Iphone 7 Recovery

[Alethia Tiell]

Hithere, yesterday afternoon I tried updating my iPhone X to the new IOS 16.02. I was charging my phone through my Mac because I did not have a charger on hand. I left it to start the update and came back to see my phone had entered recovery mode. Then I followed the steps on support.apple.com/iphone/restore and I started the process of updating my phone through my laptop. However, the problem is my iPhone keeps restarting after roughly 30 minutes. My internet is rather slow so I cannot download the 5.33gb update before the device restarts. I am not sure what to do, even if I try to restore the device it still requires the update and I have no more solutions that I can think of. Any help will be great. Thank you

Hi there again, so today when I tried to follow the extra steps that you had provided. The pop up screen had changed, I was no longer able to just merely update the phone while keeping its data, I was only given the option to restore the phone. I ended up doing so, because I had backed up not too long ago so nothing crucial was lost. Regardless, thank you for the help.

I have an Iphone 5s. Recently I went to change the password, which I ended up forgetting. I've tried to remember the code and have disabled my phone for 1 hour so far. I don't want to keep typing in the wrong password and disable my phone for days. So I've tried putting my phone into recovery mode and connecting it to Itunes in order to restore it. Every time the restore starts my phone will stay on the recovery mode screen, but after about 15 minutes it will go back to the lock screen and continue to say "Iphone is disabled for 1 hour." This also happens when I turn my phone off and back on. I need to get into my phone and I really don't know this password. Help!!

After trying several different things, I still cannot get my phone out of recovery mode. I'm studying abroad and would very much like to not be stuck in Belgium without a phone. I also don't want to go buy a new one if there's a fix for this. I have tried everything from modifying hosts to using TinyUmbrella and it still will not restore. Any ideas?

So it at least let me get it back to the point where I can try to restore it, but it's still stuck in recovery mode. Every time I try to restore my phone it just says "error 36" or "device not eligible for the requested build" or some other random error message.

It took me speaking with 2 tech support and 2 trips to the apple store. The last time, when the tech restored, it came back to OS 6.1. When I got home, I connected to itunes and phone was recognized. Was able to sync to what I had backed up to my computer and then Icloud.

I tried to update my phone to ios7.4 and got the dreaded itunes and USB connecton sign, which meant stuck in recovery mode. Itunes was asking to restore the iphone, meaning loosing all the data which was not backed up.

I used a free trail of www.transfer-iphone-recover.com, Dr Fone...........one does not have to register, just proceed straith to free trail and click, it restored my phone back to its original state and out of the dread recovery mode.

I just downloaded to my Mac, installed it, connected my iPhone, used the special Restart button in the yellow area on the main screen and did NOTHING else. That was enough to SHOCK my iPhone back to life and get it out of Recovery mode.

Thanks for this fix Bill. This happened to me for the first time today and I was rather anxious but downloaded the Dr Fone, plugged in my phone and literally did nothing, didn't even have to click on any of the buttons, my phone just came back to the land of the living. Excellent, a big help.

Rick - your post just sounds like an ad for this software. If you already have a backup, why wouldn't you just do a regular restore via iTunes? I'm stuck in this state, but don't have a backup. Is there a way to recover without losing what is on my phone?

I had to unplug my phone from the computer, hold the power and home key to reset it, then plug it back in and restore it. It took two atempts before it let itunes restore the phone. It all began after the automatic reboot with the iOS6 update.

For me, what fixed it was separately downloading (or torrenting, much faster) the firmware outside of itunes ( ), and "shift+clicking" the Restore button and browsing to the downloaded firmware. My device was iphone 4 GSM. This got my out of the stuck in Recovery Mode loop.

With TinyUmbrella running, when you connect your iPhone, the "Exit Recovery" button will be available. I simply clicked that. It rebooted my iPhone, and I now have OS 6 working and all my apps and data stil exist.

I do not know what IOS you are running on your computer, but Apple told me my sons macbook which is running mac os 10 is unable to run the latest iTunes thus it can't sync with iPhone IOS6. There is a work around but you have to take your computer to an apple store. If you are able to run the latest itunes (10.7.0.21) it won't run ios6. Son tried to run the ios6.1 update via itunes so now his iphone 4 is stuck in recovery mode. Looks like I will be making a trip to the apple store in the morning.

