How to delete iPhone content & settings | How to reset, restart, restore, wipe or erase iPhone or iPad

In the below tutorial you will learn how to reset an iPhone or iPad and how to erase a Disabled iPhone or iPad when you forgot the Password or passcode. Always make sure that when you are selling your iPhone or iPad to other person, please Erase all iPhone settings and wipe your iPhone or wipe your iPad.  if you are acing iPhone is stuck problems and your iPhone or iPad is continuously getting stuck and frozen, then we can teach you how to reset Your iPhone or iPad and restore iPhone/iPad from a iTunes or iCloud back up. Follow the below steps and instructions in this article to know how to reset, restore and reboot your iPhone or iPad if it hangs or your iPhone freezes. Read on to find out how to erase your iPhone or iPad, and restore everything again afterwards.

How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: How to fix a frozen iPhone or iPad

What to Do When Your iPhone or iPad Won’t Turn On? This guide will show you how to fix a frozen iPhone without losing your data or visiting an Apple Store for help. You can fix a frozen iPhone in seconds without a computer or iTunes. You can also use this to fix a frozen iPad.

An iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch may fail to turn on if its battery is completely dead. When the battery is completely dead, it won’t respond and you’ll just see the black screen. Connect your iPhone or iPad to a  charger, give it some time maybe half an hour or even more minutes. This will fix your device if its battery was just completely drained.

Hard Reset iPhone or iPad or Hard Reboot: You can fix a frozen iPhone in about ten seconds by pressing and holding the power and home button at the same time until the iPhone restarts. Once the iPhone screen changes from the frozen state to showing an Apple logo or just a blank screen you can let go.

This is a hard reboot. By pressing and holding the home button and power button you force the iPhone to restart. This is similar to holding the power button on a Macbook or laptop or just unplugging a device from power.

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: What to do if your iPhone has crashed

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch won‘t turn on or If your iPhone or iPad or other iOS device has become unresponsive or your iPhone screen is Black or frozen, or it is turned off and not turning off, then Your device might have a frozen screen that doesn’t respond when you touch it or press buttons. Or maybe your device begins to turn on, but gets stuck during startup .

STEP #1: If your iPhone or iPad screen is black or frozen:

Then you must try to force your iPhone or iPad device to restart.

• Forcing your iPhone or iPad to restart will not erase the content of your iOS device.
• You can force your iPhone or iPad device to restart even if your screen is black or your buttons aren’t responding.

To force restart an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo.

To force restart an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo.

If your  iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad, or iPod touch is still unresponsive and won‘t turn on by following the above step then you should see Step 2.

STEP #2: If your iPhone or iPad still won’t turn on or start up

The first thing you should do is Plug in your device and Charge it for up to one hour. You will see a charging sign on iPhone or iPad screen after some minutes or seconds. If by any chance Your iPhone or iPad is not showing any charging sign on screen within an hour, or you see the connect to power screen, check the jack, USB cable, and power adapter. Make sure that everything is plugged in firmly, free of debris, and not damaged. You shpuld change or try other usb cable and chrager to charge your iPhone or iPad.

If your  iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad, or iPod touch is still unresponsive and won‘t turn on by following the above step then you should see Step 3.

STEP #3: If your iPhone or iPad turns on but gets stuck during start up screen or iPhone Stuck on Apple Logo

If your device is turning on but is getting stuck on apple logo or iPhone is freezing during start up and not going past Apple Logo Screen, then follow the below article.  You Must Try the below steps, if You are seeing the Apple logo or a red or blue screen for a long time during iPhone or iPad startup.

1. Connect your iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5s, or iPad to a computer and then open iTunes on your Mac PC or Windows PC.
2. Now you have to Force restart your iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5s, or iPad device while it is connected to iTunes .
   • If you are using an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons at the same time.
   • If you Using an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons at the same time.
3. Keep holding the buttons until you see the recovery mode screen on your iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch, iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. See the below picture:
4. Now Select or click on Update. As shown in the below Screenshot. Now, iTunes will try to reinstall iOS without erasing your data on your iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch, iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus. 

iTunes will download the software for your device. If it takes more than 15 minutes, your device will exit recovery mode and you’ll need to repeat steps 2 and 3.

