Data Erasure
When a regulator, an auditor, or a downstream buyer asks what happened to the data, the answer has to be more than “we wiped it.” Each completed erasure produces a signed certificate of erasure and a complete chain-of-custody record (which device, which operator, which station, which standard, verified result), stored in the cloud and exportable on demand.
And because the erasure engine is built on top of OEM technology, Phonecheck wipes device types other tools can’t — iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Chromebook, and Windows on one platform. Higher erase yield means more devices completed successfully, and more revenue per intake.
Last updated: October 20, 2026
The wipe runs in the background while the device is still being tested, completing in about four seconds — no minimum battery requirement, no waiting between stations.
Erasure that has passed ADISA’s Product Claims Test. Built to the NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883 sanitization standards. Erasure your security and compliance teams can sign off on.
Erasure runs on the same platform as the 80+ point diagnostic and certification, so every wiped device leaves the station with a Device History Report most major resale marketplaces recognize.
Erasure-only tools stop at destruction. Our platform scales from pure forensically certified data erasure for compliance-driven enterprises to complete consumer-grade certification that makes every device retail-ready. Most platforms handle one end of that range. Phonecheck covers all of it.
For resale operations, that means the same pass that sanitizes a device also certifies it. The wiped device leaves the floor with a Device History Report recognized by most major resale marketplaces — listable inventory, not just clean hardware.
Fast Erase runs the wipe in the background while diagnostics are still under way, completing in about four seconds with no minimum battery and no intake delays. Hot-swap support and automatic iOS activation keep operators moving from device to device instead of babysitting screens.
A single station processes 100 or more devices per hour, and the workflow adapts to your floor rather than the other way around — test suites, routing, and label printing are all customizable to how your operation actually runs.
Every erasure is logged as a timestamped, tamper-evident record: the device, the operator, the station, the standard applied, and the verified result. The signed certificate of erasure and full chain of custody live in the Phonecheck cloud, ready for a marketplace audit, an OEM or carrier program review, or a legal discovery request.
That documentation is what ITAD and enterprise compliance teams need to meet obligations under frameworks like GDPR and R2v3: proof of data destruction, produced automatically, for each completed wipe.
A certified data erasure is a wipe whose result is recorded, per device, in a signed certificate of erasure. Phonecheck produces that record for phones, tablets, Macs, Windows PCs and Chromebooks, to recognized sanitization standards (standards page).
No certificate is issued for a phone or tablet that is still iCloud-locked. If an eSIM-capable phone or tablet's eSIM was not wiped, no certificate issues for that device.
On Macs, the erasure report records the tester's name, so the record shows who ran the wipe as well as what ran.
iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Mac, Chromebook, and Windows, plus Apple Watch and Samsung watches, with a guided factory reset for AirPods. Phonecheck covers the full range of devices moving through a modern processing floor, under one platform and one audit standard.
That breadth is a yield story, not a spec sheet: the more device types you can wipe and certify in one place, the more devices you complete successfully — and the more revenue you recover per intake.
Our Enterprise Engineering team embeds directly with your operations, maps your workflows, and architects the platform around exactly how your business moves devices. You don’t adapt to us. We adapt to you.
That’s how buyback, refurbisher, and ITAD operations run Phonecheck at volumes from five thousand to hundreds of thousands of devices a month — backed by 24/7 support that answers in about two minutes when the floor needs it.
Phones, tablets, Macs, Windows PCs and Chromebooks. On Macs, MacCheck supports NIST Purge on Fusion Drives; on Windows, WinCheck can also erase external hard drives. Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch are erased too; see how to test and clear watches and AirPods for resale.
Yes. Phonecheck documents each completed wipe on a phone, tablet, Mac, Windows PC or Chromebook with a signed certificate of erasure. On phones and tablets, a certificate is issued only once the device is clear of iCloud lock and, on eSIM-capable devices, once the eSIM is wiped. Apple Watch and Galaxy Watch erasures get their own erase certificate. See what a certificate of data destruction should show.
Phonecheck's erasure is built to NIST 800-88 and IEEE 2883. For what the current revision asks of you, read what NIST 800-88 Rev. 2 changed.
Phonecheck has passed ADISA's Product Claims Test on five device types: smartphones, smartwatches, solid state drives (tested with MacDiagnostics & Erasure), embedded Chromebook and embedded Windows1. Each test covers a named software version on named devices1. See exactly what ADISA tested.
Yes. Phonecheck's post-erasure Data Verification is available on phones, Macs and Windows PCs, so an operator can confirm whether a device still holds recoverable data after processing.
Yes. Phonecheck's WinCheck clears the TPM chip during the erasure workflow, a feature added in WinCheck Diag 1.28.02.
Yes. Phonecheck's MacCheck processes Intel Macs with the T2 chip (2018 to 2020) through a documented one-time unlock, then runs the normal erase and test workflow.
The differences are mostly device coverage and ADISA scope. Phonecheck's ADISA register entry lists smartwatches, embedded Chromebook and embedded Windows as well as smartphones and solid state drives1. See how that compares with Blancco, NSYS, BitRaser and Piceasoft, with every fact linked to its source.
