It’s such a hassle when you see that your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max is stuck on the Apple logo and won’t even load the Home Screen. Thankfully, your phone probably isn’t broken. There are several solutions when your iPhone is stuck showing the Apple logo.

Here, we’ll cover the reasons why your iPhone might be stuck on the Apple logo and then show you the different ways to fix this issue yourself.

Why Your iPhone 18 Pro Max Won’t Turn On and Gets Stuck on the Apple Logo

There are several reasons why your iPhone is stuck on the Apple logo and won’t get past this booting stage, such as:

• Bugs or other data corruption issues in the iPhone’s iOS.
• You restored or transferred corrupted files from an iCloud or iTunes backup.
• The iPhone has been jailbroken, which may have caused some software issues like a boot loop.
• You dropped your iPhone, and the impact has messed up some internal components.
• Your iPhone suffered water damage. Remember that although the iPhone is water-resistant, it’s not waterproof.

Below are some repair tips that can help revive your beloved iPhone if it’s stuck on the Apple logo screen:

1. Force Restart Your iPhone 18 Pro Max

Forcing your iPhone to restart might help solve this problem.

Press and quickly release the volume up button. Press and quickly release the volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button. Remember to do this in the correct order or your phone might text your SOS contacts.

During the rebooting phase, it’s normal for the screen to flash before powering down. It will reboot and won’t enter a boot loop. This process solves most issues, but there might be exceptions when it doesn’t work.

2. Reinstall iOS

If your device is still frozen on the Apple logo after a force restart, try reinstalling iOS instead. There’s a good chance that your phone was interrupted in the middle of an update, causing iOS to become corrupt.

Make sure that the progress bar on your iPhone screen hasn’t moved for at least one hour.

Recovery Assistant helps resolve startup issues by downloading a software package. If Recovery Assistant appears, click Continue to start the recovery process. The recovery process requires a Wi-Fi connection.

Connect your iPhone to a computer. On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder. If you’re using a PC, use the latest version of the Apple Devices app or iTunes.

Locate your iPhone in the Finder or the Apple Devices app. Press and release the Volume Up button. Press and release the Volume Down button. Press and hold the Side button. Keep holding the Side button until you see the recovery mode screen.

When getting the update or restore options, choose Update. Your computer will download and reinstall iOS without erasing your data.

3. Do a Factory Restore

One of the solutions when your iPhone doesn’t turn on is to do a factory restore. This option will erase all the data on your phone. Recovering your data afterward will be much easier if you back up your iPhone’s data to your computer or iCloud.

If you don’t have a backup, you will lose all your data when you complete this step.

To complete a factory restore, enter Recovery Mode as described in the previous sections. But now, instead of choosing to update your iPhone, you should select the Restore option on your computer instead. We advise you to do this only after you’ve tried the other solutions or if it’s a newly bought iPhone with no data stored in it yet.

4. Try a DFU Restore

Device Firmware Update mode (DFU mode) is a restore option for your iPhone that overwrites any incomplete software and firmware with new code. Although it’s not recommended for physically damaged devices, you can give this method a try if your iPhone doesn’t fall into that category.

To apply this solution when your iPhone is stuck on the Apple logo, there are three main steps. First, use a USB cable to connect your iPhone to a computer. Second, perform the steps below.

1. Press the Volume Up button and quickly release it, then do the same thing with the Volume Down button.
2. Press and hold the Side button. Then, when you get a black screen, press and hold the Volume Down button.
3. Keep holding these buttons for about five seconds. Then, release the Side button while still holding the Volume Down button.
4. Follow the prompts displayed on your computer.

Lastly, ensure the screen stays black after reaching the final step. If it does, it’s now in DFU mode, and you need to follow the prompts on your computer.

However, if you see the recovery mode screen, it’s in Recovery Mode instead. Reconnect your iPhone to your computer and repeat the instructions above. This time make sure you get the timing right.

5. Get It Repaired at an Apple Store

If you’ve exhausted all the options above, then it’s time to get your iPhone repaired professionally. If your iPhone is still under warranty, Apple should cover the repair for free, provided it isn’t damaged in any other way, such as liquid damage.

