When you reset an iPhone, my understanding is that the device does not truly get reset to how it was when it exited the factory.
What about with an Android device? Does performing a factory reset on an Android device always reset the device to how it actually left the factory?
I decided to ask this question to help our community generate accurate answers to this other one.
It is the same as an iPhone I believe. A "factory reset" removes all information in the data and user partition, but leaves everything in the system and associated partitions as is. That means if you got an upgrade or update that changed anything in the system partition, it would remain after a "factory reset".
The reality is that a "factory reset" is kind of a misnomer in this case, it's more of a "user reset" than anything else if we were being more accurate.
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