Umm duh everyone knows that, and no I didn't take 10-20 screenshots before I knew the new way to do it. Whoever told you that is a liar! lol
Seriously though, my wife had her 7+ first while I was waiting for mine to be delivered. Something was acting up and she asked me how to do the hard reset and I was just like "Hold home and power buttons until it shuts off" and left her at that. She text me like 30 minutes later telling me it never worked but her phone was okay now. Fast forward to me getting mine, something was off, tried hard reset, 20 screenshots later I decided to google it. Went back and looked at her phone once I knew the proper way and she had about 100 SS's. lol