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Backup Your Data FirstĪs a common disclaimer, before performing any factory reset, it’s essential to back up the important or sacred information on your phone. So when I say to hold down the side button, for the iPhone 8 at least, it means the button on the side formerly known as the sleep button. It is no longer the sleep button but merely the side button, which is somehow both more and less descriptive than it was before. As an added bonus, I’ll show you how to soft reset it, too.Īs well as changing what the sleep button does, Apple also changed the nomenclature of it. Here is how to factory reset the iPhone 8. It’s a valuable feature, to be sure, but we don’t want to accidentally trigger it when we don’t need it purely because of muscle memory, so we have to change the way we reset the phone.

Performing this button combination now activates the Emergency SOS feature of the iPhone 8.

Previously, you would hold the power (or sleep) button and the volume button to perform a reset of your iPhone. Using the same interface and functionality for so many years, the 8 was quite different in some ways. With the release of the iPhone 8 came updates and changes which is rather rare for the company.