Outside of the iPhone SE, every iPhone Apple Apple sells today features an “edge-to-edge” display without a physical home button. If you are upgrading from a device with the Home button, this refresher course can help you learn how to restart your iPhone 12, enter recovery mode, DFU mode, etc. Inside our hand-on video tutorial for details See.
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This will work for the tutorial All New iPhone 12 release, including the iPhone 12 Pro, and the upcoming iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max. From now on, when using the term iPhone 12, I am referring to all iPhone 12 models.
You will need to familiarize yourself with the buttons on your iPhone to perform any of the following tasks. The left side of the iPhone has two volume buttons, with the opposite side side button.
Due to the lack of a home button in modern iPhone hardware, the side button with volume buttons, when forced to reset, enters recovery mode, DFU mode.
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How to turn off iPhone 12
Powering the iPhone 12 can be accomplished in a number of ways. The easiest way to power an iPhone 12 is to hold down the side button simultaneously with one of the volume buttons. Slide to close The slider appears at the top of the screen. From there, just slide to turn off your iPhone.
You can also go to Settings → General, scroll to the bottom of the page and tap this stop it Button will cause this Slide to close Slider to appear at the top of the screen.
How to turn on iPhone 12
To back up your iPhone 12, press and hold the side button until the logo moment appears on the screen. If this doesn’t work, your iPhone may need to be charged. If your iPhone has a black screen and the side button doesn’t work, it could be because your iPhone 12 is in DFU mode. Watch the tutorial on how to exit DFU mode below.
How to force iPhone 12 to restart
To restart the iPhone 12, do the following in Quick Subsequent:
Step 1: Press and hold Volume Up.
Step 2: Press and hold down the volume.
Step 3: Press and hold the side button until you see a black screen.
Your iPhone 12 will restart and will boot to the screen automatically.
How To Put iPhone 12 In Recovery iPhone Recovery Mode
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to your computer with a power USB cable. If this is your first time connecting your iPhone to your computer, you have to tap this Confidence Button that appears on Trust this computer The dialog that appears. You will then need to enter your passcode on your iPhone to confirm the pairing.
Next, complete the following steps in Quick Succession:
Step 2: Press and hold Volume Up.
Step 3: Press and hold down the volume.
Step 4: Press and hold the side button until you see a computer dialog connected to the screen.
If you are connected to a device, you should see the Finder window to acknowledge that your iPhone 12 has been put into recovery mode. From there you have the option to update or restore iOS.
How to get out of recovery mode on iPhone 12
To exit recovery mode, press and hold the side button until the computer is connected to the dialog. Your iPhone should automatically boot into the screen
How to put iPhone 12 in DFU mode
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to your computer with a power USB cable. If this is your first time connecting your iPhone to your computer, you have to tap this Confidence Button that appears on Trust this computer The dialog that appears. You will then need to enter your passcode on your iPhone to confirm the pairing.
Next, complete the following steps in Quick Succession:
Step 2: Press and hold Volume Up.
Step 3: Press and hold down the volume.
Step 4: Press the side button for 10 seconds and continue holding.
Step 5: While holding the side button, press and hold the volume down button for 5 seconds.
Step 6: Release the side button and hold the volume down button for an additional 10 seconds.
When you successfully enter DFU mode, your iPhone should be on a black screen. If you see the Apple Pal logo, something went wrong and you have to try again.
If you are connected to Mtk, Finder should acknowledge that you have entered recovery mode. Instead of having the option to update iOS, you should only look at the restore option, which is another indication that you have successfully entered DFU mode.
How to get out of DFU mode on iPhone 12
Exiting DFU mode involves a little more than exiting regular recovery mode:
Step 1: Press and hold Volume Up.
Step 2: Press and hold down the volume.
Step 3: Press and hold the side button until you see the Apple Pal logo. Your iPhone should boot back to the touch screen.
How to temporarily disable face ID on iPhone 12
To temporarily disable FaceID on the iPhone 12, press and hold any of the volume buttons along the side button until. Slide to close Slider appears. Tap the ‘X’ button at the bottom of the screen to return to the screen and you will see a message saying Your passcode is required to enable face ID. Once you enter your device’s passcode, Face ID will automatically reactivate.
How to use Emergency SOS on iPhone 12
Warning: Activating Emergency SOS will contact emergency officials. Please use this feature only in case of actual emergency.
There are three ways to request an Emergency SOS on iPhone 12:
- Press and hold one of the volume buttons along with the side button and hold each button to trigger an emergency SOS.
- Until then press and hold one of the volume buttons with the side button Slide to close Slider appears. Use the Emergency SOS Slider to activate Emergency SOS.
- Go to Settings → Emergency SOS and enable this Call with side button Switch. This allows you to press the side button 5 times in quick succession to get to the emergency S.O.S.
If you are upgrading from the Home button to an iPhone, such as an iPhone or or iPhone, or a second-generation iPhone SE, then the methods for performing all of the above are a little different than you might think.
However, you will never need to use recovery mode, and it is more likely to use DFU mode. Each Must be familiar with how to restart their iPhone. Force-restart is easy for those occasional instances when your iPhone is extremely bogged down or not fully responsive. If you take just one tip from this tutorial, there should definitely be a How to Force Resume.
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