Resetting iPhone to Factory Settings

Resetting iPhone to factory settings provides your iPhone to how you bought it. Learn how to bring back iPhone to factory settings, why it should be done, what you could lose when you do it and ways to restore your saved data after conducting a restore.
Resetting iPhone is simple; but first you will have to figure out which form of reset you'll want to perform. If your iPhone is frozen or unresponsive, try rebooting your iPhone using a soft or hard reset of one's phone. Restoring the iPhone to factory settings may be used if your phone freezes frequently or has other performance issues. Resetting iPhone to factory settings is a good idea if you are selling your iPhone to somebody else. Be cautious with this form of reset, mainly because it will wipe your phone clean of the saved data (songs, pictures, downloaded apps, contacts, etc.)
As mentioned, restoring your iPhone will wipe the telephone clean. You will lose all data added to your phone, including contacts, music, calendar entries, photos, etc. When you restore your iPhone it really is returned to how it was when you bought it.
Before you reset to factory settings, make sure you check to ensure that you have the most current version of iTunes installed. Also back up the data on your own iPhone. A support will allow you to return all your data for a phone after you perform the restore. This can be done by syncing together with your computer before restoring your phone.
To return your iPhone back to its original condition, all you need to do is restore your phone. This method for resetting iPhone clears all data from the device and brings it to how you bought it. So let's be able to it. To restore your iPhone, adopt these measures:
1) Connect your iPhone to your computer.
2) In iTunes, within the Devices, select your iPhone.
3) Select the 'Summary' tab across the top.
4) Click 'Restore'. (See screenshot below for steps 1-4)

5) After clicking 'Restore', you will end up asked if you're sure that you would like to restore your iPhone to factory settings (see instance of the window pop-up below). Click 'Restore' in case you are ready.
6) After confirming that you like to restore your iPhone, your iPhone is taken through several steps to regenerate it to factory settings. Notifications will pop-up to let you know which phase in the process the telephone is in. The phases happen in the following order: Extracting software, Verifying iPhone restore, Preparing iPhone girls number for friendship restore, Preparing iPhone for software restore, Restoring iPhone software, Verifying iPhone software, Verifying iPhone restore, Restoring iPhone firmware. These phases take several minutes to perform. Do not disconnect your phone while the phone is in the procedure for restoring.

7) The following notification appears to inform you your iPhone has been restored to factory settings and is also restarting. Click 'Ok'.

8) After you click 'Ok', your phone will restart. The Apple logo is displayed while it really is starting up. When the phone comes back on, possibly the iPhone says to connect to iTunes (see below for screenshot).

Ignore this screen, do not disconnect your iPhone. Wait until this screen goes away completely and changes to say "iPhone is activated" (see screenshot below).


Your iPhone is now restored to factory settings. You have no further steps to adhere to if you want your phone to keep free of data. If you want your phone restored from backup (to return your entire saved data to your phone), keep to the steps to regenerate your iPhone from backup around the next page.


After your iPhone has been restored and activated it is time to bring back your phone through the backup. Make sure that you usually do not disconnect your phone after it is activated before completing these steps.
1) When the 'Set Up Your iPhone' option appears in iTunes (see screenshot below), select the proper device from your drop down menu and click on 'Continue'.

2) Restoring your iPhone from backup will take several minutes. Make sure to not disconnect your phone during the process. The following notification will pop-up to inform you that your iPhone has been restored in the backup:

3) Wait until these notification appears to be inform you the settings on your iPhone happen to be restored (see screenshot below). Click 'Ok'.
4) Your phone will once more be restarted. Do not disconnect. This will take up to several minutes at the same time.
5) Wait until the phone comes back on and syncs using your computer. Once the sync is complete, you've got successfully restored your iPhone. Do not disconnect your iPhone until iTunes says the sync is complete and it is safe to disconnect your device.




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If you attempted to restore your iPhone with the most up to date version of iTunes and received an "Unable to regenerate and update" error message or perhaps the restore didn't correct the problems that prompted you to bring back your phone, you may contact Apple to schedule an Apple Expert to call you to definitely troubleshoot together with you over the device. If there is an Apple Store in the area, you could also go in in your local Apple Store.
If your restore was unsuccessful and you also did NOT contain the most current version of iTunes installed, install the most recent version of iTunes and try the restore again.