How to make economic IT iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in recovery mode

Life Hacker [Japanese version] Reprinted from the article published on January 16, 2022

If you want to use the iPhone recovery mode, you may have a major problem with your iPhone.

However, how to make an iPhone in recovery mode is particularly difficult to understand because the method is different depending on the device.

This time, I will teach you how to recover mode with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch of all models.

Forced restart and recovery mode of iPhone

If you can, you don't want to restart your iPhone so often, and I don't think you'll have a recovery mode.

However, it is important to know how to do it in the event of a problem.

If your device is no longer reacting or you can't shut down in the usual way, you can forcibly restart instead of running out of the battery.

Forcibly restarting is basically the same as pulling out the power of the desktop computer, forcing the iPhone to restart and restarts.

The recovery mode is one step further, connecting the iPhone to the operating PC (or using a MacOS Catalina Finder) to reinstall the iPhone.

If the iPhone does not launch, crashed during startup, or hardened for a long time with the Apple logo, it is necessary to use recovery mode for that rescue.

Keep in mind that if you reinstall iOS, all your iPhone data will disappear.

I don't think anyone who regularly backs up iPhone using iCloud or PC iTunes and Finder is a problem, but unfortunately in recovery mode can only restore firmware, so you can't back up your device.。

Therefore, if the iPhone is solidified and cannot be started and there is no backup to restore, there is no way to save the iPhone data.

How to make it recovery mode with iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone 11 and later models

All iPhone 8 and subsequent models, including all iPhones equipped with Face ID, are the same steps for forced restarting and recovery mode.

The following procedures can be used with iPhone 8/8 Plus, iPhone X, XS, XR, iPhone 11 series, 2nd generation iPhone SE, iPhone 12 series, and iPhone 13.

The operation that combines this button must be done quite quickly.If it doesn't work at once, try it for the second time.

How to force restart with iPhone 8 and subsequent models

(1) Press the volume up button to release it.

(2) Press the volume down button immediately to release it.

(3) Press the side button until the Apple logo is displayed, and release the side button when the logo is displayed.

How to make it recovery mode with iPhone 8 and subsequent models

(1) Connect the iPhone to the computer.(In the case of a Mac where MacOS is running Windows PC or MACOS before Mojave, start iTunes. For Mac where MacOS is running Catalina, open Finder. If it is already running, once it is running.It may be necessary to end and open it again)

(2) Press the volume up button to release it.

(3) Press the volume down button immediately to release it.

(4) Continue pressing the side button, and do not release the side button even if the Apple logo is displayed.

(5) Press the side button until the recovery mode screen is displayed.

How to make recovery mode with iPhone 7/7 Plus and iPod touch

The iPhone 7/7 Plus is the first iPhone where the physical home button is gone, and the home button cannot be used to turn off the iPhone.For the first time since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, Apple had to change the shortcut in recovery and recovery mode.

This forced restart procedure can be used in the 7th generation iPod touch released in 2019.The latest iPod touch currently available.

How to force restart with iPhone 7/7 Plus

(1) Press and hold the side button (iPod touch is the top button) and press the volume down button at the same time.

(2) Press the button until the Apple logo is displayed, and release it when it is displayed.

How to make recovery mode with iPhone 7/7 Plus

(1) Connect the iPhone to the computer.(In the case of a Mac where MacOS is running Windows PC or MACOS before Mojave, start iTunes. For Mac where MacOS is running Catalina, open Finder. If it is already running, once it is running.It may be necessary to end and open it again)

(2) Press and hold the side button (iPod touch is the top button) and press the volume down button at the same time.

(3) Press the button and remain the button even if the Apple logo is displayed.

(4) When the recovery mode screen is displayed, release the button and proceed according to the displayed procedure.

How to make it recovery mode with an iPhone 6s and an earlier model

The iPhone 6s released in 2015 is the last iPhone with a physical home button.The following steps are valid not only for iPhone 6s but also on all iPhones released before that.Includes Plus models, 1st generation iPhone SE, 6th generation and earlier iPod touch.

How to force restart with iPhone 6s and earlier models

(1) Press and hold both the home button and the side (or top) button.(In the model after iPhone 6, the side button is on the right side. The iPhone 5s and the previous model have the top button at the top of the device).

(2) When Apple is displayed, release the button.

How to make it recovery mode with an iPhone 6s and an earlier model

(1) Connect the iPhone to the computer.(In the case of a Mac where MacOS is running Windows PC or MACOS before Mojave, start iTunes. For Mac where MacOS is running Catalina, open Finder. If it is already running, once it is running.It may be necessary to end and open it again)

(2) Press both the home button and the side (or top) button as above.

(3) Press the button and remain the button even if the Apple logo is displayed.

(4) When the recovery mode screen is displayed, release the button.

How to force a forced restart on the iPad and recover the recovery mode

The procedure for forced restarting and recovery mode on the iPad is easy.

If you want to do it with an iPad with a home button, follow the same procedure as the iPhone 6s described above and the previous model.

It is necessary to press and hold both the home button and the top button at the same time.If you want to forcibly restart, release the button when the Apple logo is displayed.

For iPads with Face ID functions, use the same procedure as the iPhone 8 and subsequent models to be forced to restart and recover mode.Press quickly and release in order of volume up, volume down, top button.

Remember that the power button on the iPad is at the top, not the side.

How to restore iPhone using recovery mode

According to the procedure described so far, if your device is recovered, it takes about 15 minutes to start reinstalling iOS and iPados and automatically ends recovery mode.

If you want to return to recovery mode, you need to repeat the button with the same combination.As soon as you enter the recovery mode, a restoration prompt may be displayed.If it is not displayed, click the device (the side bar on the left of the Finder, or the device icon on the left side of iTunes) to display the restoration prompt.

When the following error message is displayed, first press the "Update" button to update without erasing anything from the device.

If this doesn't work, you will need to reinstall iOS and iPados and delete everything from your iPhone or iPad.

When the restoration is over and the iPhone starts again, you have to set everything again, as if you bought a new iPhone.

You need to log in to the Apple ID and unlock Apple's activation.

This is a security feature that will prevent someone from using your device if you reset your device without signing out from iCloud.

This is why you shouldn't buy a used iPhone from a seller who does not unlock the iPhone in front of you.

If you reset the iPhone with the activation lock enabled, you will be asked the owner's Apple ID when you start the setup, so the iPhone you bought used (if the Apple ID is different from yourself) will be useless.From.

Easy to recover mode of iPhone

Up to this point, we have seen the combination of forced restart and recovery mode in each iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch model.

Once you remember it is a simple procedure, but the combination of the buttons is gradually complicated and may be a bit difficult to remember.

If you can, I hope that this method is hardly necessary to use it.

If a more serious problem occurs on the iPhone, the next one must be solved in DFU mode.

Source: Apple