“Why does my iPhone keeps restarting and how to fix it?” is a more common question on forums and blogs than you can imagine, even though Apple is struggling to come out with more and more stable and flawless operating systems for their iPhone and iPad devices.
A boot loop on the iPhone is one of the most frustrating issues that can occur to you, and, unfortunately, it is a common issue the users of Apple devices are confronting with. However, there are some solutions to this problem, and some of them are quite straightforward, so you don’t have to be tech-savvy to apply them.
Why does my iPhone keeps restarting?
There could be a whole bunch of reasons for why your iPhone got stuck in a boot loop. However, there some factors which are quite common, and among them, there are a faulty update, malware, hardware issues, unstable driver, and many more.
But, the most common issues that force your iPhone to enter in a boot loop are a bad update, an unstable driver, and a potential malware attack. As for the other one, the hardware issues, the situation it’s much more complicated and you might need to go to an Apple Store to get that done (if you’re lucky, a Power Button replacement might do the trick).
How to fix an iPhone that’s stuck in a boot loop
There are three solutions you can try to make your iPhone successfully boot again. Namely, these are factory reset, force restart, connect to iTunes.
Factory reset
If you’re asking yourself “why does my iPhone keeps restarting,” you should know that a simple factory reset of your device might work as the issue could be caused by a conflict between apps and iOS, some incomplete applications, or a faulty update installation.
While this method won’t roll back your device to a previous iOS version, in the case of a bad update, there might occur a conflict between the new version and some apps you have installed before the upgrade procedure.
Force restart
Force restart might also fix an iPhone boot loop. On iPhone handset older than iPhone 7 you must press and hold the Power and Home buttons simultaneously for at least 10 seconds to force-restart your phone. For iPhone 7 and newer, you have to press the Power and Volume Down button.
Force restart would fix small errors in the booting process of your iPhone.
Connect to iTunes
If your iPhone keeps restarting, one solution would be to connect it to iTunes. Once your handset is connected, the Apple iTunes will find the problem with your phone and would prompt you to restore or update it.
By following the steps as instructed by iTunes, your Apple handset will most probably recover, and you’ll be enjoying your iPhone or iPad again.
On the other hand, if none of the above methods works for you, an iOS repair toolkit might solve your iPhone issues so you’ll never have to ask again “Why does my iPhone keeps restarting?”
Henry Lares is still early into his career as tech reporter but has already had his work published in many major publications including Tech Crunch and the Huffington Post. In regards to academics, Henry earned an engineering degree from Apex Technical School. Henry has a passion for emerging technology and covers upcoming products and breakthroughs in science and tech.
