All You Need to Know About DFU Mode

All You Need to Know About DFU Mode

1. What's iPhone DFU Mode

The DFU Mode allows all devices such as iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to be restored from any state. DFU refers to Device Firmware Update. Compared to ​recovery mode, it's more comprehensive and usually used to solve more difficult and serious problems.​​​​

2. When to Use iPhone DFU Mode

For most problems, you don't need to put your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into DFU mode. Recovery mode may have already fixed the problem for you. Here are some cases you will need to use DFU mode:

• Jailbreak iPhone or un-jailbreak it. iPhone comes with some restrictions on how you can use your iPhone, for example what kind of apps you can install on your iPhone. People jailbreak iPhone in order to gain more control of it.
• Downgrade iOS. Sometimes updating to the newest version of iOS is not the best choice for you. For example, iOS 11 was complained by many people for its obvious bugs when it was released and many people were looking for a way to downgrade it to the previous version.
• The problems that cannot be fixed by recovery mode.

It is necessary to know that using DFU mode to downgrade firmware to the unsigned version or jailbreak your device might damage it and violate its warranty. If DFU restore failed, you can check some solutions to fix the problem.Sponsor Ads:

Gihosoft iPhone Data Recovery is a professional iPhone Data Recovery software to get back all your lost text message, photo, video, call history, note, contact and more from iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. It offers a full solution to recover your lost data in different tough situations. Besides recovering data directly from iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, it also allows you to recover data from iCloud and iTunes backup files. What's more, it supports Smart Recovery modes that can find your iPhone data quickly.

https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-data-recovery-free.html

3. How to Enter DFU Mode

How to Put iPhone 8/8 Plus & iPhone X into DFU Mode

1. Connect the device to your computer
2. Quickly press the Volume Up button first and then the Volume Down button. Press and hold the Side button. Don't release it when the screen turns black.  
3. Press and hold the Volume Down button together with the Side button for 5 seconds.
4. After 5 seconds, release the Side button but keep holding the Volume Down button for at least 5 seconds. 

How to Put iPhone 7/7 Plus into DFU Mode

1. Press and hold Side button and Volume Down button simultaneously for 8-10 seconds.
2. Release the Side button but continue holding the Volume Down button for about 5 seconds.

How to Put iPhone 6/6 Plus & Earlier Models into DFU Mode

1. Press and hold Side button and Home button simultaneously for 8-10 seconds.
2. Release the Side button but continue holding the Home button for about 5 seconds.

If you iPhone has entered DFU mode, your device screen will be black and it will be detected by iTunes as a device in recovery mode.

4. How to Exit DFU Mode

To exit DFU Mode, you can also simply force restart your device.