Sleep/Wake Button

If you have ever owned an Apple device, especially an iPhone or iPad, you probably know that it can be tricky to reset your iPhone or iPad. Knowing how to reset your smartphone or tablet can save you from a trip to the Apple store! This article will help you learn how to reset your iPhone; it will also show you how to reboot your iPad. For more iPad tips and tricks, check out our iPad multitasking guide.

How to Clear RAM on iPhone

1. Hold down the Sleep/Wake button.
2. When Slide to Power off appears, let go of the Sleep/Wake Button.
3. Hold down your Home button.

After a few seconds, you screen will flash blank and then return to Home screen, which means you’ve cleared your iPhone’s RAM. Some user’s have had trouble with this and I’m not sure why. If Siri comes up when you hold down the Home button, one user suggested turning Siri off to clear RAM and then turning Siri back on when you’re done. For most, this should go smoothly and be easy to do. If your iPhone has been particularly sluggish, you’ll feel how much faster your iPhone is instantly.

On previous models of iPhone, you could force restart your iPhone (known as a hard restart) by holding the Home button and your Sleep/Wake button at the same time. However, the iPhone 7 Home button isn’t really a button at all. It uses Haptic feedback to create the feeling of pressing a button. Perhaps this caused an issue with using the Home button as a means to restart the device. The iPhone 7 or 7 Plus requires you hard restart your iPhone with different buttons this time around. Here’s how to force restart your iPhone 7 or 7 Plus.