Hi guys, my name is David from Payette Forward.
And I'm David from Payette Forward.
And in this video, we're going to show you how to put your iPhone into DFU mode and then
do a DFU restore.
Yup! A DFU restore is the deepest type of restore that you can do with an iPhone, and
it's sort of the last resort for any Apple tech when there's some software problem that
they can't solve.
If you think there's a hardware problem with your iPhone, it's a good idea to DFU restore
it first.
Other people watching this video are probably trying to jailbreak their phones, which is
totally fine.
No judgment, or maybe they just want to put a different versionof iOS on.
Anyway, we're gonna cover everything for a DFU Restore and let's get right to it.
Okay.
Now we do recommend that you back up your iPhone first.
Yep, and we'll have a video on how to back up your iPhone in the description of this
video, right?
So, this is an iPhone 7.
Um, it's blank right now.
There's nothing on it, but I have an iCloud backup that I'm going to put on a little bit
later.
What you need to know about DFU restores is that the process is a little bit different
for iPhone 6s and below and iPhone 7 and above.
So for iPhone 6s and below, we're talking about two buttons with the DFU restore.
On 6s and Below, we're talking about the power button and the home button.
With iPhone 7 and above, we're going to be using the power button and the volume down
button.
That's just because with the iPhone 7, they created a new home button that isn't a physical
button.
So they needed something that they could actually click and place the phone is off.
Um, so let's get to it iPhone 7 DFU restore.
The first thing you need to do is to plug in your iPhone to a computer.
You can't put your iPhone into DFU mode unless it's plugged into iTunes.
So plugging it in plug it into this Mac now.
I've never hooked up this iPhone and synced it with this iTunes library before and that's
totally okay.
It's okay to use a friend's back to do this or anything else.
We're just using the Mac right now as a tool to restore the iPhone.
So let's say you're having a problem with your computer.
It's all good.
So iTunes is now open on this Mac and I'm going to put this into DFU mode the good thing
about DFU mode is that you can basically put an iPhone into DFU mode and ignore everything
else that's going on.
So even if your eye, Is off of the screens off or maybe the screens broken, you don't
know if it's broken and sometimes you can put it iPhone into DFU mode even if it seems
like it's completely dead.
Definitely something worth trying before you go to the Apple Store for repair because the
tech will just do it there.
So how do you put an iPhone into DFU mode?
There's eight seconds we have to worry about.
If you're an Apple tech, what they tell you is for the first five seconds, hold the
power button and the volume down button together. Then let go of the power button and keep
holding the volume down button.
Similarly, iPhone 6s below the first five seconds hold the power button and the home button
down together, and then let go of the power button and keep holding the home button.
Anyway, it's easy when you see it.
Well, let's show them! Alright, so power button, volume down button on iPhone 7. Hold them down
together until the screen goes black — about five seconds — and then just let go of the power
power button and keep holding this volume down button until on your Mac, something shows up on the
screen that says iTunes has detected an Phone in recovery mode. You must restore the iPhone
before it can be used with iTunes. Success!
Awesome.
Now if you see anything on your iPhone screen, if you see I like a little connect to iTunes
icon, you're not in DFU mode.
So the only way you're in DFU mode is if it shows up in iTunes, it says it detects an
iPhone and your screen is completely black.
There are no exceptions to this rule.
So, um, okay, let's click.
Ok.
Now all you can really do here is eject the phone if we don't want to do or restore the
iPhone, which is exactly what we want to do I do so there's a couple of things to be aware
of here.
The first one is if you just click this button normally and this is probably what everybody's
going to want to do or most people let's say having a problem with your iPhone just click
this button what's going to happen is iTunes will ask you are you sure you want to restore
this phone to its factory settings?
Everything will be erased and then the newest version of the iPhone software will be installed
iTunes.
So what iTunes does is it goes to Apple servers and it downloads the most recent version of
the iPhone operating system for you.
