alex.cvitanovic

After spend­ing at least 40 min­utes read­ing unclear arti­cles about how to reset your iPhone, here is a work­ing set of instruc­tions. Fol­low­ing these will put your iPhone in fac­tory restore (DFU) mode. This can be help­ful for jail­break­ing + gen­eral trou­bleshoot­ing. As far as I’m aware, these will work on all iPhone + ipod touch mod­els. (iphone 3G + iPhone 3G S).

For exam­ple, I want to upgrade to the lat­est relase of the iPhone soft­ware, but because I have a beta soft­ware ver­sion installed, itunes will not update the soft­ware with­out going into DFU mode and man­u­ally updat­ing the software.

1. Turn phone off (if the phone is already off, there is no need to turn it on then off again).
2. Have your trusty iPhone USB cable plugged into your com­puter and close-by for easy reach. Don’t plug it in yet.
3. Hold down the home but­ton (the round one) — Don’t let go!
4. After a few sec­onds of hold­ing the home but­ton, insert the iPhone USB cable. Don’t let go of the home but­ton dur­ing this entire process.

After 10–15 sec­onds you should see the iphone screen turn purple/black with a pic­ture of a USB cable + itunes logo (First gen­er­a­tion iphones will dis­play an excla­ma­tion point). From here, itunes will launch, alert you to an iphone detected in restore mode, fol­low the prompts to restore and wa-la! Brand new iPhone (well, at least on the inside).

Tagged as DFU, factory restore, iPhone, reset + Categorized as Technology, Apple