Return iPhone settings to their default settings (2024)

iPhone User Guide

Welcome
- Basics of installation
- Make your iPhone your own
- Take great photos and videos
- Stay connected with friends and family
- Share features with your family
- Use iPhone for your daily routines
- Expert advice from Apple Support
What's new in iOS 17
- Turn on the iPhone and set it up
- Wake up and unlock
- Configure mobile service
- Use Dual-SIM
- Connect to the internet
- Search settings
- Set up email, contacts, and calendar accounts
- Learn the meaning of the status icons
- Read and bookmark the owner's manual
- - Learn basic movements
  - Learn gestures for iPhone models with Face ID
- Adjust the volume
- Multitasking with picture in picture
- Access features from the lock screen
- Watch live activities on the dynamic island
- Take quick actions
- Search on iPhone
- Get information about your iPhone
- View or change mobile data settings
- Traveling with iPhone
- Change sounds and vibrations
- Use the action button on iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
- Create a custom lock screen
- Change the background
- Adjust the screen brightness and color balance
- Keep iPhone screen on longer
- Use Standby
- Adjust the text size and zoom setting
- Change the name of your iPhone
- Change date and time
- Change language and region
- Use and customize the Control Center
- Change or lock the screen orientation
- Adjust sharing options
- Add or change keyboards
- Add emoji and stickers
- Take a screenshot
- Take a screen recording
- - Sign up documents
  - Add text, shapes, signatures and more
- Fill out forms and sign documents
- Use Live Text to interact with content in an image or video
- Use visual search to identify objects in your photos and videos
- Lift a subject from the photo background
- - Hent-apps
  - Use app clips
  - Update apps
  - View or cancel subscriptions
  - Manage purchases, settings and restrictions
  - Install and manage fonts
- - Buy books and audiobooks
  - Read books
  - Annotate books
  - Access books on other Apple devices
  - Listen to audiobooks
  - Set reading goals
  - Organize books
  - Read PDFs
- Calculator
- - Create and edit events in Calendar
  - Send invitations
  - Respond to invitations
  - Change the way you view events
  - Search for events
  - Change the calendar and events settings
  - Plan or view events in a different time zone
  - Keep track of events
  - Use multiple calendars
  - Use the holiday calendar
  - Share iCloud calendars
- - Adjust the shutter volume
  - Juster HDR camera manufacturer
  - Record videos
  - Record spatial videos for Apple Vision Pro
  - Record ProRes videos
  - Record videos in cinematic mode
  - Change the video recording settings
  - Save camera settings
  - Adjust the main camera lens
  - Change advanced camera settings
  - View, share and print photos
  - Use Live Text
  - Scan a QR code
- - See the world clock
  - Set an alarm
  - Change the next wake up alarm
  - Use the stopwatch
  - Use multiple timers
- Compass
- - Add and use contact information
  - Edit contacts
  - Add your contact details
  - Use NameDrop on iPhone to share your contact information
  - Use other contact accounts
  - Use Contacts from the Phone app
  - Merge or hide duplicate contacts
  - Export contacts
- - Get started with FaceTime
  - - Make FaceTime calls
    - Receive FaceTime calls
  - Create a FaceTime link
  - Take a live photo
  - Enable Live Captions during a FaceTime call
  - Use other apps during a call
  - Make a group FaceTime call
  - View participants in a grid
  - Use SharePlay to watch, listen and play together
  - Share your screen during a FaceTime call
  - Collaborate on a document in FaceTime
  - Use video conferencing features
  - Transfer a FaceTime call to another Apple device
  - Change the FaceTime video settings
  - Change the FaceTime audio settings
  - Change your appearance
  - Leave a call or switch to Messages
  - Block unwanted calls
  - Report a call as spam
- - Connect external devices or servers
  - Edit files, folders and downloads
  - Search for files and folders
  - Organize files and folders
  - Send filer
  - Set up iCloud Drive
  - Share files and folders in iCloud Drive
- - Adjust map settings
- - Get started with Fitness
  - Track daily activity and change your exercise goal
  - View your activity overview
  - Sync a third-party training app
  - Change fitness notifications
  - Share your activity
