I will be trading in my old iPad Pro for a newer one. I have everything backed up to iCloud. Is there anything else I should do before returning it to the mother ship like deleting apps etc.

I would like to return this as "clean" as possible.
Thanks!

Reset it to “factory default”, but even then I remain concerned that something personal stays behind.

This ^^^^^

I recently traded in my Iphone and did the same factory default process.
As many millions of devices that go through this and with the huge potential liability Apple could face if this was a problem, I'm sleeping reasonably well at night.

Factory reset will take care of you. The firms selling you additional data wipe tools will try to convince you otherwise.

After you wipe, just don't log back into your icloud account or compete other setup steps on the device or you're essentially starting the steps to bring it back to current state.

I would log out of my iCloud account, and turn off Find My iPad, then reset to factory default.

When you’re done, with a different device, make sure you remove your old ipad from your iCloud account.

All though I trust Apple I still have my last 3 iphones, but I keep them a really long time so I dont feel that bad not trading them back in for the credit.

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Originally posted by Muddflap:

I would log out of my iCloud account, and turn off Find My iPad, then reset to factory default.

These 3 things are key when getting rid of or selling an old Apple device and moving to a new one.

I'd also do one last good backup.

Backups - I should have added that in addition to iCloud I also do one to an actual computer. Haven't needed that, but just in case....

One other thing that I have been doing as SOP when moving to a new device is some housekeeping. I will go through and do an audit of the apps on there and delete ones then I don't want or use anymore then you aren't carrying them over to the new device.

I got my wife a new iPhone 14 recently and did this for her, this woman must have had like 879 apps on that phone and used maybe 20 of them.

If your old phone has a physical SIM, I'd pull it and destroy it (or transfer it to your new phone). You don't want some unknown party making calls on your account, or getting "SIM-jacked."

I keep my Apple products for a considerable time and when I upgrade I don't trade them in. I take a small sledge hammer to them and then the parts to the dump.

As others have said factory reset will take care of it. It will delete everything you ever had on the phone(contacts, pictures, apps, etc.) and return it to factory settings.