For the most part, my iPhone has been pretty reliable. Sure, I’ve had and written about some pretty annoying program crashes, but I haven’t had any of the kinds of instability that can plague desktop computers. No system-wide freezes (not that that’s common on systems running Mac OS X anyway), no application freezes, no real need to restart.
Which is as it should be. Consumer devices that need to be always-on and ultra-reliable like phones should crash rarely if ever.
Still, sometimes trouble crops up. When it does, it’s good to know how to quit programs, restart, or reboot the iPhone. I’ve just added a few articles to the site about how to do those very things. You may not ever need them, but if you do, they’re good to have:
