How To Reset Iphone Without Delete Everything

Summary: Sometimes reset is essential to fix iPhone issues. But iPhone reset leads to loss of your device data. Here in this post, you will learn how to reset iPhone without worrying about losing data.

Your iPhone is troubling you and only factory reset can solve the problem. However, you may not be keen to do it as reset of iPhone leads to complete data loss. Do not worry. This post shares how you can factory reset iPhone without losing data and fix your device issues.

Factory Reset iPhone without Losing Data

Factory reset resolves most of the iPhone issues such as freezing Apps, iPhone 0 bytes problem, iPhone error 26, no sound issue during calls, or some annoying bug.

Since it is often a necessity, here are the best solutions to reset your iPhone without losing its data:

Reset after iCloud or iTunes backup
Reset and restore using Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone
Reset iPhone using Reset All Settings option

1. Reset after iCloud or iTunes backup

When you Erase All Content and Settings, it completely resets your device. All information including apps, photos, videos, contacts, messages, calendar, or music etc. are lost. In order to restore your iPhone after factory reset, first take the backup of data in iCloud or iTunes. Backup ensures that you do not lose any data after factory settings in your iPhone.

Steps to iCloud backup

- On your iPhone go to Settings > iCloud > Backup

Enable iCloud backup

Steps to iTunes backup

Connect your iPhone to the computer and open iTunes.
Select your iPhone in iTunes. Under Backups, click on Back Up Now.

After your iPhone is back to factory settings, you can restore all contacts, photos, videos, music, Safari history, WhatsApp, Line, Kik messages, etc., from the backup created in iCloud or iTunes.

Steps to restore iPhone data from iCloud backup after reset:

Plug in your iPhone to power and connect it to a Wi-Fi network
Go toApp & Data > Restore from iCloud Backup
Sign in to your iCloud account
Choose backup from the list and wait for the restoration process to finish

Steps to restore from iTunes after factory reset:

1. Connect iPhone to computer and open iTunes
2. Select your device the list in iTunes
3. In Summary, select the iPhone backup to restore
4. ClickRestore Backup

2. Reset and Restore with Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone

The best way to restore iPhone information after reset is through Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone. It lets you reset and restore iPhone without losing data.

You may not want to restore everything from the backup or perhaps not every information is worth keeping. Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone gives you the flexibility to select your data and then restore.

Sometimes, even iTunes or iCloud backup become inaccessible due to technical glitches. With Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone you can recover lost files also from the backup. The DIY software recovers missing or accidentally deleted contacts, messages, calendar, call history, music, photos, and videos, etc. from iTunes, iCloud and iPhone.

Water damage, jailbreak, black dot of death etc., the software efficiently restores data in all such situations.

Restore iPhone data now:

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3. Reset iPhone using Reset All Settings option

In order to avoid complete data loss, you can opt for reset via Reset All Settings option. This method deletes the default settings of your iPhone without wiping out the other data. The personal preferences for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sounds, General, and Privacy etc. will be removed but the rest of your iPhone data including photos, videos, music, calendar, messages etc. remain in the device.

Follow on to your iPhone Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings.

Reset iPhone using Reset All Settings option

Note: Here, be careful not to click Erase All Content and Settings option, which will completely delete your iPhone data.

Conclusion

iPhone reset is sometimes inevitable. With above methods, you can factory reset without any fear of data loss.

While restoring from iTunes or iCloud may not always work, you can trust Stellar Data Recovery for iPhone to get back all your lost information including WhatsApp, Kik, Line messages, contacts, music, photos, etc.

Moreover, with Stella Data Recovery software, you get to choose the specific data that needs to be restored in the device. This feature comes quite handy because you don't need to copy everything from the previous iPhone data.

Just follow the backup, reset and restore process, and now you can reset your iPhone without losing data.