QuickTip – Hard Restarting your iPhone or iPod Touch

7 Responses to “QuickTip – Hard Restarting your iPhone or iPod Touch”

1. Yablonsky on April 24th, 2009 9:33 am:
   

   I’ve had to do this once in a while….very useful….but learned this from jailbreaking days…
   

   Thanks for the tip

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2. Anthony C. on April 24th, 2009 10:38 am:
   

   Well from what I know that method will make your whole device restart, which is a little bit time consuming.

   If the application that you are working on freezes and you want to terminate just that application without having to restart your device, then keep the “home” button pressed for about 10-15 seonds. When you release the botton the app will shut down.

   It’s the equivalent of “force quit” or “end task”

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   Brooke on April 24th, 2009 1:39 pm:

   Yep that works too unless you are really locked up…which happens to me a lot because I test a lot of apps…then the only thing that works is this hard restart!
3. Stevey101 on April 24th, 2009 12:10 pm:
   

   Very handy tip. Another way is to just hold down the home button for around 10 seconds (I think) and that will sometimes quit locked up app.

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4. Blake on April 24th, 2009 3:18 pm:
   

   my old ipod’s lock button was broken.

   so all my ipod did was restart, and restart, and restart……

   ……. and restart.

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5. Wolfmore on April 24th, 2009 4:31 pm:
   

   Yep like @Stevey101 said the holding the home button works also. I always try that first.

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6. mattyb123 on April 25th, 2009 11:38 am:
   

   When TTR 2 froze when I tried to play a song on extreme I tried holding the home button, nothing. Tried holding both buttons and it restarted but thats all it kept doing. Ended up restoring, so now I don’t play songs over medium incase this happens.

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