A factor reset for your Android smartphone is a strategic way to ensure your phone is cleared of any private information when selling or giving the phone away.
give us issues that a simple restart just can't fix. Other times, you may want to purchase a new phone and pass your old one to someone else.
Both these scenarios would call for you to do a factory reset on your phone, and this is much different than simply turning your phone off and turning it back on again. It essentially makes the phone start anew, as if you were just using it for the first time. Factory resets can fix many chronic performance issues as a last resort, such as freezing, but it does not remove the device's operating system.
Not only will it clutter the phone that the new owner doesn't need, but it could also give this person access to your personal and private information. And if you don't know the person who's gaining ownership of the phone, then there's really no telling what they could do with that information.
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