Another way to reset the iPhone is to plug it into your computer and open iTunes and go to the App Store and... oh wait... never mind.
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iPhone 8: How to Hard Reset or Force Restart
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The switches in control center don’t turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. They disconnect connected devices but not all of them and only temporarily. To turn Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off, you have to do it from Settings.
I'm so confused. I thought pressing five times on the power button did that.
Or is that clicking the heels on your ruby slippers while chanting "There's no place like home"?
Oh wait, no, it's "You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all around, you do the hokey Pokey...". No that's not it either.
Damn you, Apple!
It used to be so simple!
"Remove battery. Put it back." ... Ah. Those Nokia Days!
Makes no sense to me either.
It does that on the iPhone 8 also. You can toggle it off.
Here is the settings screen from my iPhone 8.
Interestingly, with it off, pressing the side button five times still disables TouchID, but no SOS screen comes up.
Launch day of brand new state of the art iPhone 8 and we're already talking about DFU mode & hard resets. Pity.
You sir, are awesomeup down up down left right left right b a select start
wheres the problem?
On one hand, I can see your point, on the other, I remember a huge number of people ten years ago who were absolutely certain that virtual keyboards were the devil's tool and would never work, or be as quick as hardware keyboards, and were just a fad. Look how that turned out. Apple is tasked with finding button combinations for a few things (like SOS and hard restart) that are possible to do while being nearly impossible to do accidentally. There was nothing intuitive about "hold side button and home for 10 seconds" to power off, nor about using the same combination for a split second to get a screen shot. The new ways aren't worse, just different (and they had legit reasons for changing them). We'll adapt, and in a few months it won't be a big deal.
I still use that code all the time in my games!
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA FTW!
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Problem is...the sequence was wrong...?up down up down left right left right b a select start
wheres the problem?
The emergency/SOS activation....
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Migration to new OS and hardware. Start the adjustment now.
it takes a certain kind of Apple hater to be angry about even this. amazing.
I think I would get the hang of this better if the screen came up first saying “finish him”
“X” also means “error” in students assignments.
So I recon iPhone X is a wrong iPhone. Or not an iPhone. Whatever.
[doublepost=1506210349][/doublepost]Hmm? Why not just five rapid clicks?
What about removing all god damn buttons and then figure out a gesture on the god damn screen to activate god damn SOS feature? This is god damn insane!
Dude, that's the fatality move in Mortal Combat X
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What about OS X?“X” also means “error” in students assignments.
So I recon iPhone X is a wrong iPhone. Or not an iPhone. Whatever.
[doublepost=1506210349][/doublepost]Hmm? Why not just five rapid clicks?
What about removing all god damn buttons and then figure out a gesture on the god damn screen to activate god damn SOS feature? This is god damn insane!
I guess they want to keep it the new format going forward on new phones sold. So seeing that the 8 and X are new phones they updated for these. The 7 is old so they won’t change it for the millions of people who already own one.
Yeah, It's hard to imagine having to force reset my iPhone so often that changing the method would make me angry.
TimMAY says
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
But seriously though, I think this is going to go down as one of the worst Apple launches of all time for both the 8 and the X. But we'll see.
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out,
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey Pokey And you turn yourself around
That's what it's all about.
But seriously though, I think this is going to go down as one of the worst Apple launches of all time for both the 8 and the X. But we'll see.
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Ok, so they choose to use a method everyone was use to to now activate emergency sos? How many people will be trying to reset not knowing and then activate sos by mistake?