What do I need to move off my iPhone when selling it?

lonestarfan

Can anyone point me in direction of help about what to take off my iPhone and where/how to save it. I'm having an iPhone 5 and am selling the iphone4. I can download my music again and retrieve my photos as I'll have transferred them to a pc so I'm not worried about that. Also i can get my apps again from my itunes account. What happens to my notes pages, my text messages, my whatsapp messages. My kik messenger messages. How do I save them?
I don't want to lose any of my notes or messages.
Do I then just go into settings and reset settings so its back to factory settings when I hand it over to the purchaser? Hope someone can help. TIA.

Forgot to say I've also posted on the techie forum just in case that's a more appropriate forum.

d123

Attach to iTunes and do a back up, once it's complete do a restore in itunes and when it completes choose to set up as a new phone and all your personal stuff will be gone.

When you get your new phone attach it to itunes and use the restore from back up to put all your personal stuff onto the new phone. Notes and texts are definitely backed up and restored, I'm not sure how it handles third party apps like whatsapp though as I don't use it, but would presume it backs it up as well.

NFH

Make sure you add a password to your backup which will encrypt it. Only encrypted backups store all your passwords, e.g. to wireless networks or anything else. Then restore the backup to your iPhone 5. Restore your iPhone 4 to factory settings after you are satisfied that the iPhone 5 is working correctly with your restored backup.

lonestarfan

Great thanks. That should be ok as I'm familiar with backing it up.