iPhone: Hard reset
Contributed by qmchenry 
Tagged: Apple iPhone It is inevitable that electronic devices will eventually freak out. If you iPhone ever does, and I’m not saying it will, you may not be able to get it to respond to normal inputs. A combination button press will let you reset the iPhone.
To reset the iPhone, press and hold both the sleep/wake button (on top of the iPhone) and the Home button (centered below the screen) for a few seconds. When you see the Apple logo, you can let go and the iPhone will start back up.
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satan said on October 13, 2008
Doesnt work
Zacatecas said on November 29, 2008
Thanks a lot, my five years old daughter make the screen black and with this reset now it’s working just fine.
Dee said on December 23, 2008
Thank you! 3 year old son made the screen black and no other reset would work! It’s fine now.
bob said on December 30, 2008
thank you!!!!
Leslie said on January 5, 2009
It did reset. The touch screen doesn’t work. Got ran over in parking lot! Any ideas?
Anonymous said on January 5, 2009
well, used to work for me-. am now in the troubling situation that the power button no longer works.
is there any other way around of getting the iPhone into:
- powering off
- recover mode enabling
brigitte said on February 14, 2009
I get a white usb cord pointing to an itunes logo; when I plug in the iphone, the itunes wants to do a hard reset of my phone but gets an error at the end, then nothing!
taylor said on March 1, 2009
let the phone completly die then re re plug back into itunes with data cable, i found this worked for my white screen of death
marcus said on July 2, 2009
i recently updated my iphone with the 3.0 software and i tryed then to reset my iphone and settings now it doest turn on it cums up with the apple logo and a loading curcle nothing else happens i have left it on for like 2day nearly still hasnt tarted up?
Anonymous said on September 29, 2009
Can anyone help me with reseting my iphone. I tried the hardboot and it didn’t work
Anonymous said on September 29, 2009
I have the same problem how did u get it to start working again
Anonymous said on October 4, 2009
I hard reset my iphone and it shows the apple in the screen and some white lines in a circle but it’s not staying on, what do i do now? I even took out my sim card
m0gu3 said on February 19, 2010
Thanks .. that was, what I am searching for and helped me :)
Anonymous said on April 7, 2010
it won’t power off at all, when i hold the power button at the top the slide to turn off never comes up, when i hold power and home together the screen goes black but never brings up apple logo…any help?
Anonymous said on April 28, 2010
i need to solution for the restart iphone when insert to sim ………
please
send me solutions
raj714@hotmail.com
peter van hagen said on June 21, 2010
I did what you recommended but…… my touch screen doesn’t respond at all. I am afraid this is the end of my iphone.
peter
Anonymous said on June 21, 2010
Make sure it is well charged before you try to reset. Often a phone that won’t reset has a dead battery.
wtho said on July 28, 2010
Did ya ever get you iphone to work again? if so, How’d ya get it to work again?
Gabbeplayin said on September 14, 2010
my home button is broken so when my screen freezes i cant slide to power off if i press the sleep/wake button and plus i cant hold the home and sleep/wake button to hard reset the phone since the home button is broken…any way or any cydia app that i can download to hard reset using only the sleep/wake button? as of now i just need to wait to the phone to die to work it again?
Adrm12 said on October 25, 2010
okay so my i phone sleep button wont work and my slider to unlock my phone is not working and i need to turn it off how can i turn if off if nun of my sleep and slider wont work accept for the home button?
Dentan said on November 15, 2010
Anyone encounter any cases whereby the hard reset just will not work on iPhone 4?
ALY$$A said on November 18, 2010
MY home button, does not work. Is there any troubleshooting i can do to fix it ?
Duke3X said on November 30, 2010
Why the fu** would you give a 3 year old your iphone? I mean i have a 3 year old, and i love her, and she knows how to use it perfectly, but come on. I bought her a $100 laptop so she can screw that up, but not my iphone lol. Just saying :)
Loril said on December 9, 2010
I have reset my i phone now it doesnt work and always pop up apple logo !
Usama said on December 19, 2010
i have my ipnone 2g restarted today i it freaks me out my phone iz not restoreing and it shows apple logo in it and after waiting for almost 12 hours it iz not working even not starting
usama said on December 19, 2010
please give any idea to restore it
Carolgassmann said on January 23, 2011
someone please help.. I pushed a button to create “voice commasnd” not voice control.. voice command and now all it does is peak in French. Ihich I love. now all the phone does is speak French and I have to double click every button and it will nto scroll down or enlarge or do just about anything.. someone please tell me how t disengage my voice command
Solo said on February 23, 2011
My iphone a black screen with the apple logo and it will nt turn back on or do anything for tht matter, wat should I do??
stan said on February 25, 2011
hi, i was messing around with my iphone 3gs and i changed the features to voice prompt..everything i do the phone speaks out. but NOW THE TOUCH & SCRAWLING HAS CHANGED AND I CANT GET BACK TO ITS ORIGINALITY OR TO FIND THE PLACE TO CHANGE IT BACK..
how cancel this feature.I HAVE A CRACK ON MY IPHONE AND IM AFRAID OF UPDATING ONLINE.
Stanley ( sdos777@yahoo.com)
David Kirk - Founder/Editor said on February 25, 2011
This work?
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> VoiceOver
David Kirk - Founder/Editor said on February 25, 2011
Typically that’s the sign of a dead iPhone. Try a full charge. Try to connect to your computer…
Rainyhayes13 said on April 8, 2011
Thank u! Thank u! Thank u!
Derotowa said on April 18, 2011
i have had my iphone 3 for almost 3years now and two days ago mit just switched off n wont come back on. i have tried pressein the two butoons suggested but no luck, right now its connected to my computer still no joy. pls help
Linda said on August 26, 2011
The hard reset worked like a charm (holding down on/off button while holding the wake button for several seconds). Hold until you see the apple, then let go. If you hold until the apple disappears that’s too long. I thought my phone was totally crashed and trashed until an Apple Tech gave me this info. Whew!!!