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error code 4010 why does it keep showing

error code 4010 keeps popping up when I am going to restore it on iTunes pls help it says an unkown error 4010 iPhone could not be restored


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Posted on Oct 1, 2019 6:31 AM

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Posted on Dec 18, 2019 1:58 PM

It is 12th of December 2019 at the time of writing this. I was not able to use macOs High Sierra anymore to factory reset iPhone 6S Plus in DFU mode. I had to upgrade my macbook pro laptop macOS to Maverics in order to bypass error 4010. I was not successful using Windows 10 Home either.


AppStore of macOS High Sierra did not offer any updates for iTunes. AppStore did not initially provide any updates for iTunes just after upgrading to Maverics was complete either. I plugged in my genuine Apple Lightning to USB cable to my iPhone 6S Plus phone while iTunes application was open on macOS Maverics. At this point iTunes gave me an information box that the iTunes application needs to download updates. I assume updates for iTunes application itself because it closed and relaunched after completing the download. There was a brief "validating with Apple" style of information on top part of the iTunes application displayed at the point of process where the error 4010 had previously jumped in.


My conclusion is that error code 4010 could also be interpreted as "Unfortunatelly you seem to be one of our customers prone to drag down the speed of information technology development. We want you to buy all of our latest models of equipment at least every second year - with happy face of course."


I do not know which I would be more pleased. To see the second coming of Jesus or Steve Jobs raising from the dead.

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Aug 2, 2020 5:37 AM in response to AndreJuntermanns

Thank you, Andre! I didn't reinstall itunes since months and I was stuck on update 12.1 - my phone kept updating it and nothing helped. This time deleting and reinstalling itunes worked! I don't know why four times I did it last year it didn't help, but this time it did :)

I guess fifth time was a charm for my phone.

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Aug 24, 2020 11:19 PM in response to Brecramur

I'll be honest, I don't know what I did, but I'll tell you what I did before it worked.

Enter the itunes match option that remains in the store tab, then, try to restore but, while I was extracting the firmware, connect and then disconnect the iphone several times and obviously I do not detect the iphone well and then connect it normal and I started again to start the process but this time I do restore the most normal!

That 's what I did

sorry if there are things misspelled

I do not speak English!!!


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error code 4010 why does it keep showing

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