How to Force Restart or Hard Reset iPhone X

This is how you reset or force restart the iPhone X so you can go back to using it when the new iPhone freezes.

If you are unable to turn off your phone normally, you may need to do a hard reset. This doesn’t delete any data on your phone, it just forces the iPhone X to restart. The whole process should take less than a minute.

If you encounter this issue frequently, you may need to update your apps or check for other iPhone X issues that might be causing freezing or crashing. Here’s how to fix other iPhone X problems.

Apple has changed how you reset iPhone X from older iPhones, so you have to use a new key combination to do that. Here is what you need to do to fix your frozen iPhone X.

Hard Reset iPhone X

Instead of holding down two buttons until the iPhone restarts, you now have to quickly press two buttons and then hold down a third button. This takes some practice, but once you get used to it, it’s good to go in the future.

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You need to turn up the volume and then decrease the volume pretty quickly, but not all at once. The Side Button is what Apple calls the power button. After holding down the side button for a few seconds, the iPhone X should reboot itself.

If this is happening often then you should try resetting all settings from your iPhone’s Settings app. If the problems are really bad, you may need to chat with Apple support to find out if something is wrong with your iPhone X.