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How to restart iPhone 4S

How to reset the iPhone 4S

Are you planning to buy a mobile phone, but before investing some of your savings to buy a new device, you would like sell its now old iPhone 4S? Yes? Well, it seems like a very good idea, it doesn't rain on that However, before doing this, let me suggest that restart iPhone 4S to prevent data, photos, applications and anything else stored on your device from ending up in the hands of unauthorized third parties. How do you say? Have you already thought about it but have no idea how to do it? But don't worry… you can count on me this time too. In fact, I can explain to you, step by step, how to restart iPhone 4S.

Before you can get alarmed and wonder who knows what, however, I would like to immediately point out that, contrary to appearances, restarting the iPhone 4S is not complicated at all. For this you do not need to be a geek or an expert in new technologies, you have my word.

That being said, if you are really interested in figuring out what needs to be done to restart iPhone 4S, I suggest that you take a few minutes of free time, grab your device, and sit back. You will see that in half an hour or so you will have completed the entire procedure and you will also be ready to say that it was actually very easy. Let it be?

Depending on what your needs are, to reset the iPhone 4S you can implement two different systems: you can act by Pc, using iTunes software, or you can act directly from the device, through its configuration. Obviously, the choice of which of the two solutions to adopt to reset is up to you, the result is identical.

Preliminary operations

Before starting the procedure to restart iPhone 4S, I suggest you do a financial of the data on your iDevice. When making a BackupIn fact, you will have the possibility to recover settings, photos, applications, etc., if you plan to hand over your device to third parties and you can do the same even if you intend to buy a new iPhone.

If you don't know how to backup data on your iPhone 4S, you can follow the instructions in my guide on how to backup iPhone.

Reset iPhone 4S from PC

If it is your intention to restart the iPhone 4S from the PC, the first thing to do is connect the iPhone to your PC to your Mac using the appropriate cable supplied with the device and wait for it to start up. iTunes.

If you are using a Mac, iTunes is "standard" in OS X. If you are using a Windows PC and you have not installed iTunes yet, you can easily fix it by clicking here to connect to the corresponding section of Apple's official website through which the media player can be downloaded. Then press the Download placed aside and wait for it iTunesSetup.exe be downloaded to your PC. When the download is complete, launch the iTunes installation package and click the buttons in sequence Venga, Install on pc es si (twice in a row) then press final to complete the setup procedure.

Check now that the anti-theft function is not activated on your iPhone Find my iphone and if not, disable it. In fact, when this function is active, it prevents the phone from being reset to factory settings. To disable the Find My iPhone feature, press the configurations present on the home screen of your iPhone 4S, select the item iCloud and then tap on Find my iphone in the menu that opens. Then go up OFF the option switch Find my iphone then enter your Apple ID password.

Now connect your iPhone 4S to one of the USB sockets of your PC using the appropriate cable and then wait for iTunes to start automatically. Once the software window is displayed, press the icon that represents an iPhone in the upper left. If this is the first time you connect the iPhone to the PC, you must authorize the connection between the two devices pressing the button first authorize on the phone screen and then on the button Follow that appears on the desktop of the PC. Then click on the item Your Order attached to the left sidebar and then click on the button Restore iphone ... located at the top right of iTunes and accept the terms of use of iOS pressing first on Reset / Restore and Update, Then in Following and finally in I agree.

Please note that the process requires an active connection as the most up-to-date version of iOS will be downloaded from Internet and then it will be installed in the terminal. Considering that the weight of the software is far from small, know that it might take a while to complete the download.

Then a message will appear warning you that the iPhone 4S has been restarted and therefore has been restored to factory state. iTunes will ask if you intend to set up the device as a new one or if you want to restore the apps and data from the previous backup. Of course, if you want to sell your iPhone 4S to a third party, do not carry out more operations and let its new owner combine the device as he pleases. If, on the contrary, it is your intention to configure the device as if it were new, place the check mark next to the item Set up as a new iPhone and follow all the steps of the procedure that you see on the screen (for more details you can consult my guide on how activate iPhone).

Reset iPhone 4S from the device

If, on the other hand, you are interested in understanding how to reset the iPhone 4S without having to resort to using the computer, the steps that you must perform are very few and very simple.

To restart the iPhone 4S without a PC, the first thing you should do is grab your iPhone, access its home screen and press the section icon configurations of your device. Once done, tap on the item General then scroll through the displayed screen and press Restore.

On the new screen that appears at this point, tap the item Delete configuration content then enter the lock code of your device, confirm the operation by pressing the button that appears at the bottom of the screen (the one with the text in red) and wait for the procedure to restart the iPhone 4S without Pc.

Wait a few minutes for the whole procedure to complete and for all iOS settings to be restored to factory state and phone data to be deleted, then wait for the Apple logo to appear on the device screen.

Once the Apple logo is displayed, you can decide whether you want to set the device as a new iPhone or restore a previous backup. If you're going to sell the phone, don't do anything. If you intend to continue using the iPhone, restore the backup.

However, keep in mind that in addition to the function to reset iPhone 4S that I just indicated, you can choose between other options that allow you to reset part of the contents and settings saved on your iDevice. You can select the item Reset settings if you want to reset all iOS settings without delete data or you can choose the item Reset network settings if you want to reset the wireless network and data connection settings. You can select the item instead Reset the dictionary of keyboard whether it is your intention to restore the keyboard settings to the factory state or you can select Reset startup layout if you just want to restore the default order of the icons on the home screen. You can also select Reset location and privacy if you want to reset your privacy and geographic location settings.

What to do if the iPhone 4S cannot be reset

In the unfortunate case that you can't reset iPhone 4S due to some error, don't worry, put the phone in DFU mode you can still restore it to factory state. If you don't already know, know that DFU mode is nothing more than a special mode that completely removes the contents of the phone memory and bypasses some of the restrictions provided by the standard reset procedure.

To put your device in DFU mode, all you have to do is connect it to the PC and turn it off completely by holding down the key Power for a few seconds and moving the lever displayed on the screen to the right to turn it off that appears on the screen. So you have to keep the keys pressed Power es Home simultaneously for about ten seconds, release the button Power and keep holding Home until iTunes detects the device in recovery mode.

After successfully putting your iPhone 4S into DFU mode, click the button Okay that you see on the PC screen and restart the phone by clicking the button Restore iphone iTunes (for more details you can see my guide on how to put the iPhone in DFU).