Can take like 10 20 minutes depending on your internet connection and then it'll be good.
If you restore your phone another 10-15 minutes, depending on your phone, there's another option
here.
So most people should just click restore an update it now our case is a little bit different
and if you're jailbreaking your phone or doing something nefarious or if you're like us and
we're running a beta of iOS 11 at this point.
We need to do it a little bit differently.
So instead of having iTunes, uh, go ahead and download the restore file by itself from
the Apple servers.
We're going to choose a file that we already downloaded to restore from and we'll link
to the website where you can download these iOS versions description.
Yep.
And so, the way to do that — and there's a little trick for Mac — a little trick
for PC on a Mac you hold the option key on a PC you hold the Shift key, and while you're
doing that, click on "Restore iPhone..." And instead of popping up with the iTunes little box that
asks if you want to restore it their way,
you're going to get this little pop-up and just choose the software.
So I've downloaded this iPhone 7 beta of iOS 11, which I'm going to put on my iPhone.
I'm just going to open it now.
Now iTunes is going to say OK.
Here's what we're going to do.
We're gonna do it.
Yep. Hit restore. Bang! That is not what we thought would happen.
Well, yeah.
So what happened right there? Something went wrong — clearly.
So my iPhone kicked out of recovery mode — kicked out of DFU mode for whatever reason. Maybe
we took too long, maybe the computer, you know, whatever.
Let's put it back into DFU mode.
So even though it's not fully turned on yet,
I can just do this.
This is a good teachable moment. Right.
Wait, wait until the screen turns off... 3 seconds.
One... Well, the screen has to be all the way off.
I'm holding the home button.
Let's put this into DFU mode. If this was an iPhone 6S, that would have totally worked.
Let's do an iPhone 7! Right. Screen's off. Three seconds: two... one...
Let go of the power button. Keep holding the volume down button.
iPhone goes into DFU mode.
OK. Nice!
Alright, restore iPhone: I'm gonna hold the option key and click on that to select the file, and hit restore.
And now we play the waiting game.
We do indeed! We'll fast forward through these loading bars...
So after iTunes does its thing for a little while and it starts the restore process, what
you're going to see is the Apple logo appear on the screen with a little status bar progress
bar in the bottom that's going to very, very slowly work its way across the screen. Now,
don't get your hopes up when this finishes because you got another status bar coming.
Yeah! Another one right behind it, but it's a lot faster than the first status bar.
So we're going to go back into our time warp.
Yep.
Cause this is...
So we're done with the first progress bar.
Got the Apple logo on the screen.
Excellent.
You think it's gonna turn back and you're done, but you're not done.
There's another progress bar.
Be patient.
Yep.
You're almost there! Almost there. 25th mile of the marathon.
Welcome to your new iPhone it says! So our DFU restore process is finished. Now, a
lot of people ask, you know, I want to restore it from my iCloud backup or I have
activation lock turned on. Do I have to use my computer to do any of that stuff? And the
answer is no! At the Apple Store, when people would have their phones DFU restored, our
goal — one of our goals — was to get people out the door as fast as possible.
So in addition to providing great customer service at every turn, we did hand people their
phones back, and pull them right out of our computers that we used to restore iPhones.
So it's done, computer out of the way — and this is also especially helpful if you used your
friend's computer to DFU restore your iPhone because your computer stinks.
Yeah.
This is helpful to do. So iTunes is just a tool here. It has nothing to do with the
music library.
We're just using it as a tool. So the DFU restore is complete! DFU, done! So he's going
to set his iPhone up.
I'm going to say thank you guys for watching this video.
Feel free to leave us a comment down below
if you have any other questions. We know the DFU restore process can be a bit complicated
and errors do happen along the way.
So feel free to leave anything in the comments.
Yes.
Stick with it!
You can get into DFU mode.
You can do it! And make sure to visit payetteforward.com for the best iPhone help online. Once
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Thank you guys for watching.