The initial forensic analysis of the contents of May's phone yielded several items of
evidentiary value. An examination of the user dictionary- revealed it contained the terms
"joebidennnn" and the same email address that was used to register the Kik account for
usemame 'Joebidennnn69" on March 30,2024. HSI's forensic analysis also revealed that May's
phone contained evidence that the Kik application had been deleted from the device. May's
phone also contained a Telegram application and a Mega application at one point that were
subsequently deleted. Notably. Kik. Telegram, and Mega (as well as another application, ..Loki
Messenger")i were all deleted on April 4,2024,within seconds of each other.

I just learned that the only way to remove an app from my phone is to do a full factory reset 🙄

What model of iPhone or Android was it? Not all OS's are created equal.

... duh? I thought cyberix had tech guys on it who'd figure this would be the case...
File deletion just deallocates the file blocks, the actual data remains and can be recovered. It's possible to recover data that's been overwritten multiple times as well. When deleting sensitive data, use a tool like GNU shred to fill blocks with random data in multiple passes, and optionally do a zero pass at the end.
Not uncommon knowledge, but I felt obliged to bring something to this thread...