How to Force Your iPad to Restart

May 23, 2021 / By

This very brief tutorial will explain how to force your iPad to restart if it gets stuck or freezes up.

Just to ease your mind – forcing your iPad to restart will not cause any loss of data – with the possible exception of any work you were doing at the time the iPad and/or App froze, forcing you to reboot it.

  1. It’s actually very easy, once you know how to do it. Click and hold down the Sleep/Wake button (located on the upper-right corner of your iPad). While you’re holding down the Sleep/Wake button, hold down the Home button as well (located on the front of your iPad at the bottom).

    2. the sleep/wake and home buttons on an iPad

  2. Hold down both buttons until your iPad powers off. It will reboot and start again with a small silver Apple image on the screen. It takes about 30 seconds for the iPad completely start up.

    3. ipad being forced to restart

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6 thoughts on “How to Force Your iPad to Restart”

  4. Evan

    Thanks for posting this. It worked perfectly. I didn’t think the ipad would restart but it did after about a minute.

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