- - Get started with Freeform
  - Create a Freeform board
  - Draw or handwriting
  - Add text
  - Add shapes
  - Adding files
  - Use consistent styles
  - Place objects on a plate
  - Find Freeform boards
  - Share and collaborate
  - Remove and repair signs
- - Get started with health
  - Enter your health information
  - - Download health data
    - See health records
  - Monitor your walking stability
  - - Record information about the menstrual cycle
    - View menstrual cycle predictions and history
  - - Follow your medications
    - Read more about your medication
  - - Record your state of mind
    - Request a mental health assessment
  - - Check your headphone levels
    - Bridge audiogram data
  - Register as an organ donor
  - Back up your health data
- - Introduction to the house
  - Upgrade to the new Home architecture
  - Putting on accessories
  - Accessories for operation
  - Control your home with Siri
  - Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy consumption
  - Set up HomePod
  - Control your home remotely
  - Create and use scenes
  - Use automations
  - Set up security cameras
  - Use facial recognition
  - Unlock your door with a house key
  - Configure a router
  - Invite others to view accessories
  - Add more houses
- - Receive music, movies and TV series
  - Download ringtones
  - Manage purchases and settings
- - Get started with Journal
  - Write in your diary
  - Check your previous journal entries
  - Change the journal settings
- - Magnify nearby objects
  - Change settings
- - - Add and remove email accounts
    - Set up a custom email domain
  - Check your email
  - Set up email notifications
  - Search for email
  - Organize email into mailboxes
  - - Flag or block emails
    - Filter emails
  - - Use Hide my email address
    - Bridge Mail Privacy Protection
  - change email settings
  - Delete and recover emails
  - Add a Mail widget to your home screen
  - Print emails
- - See map
  - Receive traffic and weather information
  - Few rides
  - Estimate the travel time and expected arrival time
  - Download offline maps
  - Look around places
  - Tag viaduct
  - Find your Maps settings
- - Measure dimensions
  - View and save measurements
  - Measure the height of a person
  - Use the level
- - Configure messages
  - Om iMessage
  - Send and reply to messages
  - Undo and edit messages
  - Keep track of messages
  - Search
  - Forward and share messages
  - Group calls
  - Watch, listen or play together via SharePlay
  - Collaborate on projects
  - Brug iMessage-apps
  - Take and edit photos or videos
  - Share photos, links and more
  - Send stickers
  - Request, send and receive payments
  - Send and receive audio messages
  - Share your location
  - Animate messages
  - Turn off messages
  - Block, filter and report messages
  - Delete messages and attachments
  - Recover deleted messages
- - Get music
  - View albums, playlists and more
  - Play music
  - Show song credits and lyrics
  - Queue your music
  - Listen to the radio broadcast
  - Change the way music sounds
- - Get started with News
  - Use news widgets
  - View news stories curated for you
  - Reading stories
  - Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  - Listen to Apple News today
  - Search for news
  - Save stories in News for later
  - Subscribe to individual news channels
- - Get started with Notes
  - Add or remove accounts
  - Take and format notes
  - Draw or write
  - Add photos, videos and more
  - Scan text and documents
  - Working with PDF files
  - Add links
  - Take quick notes
  - Search notes
  - Organizer and mapper
  - Organize with tags
  - Use smart folders
  - Share and collaborate
  - Export or print notes
  - Lock sheet music
  - Change the Note settings
- - Phone call
  - Answer or reject incoming calls
  - During a conversation
  - Configure voicemail
  - Check voicemail
  - Change the voicemail greeting and settings
  - Choose ringtones and vibrations
  - Calling via Wi-Fi
  - Configure call forwarding and call waiting
  - Avoid unwanted calls
- - See photos and videos
  - Play videos and slideshows
  - Delete or hide photos and videos
  - Edit photos and videos
  - Trim video length and adjust slow motion
  - Edit videos in cinematic mode
  - Rediger Live-foto's
  - Edit portraits
  - Use photo albums
  - Edit, share and organize albums
  - Filter and sort photos and videos into albums
  - Make stickers from your photos
