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Next, connect your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus to your computer, then open iTunes. Switch off your iPhone by going to Settings General Shut Down, then swipe the slider to the right. Once your iPhone switches off, press and hold the Side button on the right side of your iPhone for 3 seconds. Two Apple experts show you how to enter iPad DFU Mode and restore your iPad in iTunes. A DFU (device firmware update) restore is the deepest type of restore you can perform on an iPad!
With the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and the exclusive iPhone X, Apple has come full circle in transitioning its users away from the home button present since the first iPhone a decade ago. This gives us a window into Apple's design philosophy moving forward, but it also presents some new problems, especially when it comes to entering and exiting DFU mode in iTunes.
Even though the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus still sport home buttons, they are capacitive like the iPhone 7 series and serve no function when they're shut off. As such, booting all these new iPhones up into DFU mode requires a different method than us analog-home button holdouts are used to.
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Device Firmware Upgrade mode — DFU mode, for short — is a handy way of restoring an unresponsive iPhone back to its factory settings. Though rarely used thanks in large part of iOS's stability, the ability to boot up your iPhone into DFU mode is still an important knowledge to have in the event that your device becomes unstable or bricked.
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As far as the hardware button combination required to enter DFU mode on your iPhone 8, 8 Plus, or X, the volume down button has effectively taken over the home button's role in performing this vital function. However, if you're already familiar with putting an iPhone 7 or older into DFU mode, you can't simply do what you've done before by substituting the volume down key for the home button. It's a little more complicated than that now.
Before we proceed, please note that restoring an iOS device via DFU mode will completely wipe it clean, so make sure to back up your iPhone X through iTunes or iCloud if you have important data that you can't live without. You have been warned! You can exit DFU mode fairly easily though, should you need to, if that scares you at all.
DFU mode and recovery mode are the 2 commonly used modes for iPhone, iPad and iPod users. When an iOS device encounters software or app-related trouble, it can usually be resolved by recovery mode and DFU mode. Then what on earth is DFU mode and recovery mode used for? What's the difference between them and how to enter recovery mode/DFU mode separately? This post answers all the above questions. Read on to find more details.
What is DFU mode and recovery mode used for?
DFU mode is short for Device Firmware Update mode. It skips the iBoot bootloader for jailbreak fascinates. When your device is in DFU mode, the device screen will be totally black. DFU mode can be used in different situations including upgrading firmware, downgrading firmware, and even rebooting your tethered jailbroken device.
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Recovery mode allows iTunes to restores your iPhone to its original factory settings but with the latest iOS and firmware. (DFU mode allows you to change and choose the firmware you want to install onto your iPhone.) DFU mode could fix a lot of problems like iDevice stuck in the silver Apple logo, your device gets stuck in a continuous restart loop. When your device is in recovery mode, the iTunes logo and the icon of your USB cable will appear at the same time and iTunes will inform you that an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch in recovery mode has been detected:
What is the main difference between DFU mode and recovery mode?
The main difference between the Recovery mode and DFU mode rests in iBoot. Recovery mode uses iBoot during restoring or upgrading your iPhone while DFU mode bypasses the iBoot so you can downgrade the current firmware because there is no iBoot agent during the DFU mode.
What is iBoot: iBoot is the bootloader on iOS 10/9/8/7 devices. iBoot acts on restore while iPhone is in Recovery Mode. It makes sure that you are flashing a firmware version greater than or equal to a current one. If you are not, iBoot will not allow the restore to proceed.
Firmware downgrading must be done in DFU mode. This means if you need to restore your iPhone to current version simply put the iPhone in recovery mode and iTunes takes care of the rest but if you need to downgrade your current firmware to lower one you need to put your iPhone in DFU mode.
How to get into and out of DFU mode?
For your reference, we summarize the tutorials for you to put iPhone, iPad or iPod in or out of DFU mode. Let's start from steps to enter DFU mode:
- 1. Hold Home and Power button at the same time for 5 seconds.
- 2. Keep holding Home and Power button until the device screen turns to black.
- 3. Release Power button and keep holding Home for 10 seconds.
Follow the steps below to get out of DFU mode:
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- 1. Hold down Home and Power button simultaneously for about 10 seconds.
- 2. Release the home button and continue to hold the power button until the Apple logo screen comes on, signifying that iDevice is rebooting.
How to enter and exit recovery mode?
The steps to enter and exit recovery mode will take iPod touch for an example. Steps for iPhone and iPad are the same.
Enter recovery mode:
- 1. Disconnect the USB cable from your iPod touch, but leave the other side connected to your Mac or PC. Then launch iTunes
- 2. Turn off iPod touch by pressing Home and Sleep/Power button on the top of the iPod touch
- 3. Continue to hold the Home button while you reconnect the USB cable to your iPod touch, this will cause the iPod touch to turn on
- 4. Continue to hold the Home button until a pop-up windows will appear in iTunes informing you that an iPod touch in recovery mode has been detected:
Exit recovery mode:
- 1. Hold down the home and power button for about 15 seconds, this shuts off the iPod touch
- 2. Press the power button to boot the iPod touch
Or you could choose another way to enter and exit recovery mode which requires only one click, rather than learning 4 steps as above. No kidding. The free utility Tenorshare ReiBoot or Tenorshare ReiBoot (Mac) is all that you need.
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