

We've got more iPhone how-tos for you if you need more advice or tips. If you're reading this in advance of trying to put your own iPhone into recovery mode, then ensure you set aside some time where you can babysit your phone through the process.

Read more about how to back up your iPhone in this guide so you're prepared in case of situations like this.įrom start to finish, the whole process took us the best part of an hour to complete. Either way, you shouldn't lose much if any data if you have an iPhone backup set-up. Once the reset is done, you will either be able to set the iPhone into data recovery mode (shown here), or set it up from scratch if it was fully reset.
