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title: "How much time does it take to erase an iOS device?"
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<span style="color: #000000">The erasure time depends on the size of erased storage, the used erasure method and if several devices are erased at the same time using the same USB bus.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">The used erasure method has the following impact:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">The "iOS smart reset" takes less than 1 minute if no user data is found on the device.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">The erasure standard "Apple iOS erasure" erases the device using Cryptographic Erase. This takes 5-15 minutes.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">The other erasure standards erase the device first with Cryptographic Erase and then overwrite the encrypted storage using the selected erasure standard. This takes 10-120 minutes.</span>