

Log in to your My Avast account from a PC to wipe your phone. Turn on the thorough wipe feature within the app.Ĥ. This gives you remote access to your phone through your PC.ģ. Configure Avast Anti-Theft to work with your My Avast account. The app is free from the Google Play Store.Ģ. Install Avast Anti-Theft on your Android device. All you do is follow these steps to delete personal data from your smartphone before you sell it or give it away.ġ. You can permanently delete data with Avast Anti-TheftĪvast’s free app for Android, Avast Anti-Theft, actually deletes and overwrites all of your personal files. I used free software to recover deleted photos that I thought were missing forever because they had not been overwritten yet. With regular use of the device, eventually new data would overwrite the old data but since the person was selling the phone, that never happened and the files were still intact. But in reality, the file still existed and remained on the drive. The operating system deleted the corresponding pointers in the file table and marked the space occupied by the file as free. The problem is that people thought they deleted files but the standard features that came with their operating system did not do the job completely.
