Your content won't be deleted from iCloud when you erase your device.
It will also turn off iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, Game Center, and other services. Your content won't be deleted from iCloud when you erase your device.
If you are going to restore your iPhone to factory settings, all personal settings, including photos, videos, messages, documents will be erased from the internal storage of the iPhone, and change settings to the very beginning just like a brand new iPhone. Thus all your photos will be removed from the iPhone.
No, factory reset will not delete anything from iCloud, whether it's iCloud backup or the files that synced from iPhone. The files in iCloud is stored online but not on your iPhone. The reset operation on iPhone will not affect files in Cloud. Similarly, the iTunes backup stored on the computer will not be affected.
When you tap Erase All Content and Settings, it will erase your device completely, including any credit or debit cards you've added for Apple Pay and any photos, contacts, music or apps. It will also turn off iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, Game Center and other services.
When you delete data, it no longer appears in apps on iPhone, but it isn't erased from iPhone storage. To permanently remove all of your content and settings from your iPhone, erase (wipe) your iPhone.
Factory reset or hard reset deletes complete data and settings from your iPhone. All your photos, videos, contacts, call logs, passwords, messages, browsing history, calendar, chat history, notes, installed apps, etc., get deleted from the iOS device. It cleans your iPhone as new with no personal information at all.
Resetting your iPhone will completely remove your settings and your personal info, like contacts, photos, etc. So, before you do a factory reset, try restarting your iPhone. This may help address minor software issues. If you decide to do a factory reset, you should back up your iPhone first.
Delete folders or files in iCloud Drive. You can manage and delete folders or files you store in iCloud Drive from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC.
When you erase a device remotely using Find My, Activation Lock remains on to protect it. Your Apple ID and password are required to reactivate it. If you erase a device that had iOS 15, iPadOS 15, or later installed, you can use Find My to locate or play a sound on the device.
Choose an option: WARNING: If you choose the Erase All Content and Settings option, all of your content is removed. See Erase iPhone. Reset All Settings: All settings—including network settings, the keyboard dictionary, location settings, privacy settings, and Apple Pay cards—are removed or reset to their defaults.
These two iPhone resetting options do different things. Reset All Settings will remove things such as Wi-Fi passwords and settings you have set on the iPad for Apps, mail, and many more, but it will not remove your data and media. Erasing All Content restored the device to its original state.
Reset All Settings and Erase All Content and Settings do different things. Reset all Settings removes things like your Wifi password and settings you've set on your iPad for Apps, mail, etc. Erase All Content and Settings restores a device to it's out of the box state when it was first turned on.
Most commonly, people reset their iPhone because they are experiencing major software errors, like issues connecting to networks or apps crashing. Resetting the phone to its factory settings should resolve these errors and restore normal functioning. It's also smart to reset your iPhone before selling it.
The erasure standard "Apple iOS erasure" erases the device using Cryptographic Erase. This takes 5-15 minutes. The other erasure standards erase the device first with Cryptographic Erase and then overwrite the encrypted storage using the selected erasure standard. This takes 10-120 minutes.
A factory restore erases the information and settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod and installs the latest version of iOS, iPadOS, or iPod software.
When you Erase All Content and Settings, it completely resets your device. All information including apps, photos, videos, contacts, messages, calendar, or music etc. are lost. In order to restore your iPhone after factory reset, first take the backup of data in iCloud or iTunes.
As long as you follow the steps provided by Apple to erase your iOS device, it will erase all data on the device.
If you are using the same Apple ID on the new iPhone, you might have a worry like this: if I erase all content and settings on my old iPhone will it erase on my new iPhone? Don't worry, resetting old iPhone will not affect the new one. It will only erase content on old iPhone where the operation is done.
From the Devices section of your Apple ID account page, you can find all of the devices that you're currently signed in to with your Apple ID, including Android devices, consoles, and smart TVs: Sign in to appleid.apple.com,* then select Devices.
You can reset iPhone without Apple ID by using the Recovery Mode. Press the 'Home' button and 'Wake/Sleep' button until the 'Recovery' screen appears.
Erase device: Permanently deletes all data on your device, but may not delete SD cards. After you erase, Find My Device won't work on the device.
Your device may still have a local copy of the photos: If you have iCloud Photos turned on and "Optimize iPhone Storage" selected in your settings, your iPhone may still have a local copy of the photos even after they have been deleted from iCloud.