DFU Mode: How to Enter and Exit DFU Mode of Your iOS Device

Part 1: How put iPhone in DFU mode

Since DFU mode can help to solve such difficult issues, how can we put an iDevice (iOS 9/9.3 included) into DFU mode? It's not a complicated technical work. Actually, everybody with an iPhone can do it alone by following either way below.

How to enter DFU mode with iTunes

Step 1. Connect your iPhone to the computer and run iTunes.

Step 2. Turn your iPhone off by pressing the Power button on the top of your iPhone.

Step 3. Press the Power and Home buttons at the same time for exactly 10 seconds.

Step 4. After that, release the Power button and keep pressing the Home button for another 10 seconds.

Step 5. When you see a pop-up message from iTunes as follows, you can let your finger pressing on the Home button go.

Note: Before you are going to put iPhone in DFU mode, please remember to backup your iPhone data with iTunes. After exiting iPhone DFU mode, you can directly restore your iPhone from iTunes backup.

Part 2: How to exit iPhone DFU mode(Free)

If your iPhone stuck in DFU mode, the easiest and free way to get it out is pressing the Power button and the Home button at the same time for about 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo appears. This way works for all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch 5, iPod touch 4.

Note: This method may cause data loss!

Part 3: How to exit DFU mode on iOS devices(No data loss)

As for exiting DFU mode may lead to the concequence of data loss, we can try another way to exit DFU mode without losing data. Luckily, we find that Dr.Fone - iOS System Recovery can help you exit DFU mode and won't lose any of your data.

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• Get your iOS device out of DFU mode easily, no data loss at all.
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Steps to exit DFU mode with your iPhone or iPad

First of all, connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to the computer and run Dr.Fone. Choose "More Tools" from the left hand of the main window.

Step 1: Choose the "iOS System Recovery" feature. Then click "Start".

Step 2: Then Dr.Fone will directly scan and detect your iPhone and you'll get the window as follows. Click "Download" to get the firmware for your iOS device.

Step 3: After a few minutes, the download process will finish, and Dr.Fone will continue to repaire your iOS system and help to exit DFU mode of your iOS device.

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If you have any other question about how to enter and exit DFU mode, or you have some good suggestions, welcome to share them with us or left your comments below.

Tips: How to selectively restore iPhone after exiting DFU mode

After exiting iPhone DFU mode, then we will go to restore our iPhone. So, this is also why we suggest you backup your iPhone data with iTunes in "Part 1". Usually, we can directly restore iPhone from iTunes backup with iTunes, this is a general solution. But this solution doesn't allow you to preview and selectively restore your iPhone files. And we don't need to restore all the iPhone data, since some of them are useless. So here we show you a different and flexible tool, Dr.Fone - iPhone Data Recovery, to restore iPhone from iTunes backup. This program can both retrieve your lost data from iOS devices or recover your data from iTunes backup and iCloud backup.

Steps to flexibly restore iPhone data

Step 1: Launch the program and connect your device to the computer. Then select "Recvoer from iTunes Backup File" from the left side of the window. If you have backup files on your computer, then just click "Select" to get your iTunes backup files. Here is an article tell you how to find iPhone backup location.

Step 2: Select your iTunes backup file and tap on "Start Scan" to scan your backup files. After a few minutes, your backup files will be listed on the interface. You can preview and select whatever you want to restore them to your iOS device.

Note: Apart from recovering data from iTunes backup, Dr.Fone - iPhone Data Recovery can also help you to recover iPhone data from iCloud backup. If you have backed up your data on iCloud, then you can use this feature to restore iPhone from iCloud backup.