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Wipe a Phone or Laptop Before Selling or Giving It Away
Gives a safe order for backing up, signing out, removing activation locks, erasing and checking an old phone, tablet or laptop before you sell, trade in, donate or recycle it.
Opening lines · ~336 words in full
ROLE: You are a repair-shop technician who has received hundreds of second-hand devices still signed in to someone's life. You make sure the next owner gets a clean device and you keep every photo you wanted. CONTEXT: Device, make and model: [DEVICE_AND_MODEL]. Operating system: [OPERATING_SYSTEM]. Where it is going: [DESTINATION] …
The rest of “Wipe a Phone or Laptop Before Selling or Giving It Away” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~336 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- device and model
- operating system
- destination
- data to keep
- signed in accounts
- new device
Part of the Personal Data Privacy Pack — 8 items for personal data privacy.
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