If your  iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad, or iPod touch is still unresponsive and won‘t turn on by following the above step then you should see Step 4.

STEP #4: Contact Apple Support to set up service if you have any of these issues:

• You still see a black screen after charging, force restarting, or following the above steps.
• iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad is showing  black screen, but you can hear alerts, sounds, and vibrations.
• Your iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad screen is on, but it doesn’t respond when you tap, slide.
• You can’t force your iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad to restart because your Home button or Sleep/Wake button is broken or stuck.
• Your iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 5S, iPad is stuck on the Apple logo, displays a solid color, or isn’t recognized in iTunes.

You can fix a frozen iPhone in seconds by pressing and holding the power and home button at the same time until the iPhone restarts. Once the iPhone screen changes from the frozen state to showing an Apple logo or just a blank screen you can let go.

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: How to force restart iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus

If you are using an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, then you should know that  the iPhone 7 does not has a physical home button. So, to Force restart or Hard reset iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus:

• Force restart or Hard Reset iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons at the same time. After holding these two buttons for a short while, your iPhone will turn off its display and you will soon see the Apple logo appear.

How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: How to back up an iPhone or iPad before you wipe it

You have two options to backup your iPhone or iPad; Using iCloud or using iTunes on Your Mac PC or Windows PC.

Before you delete or reset iPhone or iPad make sure that you had a backup for it. To make a backup of your iPhone or iPad before erasing, deleting or Resetting it.

For iCloud: Just go to Settings then Go to > iCloud > and then Backup and make sure that the Backup feature is enabled for your iPhone or iPad device. Tap Back Up Now. Stay connected to your Wi-Fi network until the process completes. Make sure that the backup finished: Tap Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, then select your device. The backup should appear in the details with the time and backup size.

For iTunes: Open iTunes and connect your device to your computer. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod when it appears in iTunes. Under backup tab, Just click Back Up Now. You can see if your backup finished successfully in iTunes Preferences > Devices. (If you’re using iTunes for Windows, choose Edit > Devices from the menu bar at the top of the iTunes window

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: How to factory reset your iPhone or iPad

So, after backing up your iPhone or iPad data, you can Erase, delete or Factory reset your iPhone or iPad. NOTE: This process will completely wipe your iPhone or iPad device, for that reason i just showed you in the above step how you can Backup your iPhone or iPad befor Resetting, erasing, or Deleting it’s content or data.

Factory resetting iPhone or iPad can fix many Error’s and issues on iPhone or iPad. If your iPhone or iPad is crashing or freezing then you can go for iPhone factory reset or iPad factory reset. And if you are selling your iPhone or iPad then you should always factory reset iPhone or factory reset iPad to save your data.

You can easily Erase an iPhone or iPad. The steps for Erasing, resetting or Wiping Your iPhone data is simple. just follow the below steps to unlock a Disable iPhone or iPad by factory resetting it.

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Note the below two steps to reset or factory reset or restore iPhone or iPad are for those, who has the iPhone or iPad passcode. And, if you have forgotten the iPhone or iPad passcode or password and your iPhone or iPad is disabled and you want to factory reset iPhone or iPad then follow this article > iPad factory reset without password – How to reset iPad without password

And if you know the password follow the below steps.

To reset your iPhone or iPad: Tap Settings, then General. Scroll down until you see Reset. ap Erase All Content and Settings. After typing in your passcode , you’ll see a warning message,Erase iPhone (or iPad). Just Click or Tap on it. Now you will have to enter your Apple ID password. This is so the account can be removed from your device, and Find My iPhone can be switched off. Resetting it using the method we’re describing here will prevent the iPhone asking for an Apple ID when it restarts.

Reset iPhone or iPad Using iTunes: Open iTunes on your Mac or PC. Just follow the instructions if it asks for your device passcode or to Trust This Computer.  If you forgot your passcode, get help. Select your iPhone, iPad, or iPod when it appears in iTunes. In the Summary panel, click Restore [device]. Click Restore again to confirm. Then iTunes erases your device and installs the latest iOS or iPod software. After iPhone or iPad restarts, you can set it up as new.

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: Deleting apps and other items individually

If you want to free some space on your iPhone and iPad then you can this option.

Just Go to Settings > then General > then Usage. You will now see the space available on your iPhone or iPad, you can also see which apps are using more memory on your iPhone or iPad.

