Putting your iPod Touch into its Device Firmware Upgrade mode bypasses the currently installed operating system, allowing you to upgrade, restore or downgrade your device's firmware. Software ...

In the past couple of days, we've seen reports here and there of iPhones getting stuck in a restart loop. The black screen with the Apple logo shows up, holds for a while, and then disappears again; ...

Last fall, our sister site, MacFixit, reported that Mac OS X 10.5.6 causes iPhone jailbreak/unlock problems by making it impossible to enter DFU mode, a deeper version of Recovery Mode activated by ...

DFU, short for Device Firmware Update, is a special mode that enables a computer to update its firmware. In DFU mode an iPhone can still communicate with iTunes but without iTunes automatically ...

Upgrading my Touch to Apple's latest mobile OS bricked the device, forcing me to do a total restore, a complaint among many other users. What's the safest way to update your iDevice? Lance Whitney is ...

You can erase all the memory off of your iPad Touch without the password by connecting the device to iTunes, and then placing the device in the Device Firmware Update ...

About a week after the first successful modification to the new iPod Nano’s .plist file was made — whisking away one of the pre-installed icons from the home screen — dev Steven Troughton-Smith has ...

With the release of the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, Apple made some changes to the methods used to force restart its flagship device. These changes come just a year after Apple made similar changes to the ...