If your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus is frozen or unresponsive, you may need to force restart or hard reset. This is a button combination that forces your device to restart.
It’s helpful to force restart your iPhone when an app freezes or becomes unresponsive to your taps or pressing the home button. This process won’t erase your iPhone, and the only data you might lose is the last few changes you made to an app before the iPhone froze.
If you’ve upgraded to an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus from another platform, or haven’t had to force restart your iPhone in a while, you may have forgotten how to do it.
Here’s how to force restart or hard reset a frozen iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus.
Hard Reset iPhone 8
You don’t need to tap the home button to force restart iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus. The home button is not a physical button, so it may become unresponsive.
To force restart your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, you need to use a simple button combination. Here’s how to do this:
- Press and release Volume Up.
- Press and release Volume Down.
- Press and hold the Power Button for about 5-10 seconds.
After a few seconds the phone will reboot and you will see the Apple logo on the screen. Your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus should restart and you will need to enter your passcode, if any.
How to fix a frozen iPhone 8 in 10 seconds?
If your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus is crashing regularly, you may need to update your apps through the App Store, update your iOS software, or explore other possible solutions.
We recommend resetting all your iPhone’s settings in the Settings app. This will cause your device to forget known Wi-Fi passwords so make sure you have them on hand before following these steps. Here’s how to reset your iPhone 8’s settings:
If resetting your iPhone’s settings doesn’t fix the problem, Talk to Apple customer service and see if they have a permanent solution for you.
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