In this lesson, we're going to talk about how to put the iPhone and iPad into recovery mode, as well
as to a forced restart if your device is not behaving correctly.
So I'm going to start with the iPhone 10 and iPhone eight.
These are the most recent iPhones as of the time of this recording, and these are the first ones where
they have changed it up.
Again, there's actually three different model iPhones and one iPad model that all end up doing this
slightly differently.
So I'm going to just highlight these in order from most current, all these current.
So first, going with the iPhone eight, iPhone ten, ten minutes max because there is no home button
due to face ID.
The way this works is you have to first press volume up and then hold volume down and the side button
at the same time and keep holding those in until the device restarts.
If you're trying to just force restart the device, it will you'll see after you do that that the Apple
logo comes up and then you can release and allow the device to boot up.
Normally, if you're trying to put the device in a recovery mode, keep holding down those two buttons
until you get through the Apple logo and see the recovery mode screen.
With the iPhone seven and that model, that generation model, you simply hold down the side button
and the bottom volume or the volume down button at the same time, and you keep holding those down again
until the device power's off and then power's back on with the Apple logo.
And just like the other devices, if you keep holding the buttons in past the Apple logo, it will eventually
switch to the recovery mode screen.
For the iPhone six and earlier versions, you hold down the side button or some some very old iPhones
like the iPhone four or the iPhone five, the button is actually on the top.
But it's basically the sleep wake button.
You hold that in and you hold the home button at the same time and you do this for 30 seconds or so.
It will reboot.
You'll start seeing the Apple logo.
And like the other devices, if you release at that point, it'll boot up.
Normally, if you keep holding the buttons in past the Apple logo, you'll go into the recovery mode.
And on the iPad, very similar to the more of the older iPhone models, you hold down the sleep wake
button and the home button again for about 30 seconds to force it into the reboot, keep holding the
buttons down through the Apple logo to force it into recovery mode.
Now, once you've really moved it into recovery mode, you'll be presented with something that looks
similar to this.
Depending on the model device you have, it will ask you to basically connect it to your computer and
launch iTunes, which is what you'll need to do to work in recovery mode.
Once you've placed your iPad or your iPhone into recovery mode and plug it in via a lightning cable
into your computer, you'll get presented with something like this.
Now, iTunes already opened automatically for me.
In your case, you may have settings that have not opened iTunes automatically, but if it doesn't,
go ahead and open iTunes and you'll see a message like this that basically says that your device needs
to be updated or restored because it's basically in recovery mode right now.
So choosing update will install the latest version of iOS, which in that case may end up resolving
your issue or restore will completely erase your device and install a fresh copy of iOS, the latest
version from Apple's server, and then take you through the process of restoring from a backup.
So I'm going to do here is I'm going to hit.
Cancel.
And that's going to allow me to just eject the device here, I slow the option or if I do hit cancel
to restore or update, I'm going to hit eject.