Getting your phone repaired may reveal hidden hardware issues. For example, your iPhone’s logic board might be damaged and need a replacement, which is why it kept getting stuck on the Apple logo.

So, feel free to book an Apple Store appointment at a Genius Bar if you have one nearby.

Simple Solutions for When Your iPhone 18 Pro Max Is Stuck on the Apple Logo

When your iPhone is stuck on the Apple logo, the most important thing to do is find out what might have caused it. Next, you can try the solutions we listed above to help solve the problem. When all else fails, please leave it to the professional technicians to fix your iPhone.

Looking to put your iPhone in recovery mode? You’ll need to use this function if your iPhone runs into major problems. But it’s not always clear how to put an iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max in recovery mode.

We’ll show you how to put your iPhone in recovery mode.

Force Restarting and iPhone Recovery Mode Explained

You hopefully won’t need to force restart your iPhone often, and should rarely have to put it in recovery mode. But it’s important to know for those occasions when something goes wrong.

When your device becomes completely unresponsive and you can’t shut it down with the usual method, instead of waiting for the battery to deplete, you can initiate a force restart. A force restart is equivalent to pulling a desktop computer’s power plug, as it forces your iPhone to shut down and start up again.

Recovery mode takes this a step further, putting your device into a state where you can reinstall iOS by connecting your iPhone to a computer running the Apple Devices app (or using Finder on macOS Catalina and newer). If your iPhone refuses to boot, crashes on startup, or gets stuck on the Apple logo for a long time, you’ll need to put the device into recovery mode in order to rescue it. Recovery Assistant helps resolve startup issues by downloading a software package. If Recovery Assistant appears, click Continue to start the recovery process. The recovery process requires a Wi-Fi connection.

If you choose Restore, it will erase your iPhone. This isn’t a problem if you make regular iPhone backups, which you can do using iCloud or locally in the Finder or the Apple Devices app. Unfortunately, you can’t back up your device in recovery mode, since the process will only offer to restore the firmware.

How to Enter Recovery Mode on iPhone

Note that you’ll need to perform these button combinations fairly quickly. If they don’t work once, try them again but faster.

How to Force Restart an iPhone 18 Pro Max

1. Press then release the Volume Up button.
2. Immediately press then release the Volume Down button.
3. Hold the Side button until you see an Apple logo. Let go of the button when you see this logo.

   

How to Put an iPhone 18 Pro Max Into Recovery Mode

1. Connect your iPhone to a computer.
   1. On a Mac with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later, open the Finder. If you’re using a PC, use the latest version of the Apple Devices app or iTunes.
2. Press then release the Volume Up button.
3. Immediately press then release the Volume Down button.
4. Hold the Side button, and don’t let go when you see the Apple logo.
5. Keep holding the Side button until you see the Recovery Mode screen.

How to Recover Your iPhone Using Recovery Mode

When you put your device into recovery mode using the above instructions, you’ll have 15 minutes to begin reinstalling iOS before your device automatically exits recovery mode. You’ll need to repeat the combination of button presses to put it back into recovery mode if this happens.

You might see the recovery prompt as soon as your device enters this mode. If not, try clicking on your device (on the left sidebar of Finder) to show the recovery prompt.

On the error message, try the Update option first, which will attempt to update your device without erasing anything. If this doesn’t work, you’ll have to choose Restore, which will reinstall iOS and remove everything that was on your iPhone.

Once your iPhone reboots following the restore process, you’ll need to walk through the setup again like it’s a new iPhone. Part of this is logging in with your Apple Account credentials to remove Apple’s Activation Lock. This is a security feature that prevents someone else from using your device if it’s reset without signing out of iCloud.

Because of this, you should never buy a secondhand iPhone if the seller refuses to unlock it in front of you. A reset phone with Activation Lock still enabled will ask for the owner’s Apple Account before you can begin the setup process, making it useless to you without this info.

iPhone Recovery Mode, Made Easy

We’ve seen how to force restart any iPhone and enter recovery mode. It’s a simple process once you know it, but the increasingly confusing button combinations are a bit obtuse. Hopefully, you won’t need to use these often, if ever.

