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iPhone 8: How to Hard Reset or Force Restart
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Had to reset a friend’s 7+ day after I installed 11 for him. I had to look up hard reset for the phone. I couldn’t remember the combo.
Ooh, a little late. I tried to do this yesterday night after I finished installing and updating everything on my new phone. I googled how to do it on the 7 and was looking at the TV when it made this unsettling siren. I almost notified the police...
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That's actually a neat little tidbit. Thank you.
EDIT: Not the case with mine..
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What's the different between restarting your phone and turning it off and back on?
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That's actually a neat little tidbit. Thank you.
EDIT: Not the case with mine..
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Contra with 30 lives....after doing dfu hard reset on ip8 plus at the apple store.
Don't think I've really come across a hard reset causing any real issues.
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Not on iPhone 7, for example. There was a reason that made sense for the process to change with iPhone 7 and the new home button, but in this case it doesn't really make that much sense that suddenly it's different for iPhone 8 when as far as buttons go and all that it seems that it's basically the same as iPhone 7.
Almost everyone I now calls it the „X“ instead of the „10“...
Even I keep catching myself reading it as „X“ when I see it in an article.
The 7 is available in their current lineup and is hardly “old”.
Go figure.
The 7 is last year phone. Like I said, old phones will stay the same and going forward new phone such as the 8 or X will have the new button procedure. It doesn’t make sense to go back and change it on older phones after millions of people already know it one way, which is why only new phones will get this treatment, new phone, new way of doing things. Like it or not, it is what it is.
The combination is fine. What I find puzzling is that they didn’t make it consistent across their product lines.
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I suppose that they could have retained the side button and volume button combo for hard resetting the phone and set the Emergency SOS feature to the new Volume Up, Volume Down, Side button combo. But then we would probably all complain that nobody is going to remember, be steady enough or have the time to "press and quickly release the Volume Up button, then press and quickly release the Volume Down button and finally press and hold the Side button and wait for the SOS screen to pop up" in the middle of an emergency.
Because without Jobs there is no consistency with anything. Its like whatever you all want as long as we make a lot of money.
That is how I discovered this... I was trying to do a hard reset and that SOS screen came up and I was surprised.
Ha. Wow.. I was only off 1 action?
1) Impressive recall of useless info, some 30-years later. #stillgotit #neverhadit
2) Talk about something I never thought to consider I would revisit 30 years later. #bizarro
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Maybe if you start calling it the VIII, that will help with the X?
No, you are not making sense and it isn’t worth trying to explain to you if you cannot understand the logic behind Apple decision to leave the reset function on older phones the same but to change it on newer phones going forward. It really is not that hard to understand.
I’m prettt sure you can still do this, even though they have eliminated the App Store. Everything else seems to work the same for me once I plug my phone into my Mac.
I restored my iPhone 8 from iTunes and the only difference I noticed was before the apps would all be copied over from my Mac to the phone, and now with the new iTunes it just setup with what looked like placeholders for the apps then the apps were all downloaded from the App Store.
I have yet to even view the app placeholder portion. I just use iTunes via Mac for backups and syncs. And have yet to notice a difference.
Nice, when you need it, you will have forgotten how it works and are ideally away from a computer outside.
Also, side button? What?
Apparently I can manually drag them over from iTunes, but that would mean a fresh app install and app data is gone, no?
What a horrible mess, local app backups that can easily be redeployed along their data was one of the key advantages over Android for me.
Well, at least this eases in a possible move to Android one day a lot better.
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Also, side button? What?
What about apps that are not on the App Store anymore at all?
Apparently I can manually drag them over from iTunes, but that would mean a fresh app install and app data is gone, no?
What a horrible mess, local app backups that can easily be redeployed along their data was one of the key advantages over Android for me.
Well, at least this eases in a possible move to Android one day a lot better.
Glassed Silver:ios
They would be gone unless you saved them locally for a manual install form iTunes like you mentioned. I don't know what happens to the data from that in this scenario.
This all depends on whether you accepted the terms of Agreement on iTunes 12.7. I said no, and can still use iTunes 12.6 instead and none of my apps are gone. By doing this, you can easily relocate them to stop Apple from deleting them.
I personally think someone should start a class action against Apple for deleting your apps without warning. It's the moral equivalent of stealing from you just by getting you to click OK to take all your stuff from your house.
Apple did not delete anything. If you installed iTunes 12.7 all your iOS are still there on your mac where they always were. You will need to manually delete them if you want to free up that space.
A class action lawsuit would be totally useless. You can redownload any app on the AppStore from the device it is used on. I applaud Apple for this move.