Hey guys
Looking for a little advice. Prob like most of you, I have a small mountain of electronic devices which have piled up over the years, being a collection of mine, my 2 kids and my wife.
Now of course I would love to recycle them to be eco friendly etc but it would literally take me days and days to go through each device, power it up, format it etc (I have a LOT of devices, iMacs, macbooks, MacBook Pro, iPhones, ipads, PC desktop and laptops)
Also some of my stuff like an iMac from 20 years ago, I don’t even have power cable, mouse for it and don’t know how to log into my Apple ID for that particular machine.
So does anyone have any ideas or advice please? Maybe you’re in the same position as me, or have experienced this. I would love to recycle but don’t trust giving all my stuff to a company not having wiped the data.
Is there any easier options? I mean if I have to power up ALL my devices, then log in, then format it, seriously I dont have that time, I was thinking about maybe looking for a place similar to a scrap yard where the machines could all be crushed lol, but extreme but if no other options….
I asked in Apple store about my devices but again they said they could do it, but would have to format drives first. Surely isn’t there a machine they could use, which just zaps the hard drive rendering it useless? They must have situations where they have people bring in old iphones and have forgotten sign in details etc so how do they wipe the device then?
Sorry for long post but any ideas would be great! Thank you
Looking for a little advice. Prob like most of you, I have a small mountain of electronic devices which have piled up over the years, being a collection of mine, my 2 kids and my wife.
Now of course I would love to recycle them to be eco friendly etc but it would literally take me days and days to go through each device, power it up, format it etc (I have a LOT of devices, iMacs, macbooks, MacBook Pro, iPhones, ipads, PC desktop and laptops)
Also some of my stuff like an iMac from 20 years ago, I don’t even have power cable, mouse for it and don’t know how to log into my Apple ID for that particular machine.
So does anyone have any ideas or advice please? Maybe you’re in the same position as me, or have experienced this. I would love to recycle but don’t trust giving all my stuff to a company not having wiped the data.
Is there any easier options? I mean if I have to power up ALL my devices, then log in, then format it, seriously I dont have that time, I was thinking about maybe looking for a place similar to a scrap yard where the machines could all be crushed lol, but extreme but if no other options….
I asked in Apple store about my devices but again they said they could do it, but would have to format drives first. Surely isn’t there a machine they could use, which just zaps the hard drive rendering it useless? They must have situations where they have people bring in old iphones and have forgotten sign in details etc so how do they wipe the device then?
Sorry for long post but any ideas would be great! Thank you