{"id":405374,"date":"2017-09-23T23:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/force-restart-or-hard-reset-iphone-8-and-8-plus&amp;post_date=1506192002\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T15:40:02","slug":"how-to-force-restart-or-hard-reset-the-iphone-8-and-iphone-8-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/how-to-force-restart-or-hard-reset-the-iphone-8-and-iphone-8-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Force Restart or Hard Reset the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has changed the method to force restart or hard reset an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, as outlined in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT203122\">support document<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2016\/05\/silvergoldiphone8-800x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"673\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-590475\"\/><br \/>While rebooting an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus requires pressing and holding both the Sleep\/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears, restarting an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus takes three steps.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Apple now refers to the Sleep\/Wake button as the Side button as of the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Force Restart or Hard Reset the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/09\/how-to-hard-reset-force-restart-iphone-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"514\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-591748\"\/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press and quickly release the <strong>Volume Up<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Press and quickly release the <strong>Volume Down<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Press and hold the <strong>Side button<\/strong> (aka power) until you see the Apple logo.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Powering off regularly still requires holding down the Side button for a few seconds until the &#8220;slide to power off&#8221; prompt appears. In iOS 11, there&#8217;s also a &#8220;Shut Down&#8221; option in the Settings app at the bottom of the General menu.<\/p>\n<p>Force restarting an iPhone is different than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/reset-dfu-mode-iphone-7\/\">recovery using DFU mode<\/a>, for which the steps remain the same as the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has changed the method to force restart or hard reset an iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, as outlined in a recent support document. While rebooting an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus requires pressing and holding both the Sleep\/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least 10 seconds, until the Apple logo appears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":405375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-405374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}