iPad Pro 12.9 2nd gen - DFU without working power button

It is a common misconception that an iPad (or iPhone) can remain fully functional with damaged or defective physical buttons. 

Whilst Accessibility features (such as assistive touch) can be used to augment the User Interface, these features cannot be used as a substitute for physical button sequences that must be used to trigger system recovery actions. Sooner or later, as now, you will encounter a situation from which you cannot recover.

Until repaired, you will not be able to perform a hardware DFU recovery - or reset a forgotten device passcode.

DawidXT wrote:

You don't understand the situation correctly. My english is not wonderful, but why you assumed that this is for sure damaged or defective physical button?

I called three fixing services, including the official Apple partner here in Poland - Cortland. They all said that this issue is not common or two of them said it's weird, they never had such problem with this iPads before - they were suprised.

That's why I did search, and I found that trying DFU restore might solve this issue (it might be software issue) and so I ended up here.

But if I am right as You say - there is no legal way to do DFU without this button(?)

By your own description, you have stated that you have purchased a second-hand iPad with a known issue - this being a non-functioning Top (a.k.a. Sleep/Wake) button.

Unless the Top and other physical buttons are fully working, you’ll not be able to trigger the DFU process.

You should be able to find some if you do a Google search of “apps to put iPad in dfu mode”, something should come up.

There are apps that will let you put a device in DFU mode. Something should come up if you do a Google search.

There are several apps that have this function.

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