You can completely erase the phone without losing anything from the cloud by going to Settings, General, Reset, and choosing Erase Content and Settings. If you have Find My iPhone on, you’ll be prompted to type the password to turn it off. Then your phone will be wiped and you can give it to your mother.
The cloud doesn’t store everything on the phone. Even iCloud only stores your settings and camera role. The content on your phone, including all your apps, must already be available on your account; if you sync with iTunes, you have to have that library to put whatever content you got from outside of Apple back on your phone. I therefore recommend you connect your phone to iTunes one last time, if you are using iTunes at all, and transfer your purchases, and run an encrypted backup. In this way, you can easily restore your new phone, without needing iCloud, if need be. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
