Restore An iPad Or iPhone That Is Stuck In Recovery Mode

Has your iPad or iPhone been jammed and you want to restore it? Then it may happen that the device stays stuck in recovery mode. This tip breaks you through the problem.

Repair an iPad or iPhone and troubleshoot

If you have trouble with your iPhone or iPad, you can often fix them by rebooting the device. If this does not work, try a forced restart. To do this, press and hold the Lock and Home button until the Apple logo screen appears. In nine out of ten, this is enough to talk to your iPhone or iPad again. However, the device may still be in recovery mode. The white or black screen with the Apple logo appears, but nothing happens afterwards.

There are several solutions. If you do not use an access code, you can simply connect the device to your Mac to restore or restore a backup. However, most users have an access code. The problem is that iTunes asks you to enter this code on your iPhone or iPad before you can restore the device. Of course, this is not possible because it is stuck in recovery mode. In this case, you can restore an iPad or iPhone by following the steps below:

1.   Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to your computer;

2.   Hold down the Lock and Home button for three seconds;

3.   Release the buttons and hold them down again for ten seconds now;

4.   Then press only the home button for 15 seconds in length;

5.   The iTunes logo and Lightning cable appear now

6.   Follow the instructions in iTunes on your Mac or PC.

By breaking the iPhone or iPad recovery mode, you can re-operate the device from iTunes. Then choose to restore the device so that all data is erased and you can start with a good new iDevice again. This can take a lot of time, on average, you are busy with half an hour to an hour. Make sure your iPhone or iPad stays connected with your Mac at that time. This will make sure that factory reset is resilient.