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Today I was working around in Safari on my iPhone and it just locked up. I couldn’t get the home button to respond. I couldn’t hold down the Sleep/Wake button to get the “Power Off” prompt… Nothing… I did some searching and found this article which enlightened me on two different features I didn’t know about. I’ll share them here.
Obviously, we’ve already covered that if you hold down the Sleep/Wake button (this button also silences incoming calls when you don’t want to deny the call but just want it to quit ringing aloud) on your phone for a few seconds, you’ll be prompted to move a slider to power off your phone. To power the phone back up again, press the same Sleep/Wake button.
The next tip that the article told me about was this. If you have an application lock up on you, where your iPhone seems frozen, you can hold down the Home button (the round button at the bottom of the phone with the white rounded square in it) for six seconds and it will terminate the frozen app and return you to the iPhone’s Home screen. I did not know what…
And, the last trick this article told me was how to do a hard reboot of the phone. Basically, you just hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button simultaneously for a few seconds and the iPhone will power off. This is what saved me in my situation earlier. Again, to power your phone back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
I hope this helps someone out there. I take no credit for determining these tricks on my own. reference the article I mentioned in the first paragraph for my source.
Until next time…
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