We know that there are many new changes on iPhone 7 compared with the former iPhone brands. Apple has replaced the physical Home button with a new pressure sensitive button on iPhone 7. This change makes the way to how to force reboot iPhone 7 a little different. In this post,we'll show you the detailed steps force restart iPhone 7/7 Plus.
Note: Force restart iPhone 7 will be able to fix many iOS problems, such as iPhone frozen, slow, crashing or Apple logo.
Steps to Hard Reset iPhone 7
1.Press and hold the Power/Lock button on the right side of iPhone.
2.Press the Volume Down button while still keep holding the power button.
3.Keep holding the 2 buttons until the screen turns black and then flashes Apple logo.
4.Wait for seconds, the device will boot up.
Well, that's the ways to force restart your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. It's pretty simple, just a little difference from the other iPhone brands.
How to get into DFU mode on iPhone 7
Step 1: Connect your iPhone 7 to your Mac or PC with USB cable.
Step 2: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Volume Down button simultaneously for 10 seconds.
Step 3: Release the Sleep/Wake button while continuing to hold the Volume Down button for 10 seconds. The iPhone 7’s screen will remain blank while in DFU mode.
Step 4: Start iTunes, and a message that “iTunes has detected an iPhone in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes.”
Summary for How to Force Restart iPhone:
- For iPhone 6/5/4:
Press and hold the power +HOME button until you see the Apple Logo again, so you can get rid of any problems caused by an unresponsive app. But if the problem persists, it means that your iPhone system has more serious problems and you need to adopt two other methods.
- For iPhone 7/8/x:
1. Press and release the volume up button on iPhone 8 / iPhone 8 Plus / iPhone X,
2. Press and release the volume down button,
3. Press and hold the power button and keep it for a while. Release it when the Apple logo appears.
The above are some ways to hard restart iphone which are often used to solve some iphone stuck to death problems.
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