  - Duplicate and copy photos and videos
  - Merge duplicate photos and videos
  - Search for photos
  - Identify people and pets
  - Browse images by location
  - Share photos and videos
  - Share long videos
  - View photos and videos shared with you
  - See memories
  - Customize your reminders
  - Manage memories and featured photos
  - - Bridge iCloud Photos
    - Create shared albums
    - Add and remove people from a shared album
    - Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
    - Set up or sign up for a shared iCloud Photo Library
    - Add content to a shared iCloud Photo Library
    - Bridge iCloud shared photo library
  - Import and export photos and videos
  - Print photos
- - Vind podcasts
  - Listen to podcasts
  - Follow your favorite podcasts
  - Use the Podcast widget
  - Organizer of the podcast library
  - Download, gem or podcasts
  - Subscribe to podcasts
  - Listen to subscriber-only content
  - Change the download settings
- - Add or remove accounts
  - Make a shopping list
  - Add items to a list
  - Edit and manage a list
  - Find and organize lists
  - Work with templates
  - Organize with tags
  - Use smart lists
  - Share and collaborate
  - Print reminders
  - Use the Reminders widget
  - Change the reminder settings
- - Surfing the Internet
  - Search for websites
  - Adjust your Safari settings
  - Change formatting
  - Use Safari profiles
  - Use Siri to listen to a web page
  - Bookmark favorite web pages
  - Save pages to a reading list
  - Find links shared with you
  - Annotate a web page and save it as a PDF
  - Fill in forms automatically
  - Get extensions
  - Hide ads and distractions
  - Ryd from the cache
- Shortcuts
- - Check supplies
  - Manage multiple watchlists
  - Reading business news
  - Add income reports to your calendar
  - Use a Stock widget
- Tips
- - Translate text, voice and conversations
  - Translate text in apps
  - Translate with the camera view
- - Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass or an Apple TV channel
  - Add your TV provider
  - Receive series, movies and much more
  - Control playback
  - Manage your library
  - Change the settings
- - Make a recording
  - Play it
  - Edit or delete a recording
  - Keep recordings up to date
  - Organize surveys
  - Find or rename a recording
  - Share a recording
  - Duplicate a recording
- - Store cards and maps in Wallet
  - Configurator Apple Pay
  - Use Apple Pay for contactless payments
  - Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
  - Track your orders
  - Use Apple Cash
  - Bridge Apple Card
  - Use savings
  - Pay for transit
  - Access to your home, hotel room and vehicle
  - Add ID card
  - Use a passport
  - Use the COVID-19 vaccination card
  - Check your Apple account balance
  - Bridge Express Mode
  - Organize your wallet
  - Remove the card or cards
- - Check the weather
  - Check the weather elsewhere
  - See weather map
  - Manage weather notifications
  - Use weather widgets
  - Learn the weather icons
- Brug Siri
- Find out what Siri can do
- Tell Siri about yourself
- Let Siri announce calls and notifications
- Add Siri Shortcuts
- About Siri Suggestions
- Use Siri in your car
- Change Siri settings
- Contact the emergency services
- Use Emergency SOS via satellite
- Request roadside assistance via satellite
- Set up and view your medical ID
- Bridge check-in
- Manage crash registration
- Reset privacy and security settings in case of emergency
- Set up Family Sharing
- Add family members
- Remove family sharing members
- Share subscriptions
- Purchase of shares
- Share locations with family and find lost devices
- Stel Apple Cash Family en Apple Card Family in
- Set parental controls
- Set up a child's device
- Get started with screen time
- Protect the health of your vision with Screen Distance
- Set screen time
- Set communication and security limits and block inappropriate content
- Charging cable
- Power adapters
- MagSafe chargers and battery packs
- MagSafe cases and covers
- Qi-certified wireless chargers
- - Use AirPods
  - Use EarPods
- Apple Watch
- - Stream videos and photos wirelessly to Apple TV or a smart TV
  - Connect a monitor with a cable
- HomePod and other wireless speakers
- External storage devices
- Bluetooth-accessories
- Printers
- Share your internet connection
- Allow phone calls on your iPad and Mac
- Use the iPhone as a webcam
- Divide tasks between units
- Cut, copy and paste between iPhone and other devices
