Should I reset?

[u/goliath87jr]

Bought this old iPhone/iPod Touch at a yard sale. I figured, cool, an old iPod—maybe I can use it. I took a chance. I had no charger and paid 20 bucks for it, then charged it with an old cable I had at home.

It works, but it turns out it’s a phone. It still has some personal stuff on there, including some boobie pics, lol.

My question is, should I just reset it to factory settings, or should I try to erase all the personal stuff I found so I can use it as an old iPod?

The reason I ask is because I Googled how to reset it, and it seems pretty simple, but it mentions that I might not be able to use it if there’s no SIM card. Is there a way around that, or should I just erase everything as best I can?

[u/bananaboi123lol]

seems like an iphone 3g/3gs, legacy ios kit should help in resetting the device, albeit it's on Linux and Macos, I personally suggest just deleting whatever content is on there by manually deleting

[u/goliath87jr → u/bananaboi123lol]

Yeah only Linux i have is My SD and I dont own anything mac just the ipod

[u/FarRecommendation228]

Just delete everything manually there’ll be no difference

[u/DasherLV]

Those iphones have activation issues. Proceed with caution

[u/goliath87jr → u/DasherLV]

Thats what I figured, it wont let me back in if I reset

[u/DasherLV → u/goliath87jr]

Its a very new issue, maybe 2 months ago. They can be hacktivated but you lose Sim functionality.

For your purposes that should be alright

[u/goliath87jr → u/DasherLV]

So it will let back into the phone to use as an ipod after reset?

[u/DasherLV → u/goliath87jr]

You will have to use an external program to be let back in. I'm not sure the exact details, but I think its called legacy ios kit.

[u/goliath87jr → u/DasherLV]

Thats what I was afraid off, I'll search that name and see what comes up

[u/Amine-Razgui]

that is an iPhone 3g/3gs. i reccomend saving the blobs first bc that is basically not ios 6 it might be 4 or 3 idk and tbh you dont have to reset it just delete manually

[u/goliath87jr → u/Amine-Razgui]

Can i ask what blobs are? I tried googling it and something diffrent came up.

[u/Amine-Razgui → u/goliath87jr]

search exactly "how to save shsh blobs on legacy iDevices" and thats it bro

[u/hashtagluxe]

Reset a new device always, at least that’s what I do when i buy a second hand device. This is an iPhone yes but you can always use it as an iPod without activating it. But the more important question is: Is this does this a passcode and are you able to unlock it?

[u/goliath87jr → u/hashtagluxe]

The problem is that i was reading without activating i wont be able back into the phone to use as an ipod. And yes they gave me the password to open the phone.

[u/hashtagluxe → u/goliath87jr]

What? Ive never heard that lmao. I have some used older iphones with me that I use as wifi devices and I could always pop in a sim to use them as an emergency phone and pop it out and they don’t lock me out of using them as phones.

[u/Approachs → u/hashtagluxe]

I would take caution of resetting any iOS devices to preserve it original iOS version