Comments on: QuickTip – Hard Restarting your iPhone or iPod Touch

By: mattyb123

mattyb123 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:38:30 +0000

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.

By: Wolfmore

Wolfmore — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:31:05 +0000

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

By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:18:04 +0000

my old ipod’s lock button was broken.

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

……. and restart.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:39:55 +0000

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!

By: Stevey101

Stevey101 — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:10:32 +0000

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.

By: Anthony C.

Anthony C. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:38:53 +0000

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”

By: Yablonsky

Yablonsky — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:33:17 +0000

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

Thanks for the tip