How to Use Recovery Mode in Apple iPhone XS Max?

Have you ever found it difficult to admit that you know what’s “recovery mode” in iPhones? Is you phone performing below its optimal level or is it facing any software issues or damages or the phone is stuck or the screen is frozen? Well, this is where the recovery mode on your iPhone XS Max kicks in as it is the most imperative and powerful failsafe on iBoot that allows the user to restore to the original state of the device when it ends up getting into any problem.

If you read any of the troubleshooting guides about iPhone XS Max on GetDroidTips or practically any website, you will see that the recovery mode is particularly common across a tonne of software-related issues because it is effective.

What is Recovery Mode in iPhone XS Max?

For those who don’t know about it, recovery mode is accessible on all the smartphones and it is a bootable partition which can be accessed via a special set of instructions that you need to follow. Recovery mode is essentially a failsafe mechanism in case if you ever end up with an iPhone which is facing issues running properly or if it’s performance is degrading or the screen is freezing, flickering. It can also come in handy if any of the apps including both bloatware or pre-installed apps as well as downloaded apps cause any problem and you aren’t able to fix it.

Recovery mode essentially gives you two major options that are whether you want to restore the iOS on your iPhone XS Max or update to the latest available firmware that would essentially fix any minor glitch or issues if not taken care by any other methods depending upon which type of issues you are facing. It can help repair any specific part of the software or the firmware as a whole in case of any bad updates or corrupted cache or memory have caused issues with the phone and thus, it is an all-powerful mechanism that needs a specific set of instructions.

Note that you must take a backup of all the data you want to secure a restoring the device to its original factory settings which is one of the two major functionalities of the recovery mode means that you will no longer retrieve that data if deleted. Since iOS updates all the user content, it means you might be able to retrieve some of the data if not all even if you haven’t backed it up.

You should also know that there are two ways of invoking similar but slightly different functions i.e. the recovery mode and the DFU mode. The recovery mode invokes iBoot process thereby signaling the system that the user is trying to install either the equal or greater version of iOS already installed on the system and thus, it requires to connect to the iTunes to enable it. On the flip side, DFU or Device Firmware Update mode bypasses the iBoot process and connects to the iTunes on a PC or Mac while allowing the user to either upgrade or downgrade the iOS, reboot a connected jailbroken device and so on.