Restarting All iPhone & iPod Models

Every iPod touch needs to be restarted once in a while to fix freezes, app crashes, or other problems. Here's how you do it.

When your brand-new third-generation iPod nano freezes and stops responding, it can be frustrating. Luckily, unfreezing it is fairly simple.

A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod video.

A good first step in troubleshooting some problems with the iPod nano is to reset (AKA restart) the device.

A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod shuffle.

From time to time Clickwheel iPods will freeze up and stop responding to clicks. When this happens, you need to restart them to get them working again.

A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod mini.

A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen first or second generation iPod.

In most cases, iPhone 3GS users don't want to fully turn their phones off when they're not using them. Instead, most of us usually just want to put the phone to sleep to conserve battery and prevent accidental calls. However, you might want to turn your phone off when it's got very low battery.

Rebooting your iPhone is the easiest and most common way to fix a phone that's behaving strangely or is frozen up.

Learn how to reset--AKA restart--an iPhone 3G (though this technique applies to all other iPhone models, too).

You won't find a button labeled on/off on an iPhone. That's because. by default, iPhones go to sleep instead of turning off. But does that mean you can't turn them off?

Restarting your iPhone can solve a multitude of problems--in fact, it's a good first step in almost any troubleshooting process. Here's how to do it.

The default behavior of the iPhone is to go to sleep when it's not in use. But that's not your only option. You can also completely turn the iPhone off.

In much the same way that many things changed with the 6th generation iPod nano, the way you restart or reboot it changed also.

A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod Classic (aka the 6th generation iPod).

When you factory reset an iPhone 4, you're returning the iPhone to the state it was in when it left the factory: you're completely erasing the phone and starting over from scratch. You'd want to factory reset an iPhone 4 when you're selling it, sending your iPhone in for repairs, or when there's a problem with the iPhone so severe that this is...