As a reader of this site, I’m pretty confident in saying that you love your iPhone, I mean who doesn’t right? For me, even my 14mnth old loves my iPhone – the teeth marks in the skin I have, are proof of that.

Sadly, as much as we love our phones, from time to time something will happen that causes the phone to crash, freeze or just become completely unresponsive. The first time this happens to you, your heart races, you start to panic – “noooooo”

I remember walking calmly to the back of our office to a mate who has a 1st Gen iPhone, and simply handing him the phone. He smiled and said “Oh, there’s a trick to this”

I thought I’d share that with you.

Rebooting your phone:

It’s very easy to reboot your iPhone, simply hold down the HOME button and the POWER button together until you see your phone reboot (about 15seconds). Release and the phone will continue to power up.

Quick Factory Reset:

If your iPhone is really giving you grief, you can do a factory reset right from the device, without having to plug into iTunes. Again, hold down the HOME and POWER buttons, for 10 seconds, and then release the POWER button (maintain pressing the home button). Your iPhone will now reset itself.

I hope you never have to use these tips, no really, I hope this post is a complete and utter waste of pixels on the internet. Sadly I realise we all have to do this at some stage.