Is a hard reset detrimental for the 6s ? ( I restarted the phone cause I thought I had signal issues but i was wrong )

IS hard reset detrimental for iPhone 6s ? I hard restarted phone for false reasons

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 29, 2016 12:08 PM

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Sep 30, 2016 3:01 AM in response to Fiokimon

If you are talking about a force restart, which is usually what people mean by hard reset, it's probably not harmful if you just did it once and didn't notice any changes afterwards. If you force restart on a regular basis, that can cause major problems over time since you would regularly be forcing running processes on your phone to instantly quit, so it is not recommended. Force restarting can cause corruptions if any read/write processes are stopped. Modern systems are generally able to recover from minor corruptions without the user ever knowing that a corruption has occurred, so you shouldn't need to worry if you don't notice any changes to how your phone is operating. If you do notice that your phone is acting strange, a restore should take care of it.

Sep 30, 2016 8:14 AM in response to Fiokimon

Updating would not be an equivalent of a restore, but updating is one of the ways that it could recover itself from a possible corruption, depending on what may have happened. If you haven't tried restarting your phone by properly turning it off and back on again, that would be the first step. If that doesn't help and the problem becomes worse after updating, then I would recommend a restore.

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Is a hard reset detrimental for the 6s ? ( I restarted the phone cause I thought I had signal issues but i was wrong )

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