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How to do a soft reset on iPhone 7

iBright

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Is it something I'm missing? I noticed that when I press power button and home button together for long time nothing happens like it did on the previous devices. Did apple change this? Or is there a new setting I have to do with the home button before that would work?
 

Rob Phillips

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Hold down the power button and volume down button simultaneously until you see the Apple boot logo.

The iPhone 7/7 Plus don’t have mechanical home buttons.
 

iBright

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Hold down the power button and volume down button simultaneously until you see the Apple boot logo.

The iPhone 7/7 Plus don’t have mechanical home buttons.

Thanks. Never thought about that and was even lazy to even google it as well. Thanks for having this family. Haha yeah I got it now.
 

Rob Phillips

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Thanks. Never thought about that and was even lazy to even google it as well. Thanks for having this family. Haha yeah I got it now.

It’s no problem! Happy to help. It originally took me a minute to figure it out too.
 

metalchick719

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You do it the same way you do it on a Windows Phone - hold down the sleep/wake and volume down buttons until you see the logo reappear. :)
 

Ledsteplin

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Thanks. Never thought about that and was even lazy to even google it as well. Thanks for having this family. Haha yeah I got it now.

And that's actually a hard reset. A soft reset is simply the slide to power off.
 

Rob Phillips

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Does it really matter whether it’s a hard reset or a soft reset? I’m pretty sure everyone knows what OP is talking about.