When Apple first released the iPhone, the best way to reset or restore your device was to connect it to a computer running iTunes. But in 2019, Apple discontinued iTunes for the Mac, replacing it with the Music app instead, and iTunes isn’t installed on every Windows PC. So what’s the best way to reset or restore an iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max without using iTunes?

Resetting vs. Restoring an iPhone

People often use “reset” and “restore” interchangeably. However, it’s incorrect to do so; the two words relate to different processes.

Of the two, resetting your device is the lighter approach. It might wipe data off your phone, depending on the reset option you choose, but it doesn’t affect the firmware or the operating system version.

Resetting also offers a more granular list of options. In addition to changing all the settings on your device back to their default state, you can also choose to erase all your content and settings. If you prefer, you can choose to just reset the network settings, keyboard dictionary, Home Screen layout, or location and privacy options, keeping the rest of your data intact.

In contrast, restoring an iPhone is the process you need to undertake if your iPhone is having major problems. For example, perhaps you can’t get your device out of Recovery mode or Device Firmware Update (DFU) mode, or maybe you keep seeing error codes (the most common are 3194, 4013, 4014, 9, and 51).

When you restore an iPhone, it erases all your data and reinstalls the operating system from scratch. You can further subdivide the restore process into two categories: restoring your iPhone to a working state with no data, or recovering a backup of your iPhone data.

How to Reset an iPhone 18 Pro Max Without iTunes

It’s easy to reset an iPhone without iTunes. Assuming your device is working correctly, you can do it from within the phone’s Settings app. To reset your iPhone, follow these steps:

1. Turn on your iPhone.
2. Open the Settings app.
3. Navigate to General > Transfer or Reset iPhone.
4. If you want to erase all your data and reset your iPhone to its factory state, tap on the Erase All Content and Settings option. Otherwise, tap Reset and select the option that best fits your needs.
5. Follow the prompts on the next screens to sign out of your Apple Account, create a backup, or enter your passcode, depending on the reset option you chose.

If you can’t follow these steps because your iPhone 18 Pro Max isn’t working, you’ll need to follow the instructions to restore your iPhone without using iTunes instead.

How to Restore an iPhone Without iTunes on a Mac

If you have a Mac and can’t use iTunes because Apple discontinued it, you can restore your iPhone using Finder instead. The process for this is exactly the same as it used to be for iTunes:

1. Connect your iPhone to your Mac using a USB cable.
2. Open Finder and select your iPhone from the sidebar.
3. If prompted, enter your passcode and tap Trust on your iPhone screen.
4. From the General tab in Finder, click Restore iPhone to completely erase your device and reinstall the software. Alternatively, click Restore Backup to restore data from a previous backup on your Mac.

Depending on the problem with your iPhone 18 Pro Max, you may need to restore the firmware as well. You need to put your iPhone into DFU mode to do this.

How to Restore an iPhone Without iTunes on a Windows PC

Open Apple Devices and select your iPhone in the sidebar. Select Trust [your device] if necessary, then select General. Select Restore and follow the onscreen instructions.

The iPhone 18 Pro Max is not a cheap device, so if you notice that your iPhone’s screen seems to exhibit a yellow tint lately, you’re probably feeling concerned and annoyed because displaying colors accurately should be the smartphone’s basic feature.

Fortunately, the issue can often be resolved quickly by changing some settings. Let’s look at the settings needed to get rid of the yellow tint on your iPhone’s display. We’ll also cover some external causes of the yellow screen and what you can do to solve them.

1. Turn Off True Tone

True Tone is a feature that adapts your iPhone’s screen color and intensity to the light in your surroundings. More often than not, True Tone turns your iPhone’s screen yellow in the process.

To disable this, access the Control Center, touch and hold the Brightness button, and tap True Tone to turn it off.

2. Disable Night Shift

Night Shift increases the warmth of your iPhone display to reduce the blue light emitted by your screen. The feature aims to improve your sleep quality, even when you’re using your iPhone before bed.

