In the age of smartphones, everyone changes their phone every two years. Today no new mobile has come in the market that the next day people start selling old mobiles. Sometimes companies also keep on lunching exchange offers and people keep on exchanging. In such a situation, many people change their mobile or sell it to someone else without understanding anything. This not only leaks their data, but sensitive information also becomes viral. In such a situation, if you are also going to sell or exchange your old phone, then you should also pay special attention to these things.

Logout social media account

Maybe, you don't but, there are thousands of people who delete social media applications from mobile and they think everything is fine. but it's not like that. With this, whenever another person downloads the social media application on that mobile, then your account can be open. In such a situation, first of all, log out from all social media accounts. Delete all those applications only after logout. This can prevent sensitive information from being leaked.

Logout from play store

To download any mobile application, first, you have to create an account in the play store. In such a situation, after logout from social media, it is also very important to log out from the play store. After deleting the account from the mobile application, you can also delete all the applications from the play store. This makes it understandable that which application has been downloaded from the Play Store.

Delete call setting

Now it's time to delete the call setting. Sometimes some numbers are associated with your Gmail account. In such a situation, when you delete numbers by going to call settings, then numbers are easily deleted. Apart from this, you can also delete protected numbers by going to Gmail. Before deleting the numbers, you must save all the numbers in one place or copy them on the laptop.

Factory reset

Lastly, there is a factory reset, and most importantly. Even after deleting everything, some things remain on the mobile, so by doing a factory reset, it gets deleted. That's why it is very important to do a factory reset before selling. This will delete all the data present in the phone and the software will come back to the initial state. For this, you have to go to Settings and click on Raise All Data, so that everything in the mobile will be erased. Attention, before adopting all this process make sure to do mobile recovery.

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