How to Fix a Frozen iPhone, iPad or iPod (All Models)

Every owner of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod has had a frozen device that needed to be restarted at least once or twice. Frozen devices are less common these days than they used to be, but that makes it even more annoying when it happens.

Luckily, fixing a frozen iPhone, iPad, or iPod is as simple as restarting it. The only tricky thing is knowing the exact steps you have to go through to restart a frozen device. Those steps differ based on which model you have.

No matter what model you have, this article has you covered. It provides information on every model and a link to our step-by-step instructions for restarting each of them.

Every iPhone used to have the same restart process, but then the iPhone 7, 8, X, XS/XR, and 11 came along. Because they each have different hardware options and features, restarting them is different, too.

• Instructions on how to restart all iPhone models

Every iPad model — except for the 2018 iPad Pros and newer models — uses the same restart process that older iPhones and the iPod touch do. Press a few buttons and you'll restart right away.

• Instructions on how to restart all iPad models

Apple's "iPhone without the phone" is the most popular iPod model and the only one still being sold. It restarts just like an iPad and some older iPhones.

• Instructions on how to restart all iPod touch models

Each version of the portable and powerful iPod nano has looked very different, which means restarting each one is slightly different. (Not sure which model you have? Check out these model descriptions to find out.) That said, most of them restart using the Clickwheel.

• Reset instructions for all iPod nano models

Restarting these devices usually requires pressing buttons, but one Shuffle model doesn't have any buttons at all. Combine that with the different Shuffle form factors and the restart instructions are very different for each model.

• Instructions on how to restart all iPod Shuffle models

With so many different models in the original iPod line, you'd think there might be a lot of different ways to restart them. Actually, it's mostly based on the Clickwheel.

• Instructions on how to restart all models in the original iPod line (includes iPod Classic, iPod Photo, Clickwheel iPod, and all generations)
• Instructions on how to restart all iPod mini models