When she got the phone, her live-in daughter (my aunt) set up the phone for her, and set up all the accounts, passwords and passcodes, as well as setting up FaceID among other things, I wasn't around during setup (I live in a different city)

Not long ago, an auto-update hit her phone (auto downloaded and installed), restarted, and in turn restarted Secure Enclave, asking for her 6 digit passcode (that those among the living can't seem to figure out)

Now I should probably mention at this point, I'm probably the most tech savvy person in my entire family, and I know when to stop, others in my family don't, and keep trying to "help", making matters worse, and downright refuse to listen to me. In this case, they just keep trying passcodes trying to find one that will work, now they did it one too many times and disabled the phone

My grandmother and I went to the Apple Store near her, and due to COVID-19 precautions, they won't even let us enter the store without an appointment, I schedule an appointment (which I was unable to honor) and left, at this point, we were trying to keep the data on her phone, so we were avoiding anything that would wipe it

While we were at the Apple Store, the guy said if we were willing to wipe the data (which we didn't at the time), we could restore it by plugging it into a (any) computer and restarting it in restore mode, I mentioned that all available computers we have at the moment (not including my personal computers, which I don't have access to right now) were (Windows) PCs and don't have iTunes installed (and we will not be installing iTunes, or any other extra software, on them), he said "that is fine, it will work on Windows, and iTunes is no longer required, just plug in the iPhone to USB, restart in recovery mode and BAM, done, you have a factory reset iPhone"

Time goes by and my cousin (the deceased's daughter) takes our grandmother to the same Apple Store, and they say "oh, no problem, we can back that up" and they set up and appointment, they go to the appointment, see that the iPhone is disabled and go "Ooooh, its disabled, yeah we can't back that up", back to square one

I then, while using my phone, remembered that my phone was backed up to iCloud, I later found out that even my mother's iPhone was backed up to iCloud, and it hit me, what if my grandmother's iPhone is already backed up to iCloud? She wouldn't lose anything in a factory reset anyway, it would all be on iCloud at least, and we could eventually get into that

Anyway, we all decide to just factory reset the phone and erase everything, so I go back over, get her phone and go back to that Apple Store, which again they wont accept walk-ins due to COVID-19, so I planned an appointment for next week, but while discussing it, we figured I could just take her iPhone home with me and use one of the computers here

Here's the problem, nothing they said at the Apple Store seems to be true, I plugged the iPhone into a computer (with Windows 10) that doesn't have iTunes installed and is not currently connected to the internet (but according to the guy at the Apple Store, he never said an Internet connection was required), after getting the iPhone into recovery mode, it just gave me a URL to go to (support.apple.com/iphone/restore)

So I grab my Windows tablet I have available (also Windows 10, and also without iTunes, but is connected to the Internet) and with the iPhone in recovery mode and connected via USB to the tablet, I go to that URL, and read the only part that seems to pertain to what I am trying to do

If you are the owner of the iPhone or the owner has shared all information with you then to open Activation Lock:- If it is Activation locked, read here --> Turn off Activation Lock - Apple Support Activation Lock for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

If you are not the owner of the iPhone and do not have the Apple ID and Password then there is no way that you can get into this iPhone unless the original owner shares the Apple ID and password to you. If you are lucky you can get into this iPhone if they (owner) accidentally remove the device from their apple ID.

Even if I was willing to, I am limited to a desktop PC without Internet access (meaning I can't download iTunes, because it can't download anything), and a tablet with a full SSD, there's simply no room on it to install iTunes

Just to say for those who have issues putting their phones on recovery or DFU mode and this can happen with iphones

Download ReiBoot which is a tool that would do that for you then restore your phone via iTunes making sure your iTunes is up today , thus should get rid of activation error

Hope this would help

However, before I started the process - and this is what it made so uncomfortable like jumping into a black iPhone shaped hole - I could not see the backups listed beforehand though as under File>Devices the backup option was greyed out and there was no further detail to be seen.

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