if they dont turn on their data is safe, an electronics recycling charity will strip them or sell them as "for parts". iphone 6 barely runs nowadays, 4s are incompatible with just about everything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave my teen my old iPhone 6. It can't update, no apps work, but it can call and text. It's the ideal first phone.

First day she has it she flashes a custom ROM to the phone and has a phone exponentially more advanced than your new one.

Kids know stuff.

Not to that extent, no. She has an iPad she uses at home to scramble her brain with chats and videos. The phone is emergencies-only while at school. It works perfectly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave my teen my old iPhone 6. It can't update, no apps work, but it can call and text. It's the ideal first phone.

First day she has it she flashes a custom ROM to the phone and has a phone exponentially more advanced than your new one.

Kids know stuff.

I don't know of any custom ROMs for iPhones. Android had cyanogen and now lineageos but support is limited to a few phones.

Would require more effort than it's worth. Jailbreaking them is most common method.

You can do a factory reset wipe and donate for calls by victims of domestic violence.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/cell-phone-donations-victims-domestic-violence

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I gave my teen my old iPhone 6. It can't update, no apps work, but it can call and text. It's the ideal first phone.

First day she has it she flashes a custom ROM to the phone and has a phone exponentially more advanced than your new one.

Kids know stuff.

I don't know of any custom ROMs for iPhones. Android had cyanogen and now lineageos but support is limited to a few phones.

Anonymous wrote:I gave my teen my old iPhone 6. It can't update, no apps work, but it can call and text. It's the ideal first phone.

First day she has it she flashes a custom ROM to the phone and has a phone exponentially more advanced than your new one.

Kids know stuff.

Support.apple.com has instructions on how to wipe all information from a used mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Always follow those instructions exactly before recycling or selling or gifting any Apple product.

I gave my teen my old iPhone 6. It can't update, no apps work, but it can call and text. It's the ideal first phone.

Anonymous wrote:Also, if somebody charges them and turns them on again, is any of my personal information still on the phone or does it have to be connected to an active phone number?

Everything is of course.
Doesn't need a sim/phone number. It's a computer.

You can use a data cable to charge them up and then retrieve any data on them to a laptop, etc.

You can recycle them at places like Staples or Best Buy. I don't know about the personal data, though. But honestly, phones that old are likely going to be stripped down, not reactivated.

Also, if somebody charges them and turns them on again, is any of my personal information still on the phone or does it have to be connected to an active phone number?

I was unpacking a box at the back of my closet and found a couple of old iPhones. Ones a 4 and one’s a 6, according to what Google tells me when I search the model numbers on the back of the phones.

Is there anything I can do with these besides throw them out?