The iphones are incorporated with a faster A14 Bionic processor which boasts of very high performance. Even though it may be of high performance but that will not stop the occasional need to force restart the mobile device. In this article you will find the steps you need to reboot your iPhone 12 if a graceful Shut Down is not possible.
In situations, where the iPhone stops responding to touches and individual button presses the simplest course of action is to hard reset the iPhone device . In this scenario, you have to forcefully restart iPhone 12.
This article will take you through the standard way of turning off your iPhone, and then do the forced restart. It is usually advisable to go for the first method, but the second is also additionally useful as it is generally a quicker process to reboot and far more likely to work.
This method will work for all new iPhone 12 releases including the iPhone 12 Pro and the forthcoming iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max. Henceforth, when using the term iPhone 12, we are referring to all iPhone 12 models.
Since the modern iPhone lacks Home button, the Side button along with the volume buttons, play instrumental roles when it comes to turning the iPhone off, force restarting, entering recovery mode, DFU mode and enabling Emergency SOS etc. With this the process to force reboot is also different from older iPhones featuring a home button like the iPhone 7, iPhone 8.
Please note that force restart, hard reset, force reboot all mean the same thing and you’ll see these terms and phrases are used interchangeably.
How To Reboot or Restart iPhone 12/ iPhone 12 Pro/ iPhone 12 Pro Max/ iPhone 12 Mini
How to turn off iPhone 12
Turning off the iPhone 12 can be done via a couple of methods. The easiest way to turn off the iPhone 12 is to hold the Side button along with one of the volume buttons until the slide to power off slider appears at the top of the screen. Then just slide to power off your iPhone.
You can also go to Settings ,then General,then scroll down to bottom of the page, and tap the Shut Down option. This will cause the ‘slide to power off’ slider to appear on top of the screen.
How to turn on iPhone 12
To power your iPhone 12 back up, press and hold the Side button until the logo of Apple appears on screen. If this does not work then your iPhone may need to be charged. If your iPhone has a black screen and the Side button does not function, it could be because your iPhone 12 is in DFU mode.
How to restart the iPhone 12
First Quickly press and release the volume up button then do the same with volume down button.
- Press and hold down the side button.
- When the logo of Apple appears, release the side button.
While this method will attempt to reboot your iPhone device, it may not necessarily fix the problem. Apple’s help and support pages offer further advice if the iPhone won’t turn back on, including the way to restore the device in more serious cases.