If you need to force restart an iPhone X, you’ll have to learn a new procedure, as Apple has modified the way you force restart an iPhone X compared to previous iPhone models. This is partly due to the iPhone X’s lack of a Home button, which means that the long-standing method of forcing a reboot is no longer available.
Instead of utilising a series of button presses to force restart the iPhone X, you can now use a series of button presses to force restart the device. This guide will show you how to do a forced restart, often known as a hard reboot, on your iPhone X.
The procedure may seem unusual at first because it’s different, breaking whatever habits you may have built with force restarting previous iOS devices, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be able to force restart iPhone X almost as rapidly as you did prior devices. You must also make certain that you push the buttons in the correct order, as stated, otherwise the iPhone X will not force restart.
How to Restart an iPhone X for the First Time
For iPhone X to force restart, you must press the buttons in this order: the first two buttons are pressed and then released, and the final button is held until the force reboot occurs. The following is how it works:
- Press and hold the Volume Up button, then let go.
- Press and hold the Volume Down button, then let go.
- On the right side of the iPhone X, press and hold the Power/Lock button.
- Hold the Power/Lock/Side buttons down until the Apple logo shows on the iPhone X’s screen.
It may take a bit for the Apple logo to display on the screen, but once it does, you’ll know you’ve successfully forced the iPhone X to restart.
Remember that to force reboot iPhone X, you must hit the buttons in the correct order; if that fails, simply start over and try again.
If you press the buttons at the same time, you’ll most likely snap a screenshot on iPhone X or activate the Emergency Calling feature, neither of which you’re probably looking for if you just want to restart the phone. The right method is to go up, down, and hold Power.
This is yet another evolving change in the iOS world, but it turns out that forcibly rebooting an iPhone X with the new button sequence is also how you forcibly reboot an iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, though it differs from forcibly rebooting an iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which differs from forcibly rebooting iPhone 6s, 6, 5, 4, and iPad models with clickable Home buttons. With the process altering on many occasions, time will tell if we’ll see another change with forced restarts on iOS devices in the future.
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