iOS 26 Allows You to Restore Any iPhone Without a Mac or PC

iOS 26 adds a caller Recovery Assistant diagnostic to each compatible iPhones, and it tin assistance instrumentality the instrumentality to a moving state, with nary Mac oregon PC required.


Recovery Assistant was introduced successful the archetypal iOS 26 beta, but Apple lone mentioned the diagnostic successful its release notes for the second iOS 26 beta today.

"Recovery Assistant is simply a caller mode to retrieve your instrumentality if it doesn't commencement up normally," says Apple. "It tin look for problems and effort to resoluteness them if found."

Apple says an iPhone moving iOS 26 volition footwear into a Recovery mode if the instrumentality has "encountered an contented portion starting."

Here is what Recovery mode says connected the iPhone's screen: "This iPhone encountered an contented portion starting. To assistance successful diagnosing and resolving it, it has booted into Recovery. Recovery volition look for immoderate problems and effort to resoluteness them if found."

According to a Reddit post, Recovery Assistant tin assistance you instrumentality an iPhone to a moving authorities with assistance from different Apple device, specified arsenic an iPad. This process tin beryllium initiated done the paper successful the top-right country of the Recovery mode connected the affected iPhone. On the different Apple device, you tin travel the on-screen steps to download and instal a newer iOS mentation connected the iPhone that is successful Recovery mode, to assistance revive it.

This seems to grow connected a betterment diagnostic that debuted on iPhone 16 models past year.
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