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2

Time Required

                          20 seconds

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  • How to Force Restart iPhone X
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Introduction

Step 1

              How to Force Restart iPhone X
  • Quickly press and release the volume-up button (1).
  • Quickly press and release the volume-down button (2).

Quickly press and release the volume-up button (1).

Quickly press and release the volume-down button (2).

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Step 2

  • Finally, press and hold the side button (3) until the Apple logo appears, and then release.
  • The screen will temporarily go dark as the iPhone shuts down and reboots. Keep holding the button until you see the  logo.

Finally, press and hold the side button (3) until the Apple logo appears, and then release.

The screen will temporarily go dark as the iPhone shuts down and reboots. Keep holding the button until you see the  logo.

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Satit Jan - Nov 26, 2018

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You saved my day. My iphoneX did not respond to anything after connect with the itune. I tried to shut down by holding volume up/down + side button but it didn’t work. So I tried your method and it worked!!! Thank you so much

Siraj Munir - Feb 27, 2019

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This is a temporary solution whenever my iphone gets unresponsive i used this method but after some time it again starts doing same laggy and unresponsive behaviour

MelissaR - Aug 1, 2019

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good share. thanks.

sa sas - Sep 20, 2019

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What is the other way?

TR0xuu - Oct 19, 2019

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will it delete all data from my iPhone?