Cleaning up a device

So let’s say you just bought a new device and you’re giving me the old one. While you trust me to wipe the drive to protect your privacy, you still want to reset it before you give it to me. Here are some things to remember.

For a PC or Mac computer, you can reset the device. If you reset your iPad or iPhone, you need to disassociate it from your account FIRST, then reset it to factory. Same with a Kindle. If that seems confusing, it kind of is. Because of security, Apple devices are particularly associated with the owner. They allow find me options, data across devices, and cloud backups. All that means the device is tightly connected to your Apple sign-on, and therefore, a reset will wipe the data, but the device will still remember you. It’s sweet really. And annoying. I am sometimes given devices that are still connected to the prior owner and there isn’t anything I, or law enforcement, can do about it.

So, on an Apple device, you need to go into settings, and sign-out of your iCloud account, your Apple account, and turn of the Find My option. For a PC, you can go into Start, System, Troubleshoot, and reset the PC and save, or not save, the data, depending on what you are doing.
I have some links that will help, instead of my gibberish.

​For iPhone, iPad, iPod, look HERE.  
For Android or iPhone, look HERE. 
For a Mac, look at THIS. 
For a PC, see This.  or this