How to Force Restart, Enter DFU, Recovery Mode on iPhone 11/11 Pro

Apple's newest range of smartphones, the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone Pro Max, share the same overall design of last year's iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max. As such, the physical buttons have inherited the same range of functions, including powering on and off, forcing a restart, entering DFU mode, entering recovery mode, activating Emergency SOS, and temporarily disabling Face ID.

In this video, you'll find step-by-step guides for performing the button combinations of all of the above functions, along with explanations of what the more obscure ones do and why they might one day come in useful.

[OptimuzGryme]

Force rebooted my iPhone 11 pro max about 15 times and thought I was screwed, but this video saved me a trip to apple/t-mobile during the shutdown. Thanks so much for the video!! Entering into DFU mode fixed my problem! I did lose all my pics/vids since my iCloud was full, but I'm so thankful to have my phone back! THANKS AGAIN!

[lyliavix]

4 years later but you are the only one who saved my iPhone 13 from being frozen 3 days not responding to anything else and even calling emergency services by default... waiting for a severe telling off for wasting their time but hey it wasn't me 😂 THANK YOU SO MUCH from the UK

[MlabaB]

You’re the best. Upgraded to IOS 14.5 and was having my iPhone 11 not responding

[mariebeth]

My iPhone screen suddenly got freeze but I have another iPhone to browse how to unlock and I found this! IT WORKS!! YOU SAFE MY LIFE, THANK YOU 💕

[PATRABHI]

03:55 This is what I was searching for. Who else?

[dshivsagar]

Thanks a lot! I phone 13 was completely stuck and no apps were opening ! Thanks to this force restart! Love you guys!life saver

[GMZIE]

Thnx! I have a jailbroken iphone and sometimes it goes completely black until it dies. The up, down power button worked like a charm! I feel like I knew that, but couldn’t remember to save my life.

[itsrainbowplayz]

THIS GUY IS LITERALLY A LIFE SAVER!!!! I WAS GONNA HAVE A MELTDOWN THAT I CANT OPENMY PHONE! And he saved me thank you so so much

[onlinestudent]

My phone froze and would not let me do anything. Holding the Power and the volume down button made it vibrate but would not show the power down slider. The forced restart fixed it

[milaxxy]

Tysm! Most people probably need this part: 2:53 my phone was so broken

[monaiking]

I was trying to force reboot and called 911 yikes! thank you so much for this video

[fernandoinestroza]

I have been looking all over to figure out how to dfu my iPhone 11 Pro and this is the video that did for me 💪🏽💪🏽

[lailahloyal]

OMGGG THANK YOU SOO MUCH I WAS FRESKINGG OUTT 😭😭

[gamefax]

iPhone, the only modern device I have to YouTube how to force restart...

[fiorellamartinez]

wow my iphone 11 freezes really bad since i downloaded the update and i couldn't click any app or turn off my iphone but you really helped me thank you very much

[missy]

I WAS 2 FUCKING SECONDS AWAY FROM CRYING YOURE A LIFE SAVER MARRY ME PLS

[AnthonyAJLeal]

Bro thank you so much my phone was not turning off and I had to restart it

[misti]

Thanks for the help. iPhone was going crazy & stuck on calling 911.

[you_freakyyma]

out of all videos, this one actual helps 😭😭 i started crying tears of joy

[lovelythomas]

OMG! This video was a Life Saver! Saved me a trip to Apple.. I was ready to sling my phone across the room. Thanks!!!!