It happens. You’re surfing the web, maybe checking out your networks that are social, and bam – it’s stuck. The iPhone screen is no longer responding and you’re stuck staring at gif shared on Twitter that is now stuck on a frame that somehow makes it lose it’s hilarity. You swipe left, right, then up, down – nothing. You begin pushing the home button to no avail and finally start pushing the power button in an effort to reset the now useless iPhone and try and pretend nothing ever happened. But what if that even fails, what do you do then?
The answer is what we call a “soft reset”. There are two different kinds of resets in the mobile world: soft and hard. A hard reset is what you do when you need to not only restart the phone without being able to use the screen, but – because of its severely screwed up demeanor – you have to wipe everything off of it for it to work properly again. Here’s a video example of a that on a Nokia, if you’re interested. Continue reading →