iPhones are designed to turn on automatically when they're connected to a power source and
have enough battery life to turn on. When your iPhone dies and you plug it into charge,
it should turn back on in about 10 minutes depending on the charger you use. But if your
iPhone isn't turning on again, the first thing you need to try is a hard reset while connected
to the power source. But my phone isn't turning on, how can I hard reset it? David just trust me,
we'll get to that in a minute. A hard reset forces your iPhone to abruptly turn off and back on. On
an iPhone 8 and newer, quickly press and release the Volume Up button, then the Volume Down button,
then press and hold the Side button. Keep holding until the screen goes black and the Apple logo
appears on the screen. Well, presumably the screen is black because the phone won't turn on,
so you have to keep holding for 30 seconds. All right, don't give up too soon. That's when
people would go to the Apple Store and I fix their phone in 30 seconds. Yeah, my Apple logo is here.
If you have an iPhone 7, it's the Volume Down button and the Side button. iPhone 6s and older,
it's the Home button and the Power button. Again, hold down the buttons way longer than
than you think you should have to. Hopefully this fixed the problem for you and if it did,
please give us a thumbs up on your way out. It helps us reach more people and fix more iPhones.
A hard reset can fix this problem when the software is crashed on your iPhone making
the display appear black, a purely your iPhone is off but really it's been on the whole time.
Even if a hard reset did work for you, you might want to stick around until the end of the video
because we haven't fixed the underlying reason that caused your iPhone to crash in the first
place. We'll show you how to fix the problem for good later in this video. But if the Apple logo
didn't appear on the screen and the hard reset didn't fix your phone, don't give up. It's time to
move on to the next step and that next step is to try a different charger. Chargers have different
wattages and amperages. Generally speaking, the more watts, the higher the amperage, the
faster your iPhone will charge. When you charge your iPhone, the cable is like the garden hose,
the wattage is the water pressure, the amperage is the width of the hose or how much you can charge
it at once. 18 Watt and higher Chargers allow for fast charging on the iPhone 8 to the iPhone
11 Pro. If you have an iPhone 12 Pro or newer, you need a 20 watt charger to fast charge your iPhone,
that's up to 50 in 30 minutes. On the flip side, car chargers and the USB ports
you find on laptops generally are pretty low amperages and they charge your phone slowly.
If you're using a wall charger, try plugging it into a different outlet. If you're using a USB
port on your computer, try a different USB port and if you are using your computer, make sure
you plug in your computer too because sometimes laptops shut off the USB charging to save their
own battery power. It's also a good idea to try a wireless charger or a MagSafe charger. Even
if your iPhone doesn't support MagSafe, it'll still wirelessly charge on a MagSafe charger.
Another caveat is that if you plug in your iPhone to a charger and you hear any sound,
your iPhone is actually on and there's a problem with your display, so you need to fix that.
If your iPhone charges wirelessly fine but it's not working with cables, there's probably an issue
with your cable, your charger or the charging port on your iPhone. Just like with chargers,
try a different charging cable. If your iPhone won't charge, maybe it's a cheap cable, maybe it's
frayed, maybe it isn't MFi certified. MFi stands for Made for iPhone. These are cables that have
been certified to work with Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad. Sometimes they go to the local
gas station and I see lightning cables for five dollars. Those are not MFi certified and the way
you know is that it won't have the little Made for iPhone logo on the side. Sometimes there's
a little sheath on the end of a charging cable that needs to be pushed back so that the cable
can go all the way into the charging port on your iPhone. After trying different charging cables,
try cleaning out your iPhone's charging port. This is an extremely important step that some
other YouTube tutorials on this problem don't even address and it's one of my favorite steps
we ever talk about. Even if your charger and charging cable are working perfectly,
they might not be able to make a clean connection with your iPhone if the charging port is filled
with lint or dirt or some other debris. Grab an unused toothbrush or an anti-static brush
and brush out the bottom of your iPhone to get out any debris that's stuck in there. You
feel free to be very aggressive because it could be a little bit compacted in there and see what
comes out. We got a little look at that there, yeah we've got some specs. Don't use anything
metal because that can damage the charging port and then you've got a whole other problem.
Once your charging port is clean, try charging your iPhone again to see if that has fixed the
problem. That wouldn't hurt to do another hard reset after about 10 to 15 minutes too. The
next thing we could do to completely rule out a software problem here is to do a DFU restore,
which is the deepest type of restore you can do on an iPhone. But the first step to that is
to put your iPhone into DFU mode. If your iPhone won't turn on, there still is a chance you can put
it into DFU mode because it could just be this really bad software problem that's causing the
issue. I saw phones at the Apple Store where DFU mode would still work. We do have to warn you that
a DFU restore erases and reloads every single line of code on your iPhone, meaning you will lose all
of your data if it's not backed up. But hopefully it is on iCloud or iTunes on your computer. You
can always try plugging your iPhone into iTunes on your computer, but we already tried that and if it
didn't work, it's not going to work now. The only way to know if this will work is to try it out.
If you have a Mac running Mac OS 10.15 or newer, you'll use Finder. If you're using a PC or any Mac
running 10.14 or older, you will use iTunes. It doesn't matter if it's your Mac or PC or somebody
else's. In this case, we're not syncing any data, we're just using a computer to DFU restore
this iPhone. My Mac is running Ventura, so I've opened Finder. I'm going to look for my iPhone
underneath locations, there it is. If you see your iPhone show up on your Mac but it's not charging,
well it is charging, it is on, you just probably have a problem with your screen
and you should back it up right now. If you're using iTunes, look for the phone icon near the
upper left-hand corner of the screen. But since you're watching this video, it's likely you aren't
seeing your iPhone in iTunes or in Finder on a Mac, so we are going to try to put it into
DFU mode. The process starts off just like a hard reset, right? So if you go Volume Up,
Volume Down and then press and hold the Side button for 10 seconds, get yourself a timer.
Then after 10 seconds, we're going to keep holding the Side button and press and hold the Volume Down
button along with that for five seconds. And then after five seconds, we're going to release
the Side button and just keep holding the Volume Down button until your iPhone shows up in iTunes
or in Finder. If your iPhone makes it into DFU mode, just follow the instructions on the screen.
You can also exit DFU mode anytime by performing a hard reset: Volume Up, Volume Down, press and hold
the Side and just keep going. Just keep holding, don't give up. It's going to take a while.
My phone is gonna be so confused after this, no idea what to do. You see it
disappear from David's computer and the Apple logo is now on the screen again.
If you're still here, your iPhone won't turn on and you can't put into DFU mode, it's time to
talk about repair options. It could be a whole bunch of different things like a bad battery,
a faulty charging port, maybe you smashed it or dropped it or ran over it with your car,
there's something wrong, you probably need professional help. If you recently got your phone
fixed at a third-party repair store and right when you got home this problem started happening,
consider going back to there and yelling at them and say, "Hey, you uh screwed up my phone."
But to keep things simple, especially if your phone is under warranty, go to an Apple Store,
make a Genius Bar appointment first before you go in so you don't have to stand around and
wait. Apple also offers phone support and mail-in repair. The mail-in program is extremely fast,
like 24 hours fast. We probably shouldn't make any promises on their behalf, but why not? Why
not? They'll get it back to you in 24 hours. Just tell them Payette Forward sent ya! Yeah,
perfect. They'll say, who's that? There's a lot of misinformation out there when it comes
to charging iPhones. Check out our next video where we debunk a whole bunch of charging myths!