Ultimate guide: 3 ways to turn on phone on recovery mode

If your iPhone blacks out or is discharging in a loop, iphone recovery mode is the savior. In this blog, we have covered 3 ways to put your iphone on recovery mode. 

But before we start, let us know what recovery mode is and when you can use it. 

What is iPhone recovery mode?

Recovery mode is a feature of the iPhone that updates and erases all the memory of the iPhone.  This feature activates on the iphone by using the side button attached to the exterior body of the iPhone. 

The feature helps you to manage all sudden software glitches of the phone; by turning on the recovery mode, the phone is reset to its original state through clearing the memory of the phone. 

When to use iphone recovery mode? 

The iPhone is one of the best phones available today, but it also requires a recovery mode for debugging, though it is an all-in-one solution for all software bugs, but for some bugs you should activate it without a second thought. These bugs are listed down below:-

Battery drainging and looping battery discharge Shortening of memory space Software lagging after updates. These bugs require you to urgently use recovery mode being the only resort to restore your phone back to normal. 

3 Ways to turn on iphone recovery mode

Software bugs keep happening with every new update in the iPhone, there are 3 ways to put your iphone on the recovery mode, each depending on the model of the iphone you are carrying. 

There are 3 ways to activate recovery mode by using a combination of exterior buttons, each way uses a different set of combinations to activate the recovery mode. You can use these combinations to activate this mode by yourself. These 3 combinations to turn on the recovery mode is listed below:- 

Power button + volume up and down button 

Side button with both the volume buttons is the method used on iPhone 8 to iPhone 12. 

To use this method firstly, connect a Mac PC lightning cable to your iPhone, then long press the side button, and finally turn on the recovery mode of your iPhone by pressing volume up and volume down button turn by turn while simultaneously pressing the side button. 

This will black out the screen, wait till you see the restore icon on your phone screen, finally go to itunes and restore your data. 

Power+ volume down button 

Side and volume down is a method to switch on recovery mode in iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Pro.

Whenever you encounter a software glitch or software bugging, immediately long press the power button and Simultaneously press volume down button, to enable the recovery mode on your iPhone 7. 

The screen will black out for a while, don’t panic and hang in there until you see the restore icon on your screen; finally, go to itunes to restore your data.

Power button + home button 

Power button + home button is a command to turn on recovery mode on iPhone 1 to iPhone 6.

To give this command to your phone, long press the power button and press the home button and wait till the restore screen appears on your screen. Now, you have successfully turned on the recovery mode, finally go to itunes and restore your data. 

Third party apps for recovery mode 

If the method can not be applied due to phone damage or difficulty, you can try third-party applications to turn on recovery mode; apps like disk drill, eraseUS and one click etc are some examples of the third party apps to turn on the recovery mode. You can also use the website version of these third-party apps to turn on recovery mode.

Conclusion 

Recovery mode is a feature of the iphone, which erases and restarts the phone. It comes handy in curing the software bugs of the phone. 

There are three ways you can turn it on, by using a combination of power, volume and Home button attached to the body of an iphone, these combinations can be used and operated as per the model of your phone.

In case, you can not apply this method you can try a third party application.