RESET ALL iPhone SETTINGS: This will reset all settings. This will not delete any data. If you’ve got 16GB of music, videos and photos, this option won’t remove it. Open Settings > General. Scroll down to the bottom and tap on ‘Reset’.  Select Reset All Settings > Tap button to Reset All Settings > Tap Button Again to continue.

To delete an app you’re finished with, click it in this list, then Delete App and confirm. Alternatively, from the Home screen you can tap and hold any icon, then tap the X at the top left of an app to delete the app. (If it hasn’t got an X, you can’t delete it.)

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: Restore an iPhone or iPad via iCloud backup

After you have erased or wiped the content of your iPhone or iPad to factory settings, you can restore the old content of your iPhone from Your iCloud backup, if you have one.

After, factory resetting your iPhone or iPad, you will have to go through the iPhone or iPad setup process. You will have to enter al the details like your details, WiFi password. After doing all this stuff and filling information iPhone or iPad Setup screen will give you three options to choose from:  Set Up as a New iPhone, Restore from iCloud Backup or Restore from iTunes backup. So, in here, just choose iCloud backup.

Now, you will have to enter your iCloud credentials Like email, user id, and Password. Just agree to the term and conditions and follow the instructions until your iPhone will begin restoring all of your data.

Depending on your iPhone or iPad backup size, You might have to wait for sometime. Just follow the below steps to know how to restore a iPhone or iPad from iTunes which is factory reset or restored to factory settings.

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How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: Restore an iPhone or iPad via iTunes backup

You’ll first need to manually disable Find My iPhone. Then, you can use iTunes to restore from a backup. Follow the steps up to the ‘Set Up iPhone’ screen, then select Restore from iTunes. Connect your iPhone or iPad to your computer. Launch iTunes on your computer. Click on the device icon in the upper left corner of the iTunes window. Click on the device summary from the menu on the left side. Click Restore Backup.  When the option appears, select your device and click Restore. If necessary, enter the password to unlock your iPhone backups (used when encrypting your backups). if you have forgotten the iPhone or iPad passcode or password and your iPhone or iPad is disabled and you want to factory reset iPhone or iPad then follow this article > iPad factory reset without password – How to reset iPad without password

How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: What to do if your iPhone or iPad isn’t backed up

If you have just erased, wiped or Restored your iPhone or iPad to it’s factory settings, and don’t know whether you made a backup of your iPhone or iPad data, then you can follow the below steps to find out,  if there is any iPhone backup stored in your iCloud or iTunes. Note: icloud gives you 5GB of free space to store your iPhone data as a backup. In case you icloud backup is not enabled on your iPhone or iPad, just follow the above steps to enable iCloud backup on iTunes.

To find out if iPhone data is backed up in iCloud: Here’s how to find your iCloud backups on your iOS device, Mac, or PC:

1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings. Scroll down and tap iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage.
2. On your Mac, go to Apple menu > System Preferences, then click iCloud.
3. On your PC, open iCloud for Windows and click Storage.

To check when your iPhone last backed up, go to Settings > iCloud > Backup and look at the date and time of the last back up.

Find iPhone or iPad backups on your Mac: Open iTunes. Click iTunes in the menu bar, then choose Preferences. Click Devices. Control-click the backup that you want, then choose Show in Finder.

How to delete reset iPhone or iPad: Can anyone Restore iPhone data from a Erased or wiped iPhone or iPad?

If this is the question you are asking about Can you retrieve data after factory reset iPhone? then i would say no, certainly not possible (sounds impossible). So, make sure that you have tried all other options before resetting your iPhone or iPad device. But if you have a iTunes backup of your iOS device, then you can restore your iPhone device from that backup, even if you have erased or formatted your iPhone to factory resetting.

So, if you don’t have a iTunes or iCloud backup and you have forgotten your iPhone or iPad passcode, then you have no other choice to Put your iPhone device in to recovery mode and reset all its data and iPhone to factory settings. The data on an iOS device is automatically encrypted, and wiping the device destroys the encryption key, making it more or less impossible to get anything back when it’s been fully erased and reset without access to a backup.

You can always talk to apple customer support or an Apple Genius bar expert, and follow up the advice, if there’s any.