Key Highlights
- Each time I did that, I performed the same action on my old phone: Go to settings, find the factory reset option, and tap it.
- Simple, right?But in the past few years, I started noticing something a little different.
- It seemed like my old phone didn’t dissociate from my Google account entirely, and there were remnants of it in a few places.
- I recently started looking into these and realized something: There’s a crucial step I should always do before factory resetting any Android phone, and I’ve been skipping it for years. How do you factory reset your Android phone?0 votesI go to "Erase all data" and perform that. NaN%I remove my Google account then factory reset. NaN%I delete several things one by one, then factory reset. NaN%I've never factory reset an Android phone. NaN%The problem with a simple Android phone factory reset When you factory reset an Android phone — in this case, my Pixel 9a — the phone itself goes back to its blank state.
- However, your Google account doesn’t seem to realize this has happened.
