iPhone: Hard reset

Contributor Icon Contributed by qmchenry Date Icon June 30, 2007  
Tag Icon 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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  • Doesnt work
  • Thanks a lot, my five years old daughter make the screen black and with this reset now it's working just fine.
  • Dee
    Thank you! 3 year old son made the screen black and no other reset would work! It's fine now.
  • bob
    thank you!!!!
  • Leslie
    It did reset. The touch screen doesn't work. Got ran over in parking lot! Any ideas?
  • dschroed
    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
    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
    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
    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?
  • martinmartinez
    I have the same problem how did u get it to start working again
  • martinmartinez
    Can anyone help me with reseting my iphone. I tried the hardboot and it didn't work
  • MrsBennett
    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
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