Many times it has crossed our mind the possibility of doing a hard reset or a reset of the phone with factory settings, but for fear of not doing it correctly and for not knowing the consequences we have ended up abandoning the idea.
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This process to return to the initial values is not complex at all , but you have to know that a factory reset makes the phone look like the first time it was taken out of the box, so it is very important that the first step is to make a backup to keep everything you do not want to lose as photos, videos, music, contacts and information on your phone.
So now you will no longer have excuses for not restarting your phone because we will show you the steps that must be followed to make an iPhone 7 reset with factory settings , to forget about those continuous problems unexpected reboots, late keyboard responses, connectivity problems with WiFi or Bluetooth, performance problems, or simply because you are going to give or sell your phone to someone else and you don’t want them to have access to all the data.
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Steps to restart your iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus values initials even if locked
Apple makes available to its users a variety of methods to perform a complete restart of their iPhone 7 mobile phone. All of them are very easy to apply and it won’t take you more than a few minutes to do so. Here we show you what each one is.
From iPhone 7
If we want to reset and restore the factory settings of our Apple smartphone we must follow these steps:
- Enter « Settings»
- We will look for the « General» tab among the phone options.
- Once inside the general tab, we will scroll to the bottom where we will find the option « Reset» and select the tab « Delete contents and settings»
- It will indicate that we put our unlock code, we have to enter it.
- And finally we will select Delete Now so that our cell phone is restored .
Something you should keep in mind if you are going to change your device, is that you must make a backup before proceeding to restore your mobile so you do not lose any of your information . There are several ways to make a backup, but here we will show you a very simple one, you should go to the Settings option and look for iCloud.
Once inside the iCloud menu, you will look for the Backup option. You must activate the Copy to iCloud button, and from that moment the process to create and save your backup will begin. It should be noted that these copies will begin to be made automatically from time to time, but you only have 5GB of space in the cloud.
If you want to store more information you must pay an iCloud subscription that gives you unlimited storage to save all the information you want.
Hard Reset on IPhone 7 from iTunes
In the event that we forget or don’t know the unlock code , we can reset the phone through iTunes with these steps that we will describe below
- The first thing to do is connect our iPhone 7 to a computer that already has the iTunes application installed, we will verify that the battery is fully charged, we will plug in the cell phone and follow these steps :
- If the message “ Trust this computer? ” appears, you will select yes and continue.
- With the phone on or off, we will press and hold the volume down button and on / off button .
- After about 10 seconds the screen will show us the Apple icon, we must keep both buttons pressed and the phone will enter mode DFU (Device Firmware Update) .
- Our computer should indicate that the iPhone is in DFU mode . The Restore option will appear on the iTunes screen, which we will select, and we will accept all the terms and conditions you indicate.
- We can only wait for our phone to be restored and once the process is finished , we can continue using our smartphone, yes, we must configure it with a new password.
Restore iPhone without iTunes, with a program
Tenorshare iCareFone is the name of this wonderful program that will allow us to restore the device from the factory, super easy and without a password, it is also a file explorer, a cleaner and even an optimizer for IOS.
- The first thing will be to search our browser and download Tenorshare iCAreFone .
- Once done, you will start the program on your computer and access the option « More Tools », and you will select the option« IOS System Repair ».
- The option« Advanced Mode » will help you delete all the contents of the device and restore all the settings as factory.
- You will proceed to download a file called iOS firmware and when the download is complete your phone will be restored as factory.
How to perform a forced reset on your iPhone 7?
Another thing you can do to reset your iPhone or iPad device is a forced restart in case the mobile phone lags and cannot function normally. To do this you must use the volume down and on / off buttons on the phone , what we must do is keep both buttons pressed until we appear the Apple logo in the screen, once this happens the restart of the mobile phone will already be in process.
The purpose of this is to solve problems with applications that freeze or when the screen does not respond, with this mode we can restart our device without deleting anything.