
If you have an iPhone 6s or older, press and hold the Power button for three seconds, then swipe the "Power off" slider to the right.Finally, press and hold the Volume Down until you see the "connect to iTunes" screen. If you have an iPhone 7, press and hold the Power button for three seconds, then swipe the "Power off" slider to the right.If you have an iPhone 8 or later, press the Volume Up button, followed by Volume Down, then press and hold the Power button until you see the "connect to iTunes" screen.Depending on which model iPhone, you'll need to do one of these two things: On your computer, start iTunes and connect your iPhone using a USB cable.Ģ. See our article, " How to backup your iPhone to iCloud, your computer, or an external hard drive ," to make sure your iPhone is regularly creating a backup.ġ. It's worth pointing out that this is one reason you should always have a current backup.

Instead, you need to reset the iPhone to its factory settings and then restore your apps and data from a backup.


A disabled iPhone will warn you that you can't log in for some period of time, which might be anywhere from a minute to forever.
