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Ask Jerry: What data survives a factory reset?

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When you perform a factory reset on an Android phone, all user data is effectively wiped away. Not everything is gone, though, because a lot of what we see on our phones is tied to our Google accounts (or Apple ID if you're an iPhone user). (Image credit: Android Central)Google provides storage for a lot of your data in its cloud.

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