The Effects of a Factory Reset on an iPhone 8 Plus

With the rapid evolution of the Apple iPhone and the high rate of cybercrime it seems impossible to keep up on the everchanging security features the iPhone provides and how safe user data is. Currently, the iPhone 8 Plus is at its peak, therefore, it is important to understand what happens with data on the device before and after a device factory reset. To analyze this data, the mobile forensic toolkits, Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer and MSAB XRY software are used. The aim of this study is to test two iPhone 8 Plus devices using the mentioned software to answer research questions determining what information can be viewed before and after a factory reset is performed and a comparison of results from the two toolkits being used.