything I might have not been clear or mistyped what I mean... basically I was able to recover photos and texts that were over a year old but the phone hadn't been wiped and I did have the codes.