How to Enter & Exit iPhone Recovery Mode

Enter & Exit iPhone Recovery Mode

By Selena KomezUpdated on November 20, 2017

Many iOS users do not know what is the difference of the iPhone recovery mode and DFU mode, here I’m going to introduce the details to you all on the following passages.

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What is Recovery Mode
Recovery mode allows iTunes to restores your iPhone to its original factory settings but with the latest iOS and firmware.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 DFU Mode
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.

What is the Difference of iPhone Recovery Mode and DFU mode
The biggest difference of iPhone recovery mode and DFU mode is that whether or not to start the iBoot.In iPhone recovery mode,the system uses iBoot to restore and upgrade the firmware,while in the DFU mode,the system will not start iBoot,so you can downgrade the firmware in DFU mode.iBoot is on IOS devices boot loader,when you in recovery mode for system recovery or upgrade,iBoot will lead you to upgrade the firmware version detection to ensure you want to upgrade the firmware version than the current system firmware version(to the new version number higher).If you want to upgrade the firmware version is less than the current installed version of the system,then iBoot will prohibit the recovery of the firmware.

So the degradation of the firmware must be switched to DFU mode. This also means that if you need to restore the current firmware version,only need to enter device to the recovery mode, iTunes will over the next restoration work; if you need the firmware downgrade, you need to enter DFU mode on device.For example, in the absence of access to the DFU mode, you can not downgrade your firmware from 7.04 to 7.02, of course, apple now officially released a new firmware, the firmware will soon be closed to verify. Of course, the firmware is closed to verify what way the firmware is not activated, DFU is not.

What You Should Do before Entering iPhone to Recovery/DFU Mode
Charge your device to 100% and last for a few minutes,which can help to solve the problem of partial power display error.

Part 1:How to Enter iPhone Recovery Mode

When your iOS device fail to reset,stuck during/after upgrading,software error,stuck at white screen,can not open the device, forget the password of device,stuck on the cycle loop issues,etc,. you should enter device to recovery mode.

Step 1.Turn Off your iPhone/iPad/iPod if it isn’t off already.Press and hold down the On/Off button on the right side (iPhone 6 or later) or top (all other iPhone/iPad/iPod) for 3 seconds.

Step 2.Swipe the slide to power off confirmation slider to the right.

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Step 3.Press and hold down the Home button on your device.

Step 4.Plug your device into your Mac or Windows PC and make sure iTunes is running.

Step 5.Release the Home button when you see the Connect to iTunes screen.

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At this moment iTunes should display an alert saying it’s detected an iPhone/iPad/iPod in recovery mode,and will allow you to restore your device.

Part 2:How to Exit iPhone Recovery Mode and Restore iPhone to Normal

However,you may encounter the especial circumstance,for example your device stuck in recovery mode and can’t get it out of this mode.Over the years we’ve had a few customers contact us asking how to fix iPhone stuck in recovery mode.As it appears to be a common problem (even among some of us here in the office), we thought we’d share the best solution of how to solve an iPhone stuck in recovery mode issue.

What You Can Do When Your iPhone is Stuck In Recovery Mode
DO NOT do anything if your iPhone goes into Recovery Mode.The official way to exit Recovery Mode is to restore your iPhone with iTunes.However,sometimes you may fail to get iPhone out of recovery mode with iTunes,or you just wanna another better method to fix it.

Note:Trying to fix iPhone stuck in recovery mode in the common way may lead to data loss.Remind you doing this especially after backing up your iPhone regularly because restoring your iPhone will wipe all data and content on device.Tips:How to backup iPhone data to computer.

Here is our strongly recommendation-iOS System Recovery.iOS System Recovery can perfectly solve this program completely,enable to get iPhone out of recovery mode without losing data,get iPhone out of DFU mode without losing data and restore iPhone system to normal status as usual.It gains highly assessment from iOS users widely.While there is guarantee that definitely help to excellently fix iPhone system stuck issues after the restoring process.What’s more,this program provide an available way to recover deleted data from iPhone/iPad/iPod as well.

Step 1.Run Program and Connect iPhone to Computer
Run iOS System Recovery on computer and connect your iPhone to the computer with an USB cable.Select the “iOS System Recovery” from “More Tools” on program,and then click “Start” to begin the process.(The restoring errors happen mostly because the operating system on your iPhone performs abnormally.)

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Step 2.Download the Firmware for iPhone Restoring
You’ll see that the program detects your iPhone,confirm it and “Download” the firmware for your device.

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