- Stream video or mirror the screen on your iPhone
- Start SharePlay immediately
- Use AirDrop to send items
- Connect the iPhone and your computer with a cable
- Introduction to CarPlay
- Connect to CarPlay
- Brug Siri
- Use your vehicle's built-in controls
- Receive step-by-step guidance
- Report traffic incidents
- Change map view
- Call around
- Play music
- See your calendar
- Send and receive text messages
- Announce incoming text messages
- Play podcasts
- Play audiobooks
- Listen to news
- Control your home
- Use other apps with CarPlay
- Rearrange icons on CarPlay Home
- Change settings in CarPlay
- Get started with accessibility features
- Enable accessibility features for configuration
- Change Siri's accessibility settings
- Open functions with an accessibility shortcut
- - Overview
  - Use guided access
- Use built-in privacy and security measures
- Keep your Apple ID safe
- Create and manage Hide my email addresses
- Protect your internet use with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use advanced data protection
- Use lock mode
- Use protection against stolen devices
- Receive alerts about sensitive content
- Use ignition key verification
- Turn iPhone on or off
- Force restart iPhone
- Update iOS
- Back up iPhone
- Return iPhone settings to their default settings
- Restore all content from backup
- Recover purchased and deleted items
- Sell, give away or trade your iPhone
- Wis de iPhone
- Install or remove configuration profiles
- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more software and service resources
- FCC Compliance Statement
- ISED Canada Compliance Statement
- Ultra Broadband Information
- Class 1 laser information
- Apple and the environment
- Disposal and recycling information
- Unauthorized modification of iOS
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You can return to the default settings without deleting your content.

To save your settings,make a backupiPhone before resetting them to default settings. For example, if you're trying to solve a problem and resetting to default settings doesn't help, you can restore your previous settings from a backup.

Go to Settings> General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset.
Choose an option:
WARNING:If you select the Delete all content and settings option, all your content will be deleted. To seeWis de iPhone.
- Reset all settings:All settings, including network settings, the keyboard dictionary, location settings, privacy settings, and ApplePay cards, will be deleted or reset to their default settings. No data or media is deleted.
- Reset network settings:All network settings will be deleted. Additionally, the device name assigned in Settings > General > About will be reset to "iPhone" and manually trusted certificates (such as for websites) will be changed to untrusted.
  Mobile data roaming can also be disabled. (To seeView or change cellular data settings on iPhone.)
  Resetting network settings removes previously used network and VPN settings that were not installed by a configuration profile or mobile device management (MDM). Wi-Fi turns off and then back on, leaving you disconnected from whatever network you're on. The Wi-Fi and Ask to connect to networks settings remain enabled.
  To remove VPN settings installed by a configuration profile, go to Settings > General > VPN & device management, select the configuration profile, and then tap Remove profile. This will also remove other settings and accounts from the profile. To seeInstall or remove configuration profiles on iPhone.
  To remove the network settings installed by MDM, go to Settings > General > VPN & device management, select the management, and then tap Remove management. This will also remove other settings and certificates from MDM. See 'Mobile device management (MDM)'Implementation reference for iPhone and iPad.
- To reset keyboard dictionary:You add words to the keyboard dictionary by rejecting words that iPhone suggests as you type. Resetting the keyboard dictionary will only delete the words you added.
- To reset home screen layout:Returns the built-in apps to their original layout on the home screen.
- To reset location and privacy:Reset the location services and privacy settings to their default settings.

If you want to completely erase your iPhone, seeUse Settings to erase iPhone. If you want or need to use a computer to erase your iPhone, seeUse a computer to erase iPhone.