iPhone Issues

Our first category of troubleshooting techniques applies to an iPhone that’s frozen or otherwise acting up. The recommended procedure when this happens is to perform the seven Rs in sequence:

check.png Recharge your iPhone

check.png Restart your iPhone

check.png Reset your iPhone

check.png Remove content from your iPhone

check.png Reset your iPhone’s settings and content

check.png Restore your iPhone

check.png Renew your iPhone in Recovery mode

If your iPhone acts up on you — if it freezes, doesn’t wake up from sleep, doesn’t do something it used to do, or in any other way acts improperly — don’t panic. This section describes the things you should try, in the order that we (and Apple) recommend.

If the first technique doesn’t do the trick, go on to the second. If the second one doesn’t work, try the third. And so on.

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