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Well restarting a device will always shut it all the was down so I'm not sure what you mean. Can you elaborate?
Gotcha.Most probably a reboot, instead of powering it down then up again.
Gotcha.
If that's the case, press & hold the power & volume down buttons at the same time until the Apple logo appears.
But this is shutting the phone down...?

But this is shutting the phone down...?
But this is shutting the phone down...?
Sorta-ish. I don't think it totally shuts it down, like on a computer. It's a process it has to do to restart (re start, it has to be off in order to start).
It doesn't really matter, anyway![]()
It's a hard "restart". But technically it is and it isn't LOL.
When I do that I don't get apple logo
When I do that I don't get apple logo
What does?
Restarting phone without hard booting. I believe it's called soft booting
7 plus
