Is my phone safe when in for repair?

longwalks1

iPhone is going in for a new screen tomorrow, and I have a lot of personal stuff and details on there, stupid question but how do I make it so that the contents of it can't be accessed please?

Is it possible?

JJ_Egan

Wipe the lot .

londonTiger

humans are [STRIKE]nosey [/STRIKE] curious creatures, even the best of us are privvy to poking around in the photos section of a phone.

pappa_golf

if your real name is Paul Francis Gadd , do not take to pcworld for repair

Oakdene

Back it up, wipe it then restore when its fixed & back in your possession...

Head_The_Ball

britishboy wrote: »

iPhone is going in for a new screen tomorrow, and I have a lot of personal stuff and details on there, stupid question but how do I make it so that the contents of it can't be accessed please?

Is it possible?

Is it all on the SIM and/or storage card?

If yes, then remove them before it goes for repair.

If not, then can you transfer the details to a removable storage media?

pappa_golf

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

Is it all on the SIM and/or storage card?

If yes, then remove them before it goes for repair.

If not, then can you transfer the details to a removable storage media?

iPhone is going in for a new screen tomorrow

macman

pappa_golf wrote: »

if your real name is Paul Francis Gadd , do not take to pcworld for repair

I've never understood how that happened. Everyone else who goes to PCW for a repair gets their hard drive wiped, whatever the fault is:D

grumbler

If it is screen-locked, how can 'personal stuff' be accessed without unlocking it first?

I_have_spoken

Yes, wipe it. All the, ahem, 'good stuff' will be passed around and posted on Facebook etc.

Head_The_Ball

pappa_golf wrote: »

iPhone is going in for a new screen tomorrow

Not all of us are familiar with the finer details of iPhones as some of us are not suckered by clever marketing of heavily over priced products.