How to Permanently Erase iPhone Text Messages?

You may disdained to answer this question because simple deletion or restoring can erase the text messages easily. Yes, press the delete button or restore your iPhone to the factory default settings can delete text messages, as well as other files from your iPhone. However, the two options can only make data invisible, but not really erase them. Other people uses a data recovery tool can recover these deleted files with ease.

But it is really necessary to delete text messages permanently because you just want to sell it to others and switch to a new iPhone. And you will never know who will get your old iPhone and what he will do with your old iPhone. Then, how to erase the SMS messages from iPhone forever? Since simple deletion and restoring are not helpful, you have to turn to third-party software for help. Here in this article, we will show you how to permanently delete iPhone SMS by using iPubsoft iPhone SMS Eraser (for Windows 8/7) or iPubsoft iPhone SMS Eraser for Mac.

This is a trustworthy and effective tool to delete iPhone data permanently, such as text messages, contacts, videos, photos, account info, password, etc. After erase your iPhone data with this data erasing program, no one can recover any data from your iPhone even with a government facility. Therefore, do remember to backup the important data before you decide to perform the data erasing process.

Tips: iPubsoft iPad/iPhone/iPod to Computer Transfer can help you backup the iPhone data you want to preserve.

Download the free trial version of the iPubsoft SMS Eraser to have a try:

Quick Start to Delete SMS from iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5/4S/3GS Forever

Below is the step-by-step guide showing you how to deleted text messages permanently with this versatile program. We will use the screenshots captured from Windows platform but the operations are appropriate for both Windows and Mac versions. Just get the right version installed on your computer.

Step 1. Connect iPhone to Computer and Run Program
Install and launch iPubsoft SMS Eraser, and go ahead to connect your iPhone from which you want to delete text messages to your computer with Apple provided USB cord. Once the connection is successful, the program will detect your iPhone automatically.

Step 2: Select The Text Messages You Want to Erase
All files on your iPhone will display in categories. Simply click on the "Message" category if you only want to delete your iPhone text messages.
Note: The program provides you with three levels of data erasing. The first level will erase your iPhone data quickly to save your time. The second level will leave no traceability of data erasure and use random data to overwrite all existing and deleted data on your iPhone. The third level is the most secure option which will write over the data 3 times. You can directly use the default second level.

Step 3: Start to Delete Text Messages from Your iPhone
Finally, you can choose the option of erase all data and settings to delete all text messages, including SMS attachments from your iPhone 5S/5C/4S/3GS.

Done! You have successfully got your iPhone to a clean slate. Want to delete iPhone files permanently to protect your personal information from revealing? iPubsoft iPhone Data Eraser is your good assistant.