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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority
For the past 15 years, I’ve switched Android phones more than 50 times, easily. Each time I did that, I performed the same action on my old phone: Go to settings, find the factory reset option, and tap it. Simple, right?
But in the past few years, I started noticing something a little different. It seemed like my old phone didn’t dissociate from my Google account entirely, and there were remnants of it in a few places. I recently started looking into these and…
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