Recovery mode allows you to update or restore your iPhone using a computer with iTunes or Finder. Here's how to access it.

DFU mode can help you recover your iPhone or iPad using a computer.

You have a perfectly functioning iPhone and you plug it via USB to a Mac. When you switch to iTunes, you see the message: iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone “phone name”. Go to the Summary ...

When an iPod enters recovery mode, it needs to be connected to iTunes and reset. As a business owner, you probably need your iPod to store important audio, music and other media for presentations and ...

We previously noted that a number of readers have reported that their iPhones have become non-functional (entering an endless rebooting cycle) after the following process: restoring the iPhone using ...

First off, my touch has never been jailbroken. The firmware is IOS 4.1. I was just using my touch, the battery died. I hooked it up to my pc and at first it was not recognized, then it came up and I ...

Reader Cat Sorenson finds herself with an iPod that won’t update. She writes: I’ve been trying to update my iPod touch to iOS 6 and it’s not working. I plugged it into my Mac, chose to update it in ...

Upon restoring iPhones and iPod touches, some users have experienced a problem where the device will not startup past the Apple logo. Apple Discussions poster Solivern writes: "Hi all, I was trying to ...

Are you an iTunes user? If so, by now you may be looking at iTunes 11, which Apple started rolling out yesterday. (Still running iTunes 10? You can get the update by clicking Help, Check for Updates.) ...

With the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, Apple has changed the way that you carry out a forced restart, enter recovery mode, and enter DFU mode. On the iPhone 7 you pressed the volume down button at the ...

2 days of fighting iTunes 7 trying to sync my iPod, which it claimed was in recovery mode no matter how many times it 'Factory Restored' it came down to a account permissions problem.<BR><BR>When I ...