If you don’t like the intense yellow tint on your iPhone 18 Pro Max screen, you can simply disable it. Again, access the Control Center, touch and hold the Brightness button, and tap Night Shift to turn it off.

3. Toggle Off Low Power Mode

Low Power Mode helps to conserve battery on your iPhone when you can’t charge it immediately. The prompt automatically pops up when your iPhone’s battery is less than 20 percent.

One of the things Low Power Mode does is dim your iPhone’s display to save battery, but at the same time, it causes the screen to have a yellow tint.

If you’re actively using your iPhone on low battery, it’s better to put up with the yellow tint temporarily. If not, head to Settings > Battery > Power Mode, then toggle off Low Power Mode. Your iPhone should return to its normal color.

4. Disable Auto-Brightness

Auto-Brightness adjusts the brightness of your iPhone’s display depending on the light levels in your environment. This feature is the reason why your iPhone’s screen automatically dims when you’re in a dark room but increases in brightness when you’re outdoors.

Since Auto-Brightness is a display-related setting, it might have also caused the yellow tint on your iPhone 18 Pro Max screen. So, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size. Toggle off Auto-Brightness.

5. Update Your iPhone

iOS updates come with bug fixes and performance improvements. Therefore, it’s best to update your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max to the latest iOS version if you haven’t already.

This may be the solution to remove the yellow tint on your iPhone’s display. Go to Settings > General > Software Update to see if an iOS update is available.

6. Adjust the Color Filters

The above solutions should have resolved the problem by now. However, achieving a pure white tone on your iPhone’s screen by default is tricky, especially if the panel had a warmer tint from the factory. So, if you’re still not satisfied with the slight hint of yellow on your iPhone display, you can adjust the color filters.

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters. Toggle on Color Filters, select Color Tint, and drag the Intensity slider to the far left.

For Hue, you’ll need to experiment a little to see which setting suits your iPhone screen best. Use the colored pencils at the top of the screen as a guide. To remove the yellow tint, the Hue slider should likely hover around the blue and purple colored pencils.

7. Replace Your Screen Protector

We’ve discussed the various iOS settings you can tweak when your iPhone’s screen is yellow. But the yellow tint might be caused by external causes, too.

We probably had the experience of witnessing a scratch line appearing on our screen, looking as if the display itself took damage, but later realizing it was just the screen protector. Similarly, the yellow may not have come from your iPhone’s display but rather due to the discolored screen protector.

Different types of screen protectors come in a wide range of prices. The cheap ones are likely to turn yellow over time. So, if you’ve been using your screen protector for a while now, you can try getting a replacement and see if it solves the problem.

8. Replace Your iPhone’s Case

If you’re using a transparent or light-colored case with your iPhone, it’ll essentially turn yellow over time. When this happens, you may feel that your iPhone’s screen appears slightly yellow no matter what you do because the case frame contributes to the visual effect.

For several months, I used a light-gray silicone case for my iPhone 18 Pro Max. When the phone case turned yellow-gray, I felt that my screen carried a persistent, subtle yellow tint regardless of the display settings I made. Replacing the case helped reduce the screen’s perceived yellow tinge and made the iPhone feel new again.

While there are some steps you can take to prevent your phone case from turning yellow too quickly, there is no way to avoid it completely. Therefore, you can consider a dark-colored iPhone case in the future so that you don’t have to replace it so frequently.

9. Replace the Screen or Upgrade Your iPhone

All the above solutions target iPhone users with screens that give off an overall yellow tone. But what if your iPhone’s screen only has a yellow tint around the edge of the screen?

In this case, it’s most likely a hardware issue and is common when a device has been used for many years.

If the yellow screen is bothering you, it’s best to contact Apple Support or an Apple Authorized Service Provider for further assistance. Depending on the underlying issue, you might need to get an iPhone screen replacement. Alternatively, you can consider if it’s time to upgrade your iPhone.

Get Rid of the Yellow Tint on Your iPhone’s Screen

Most of the time, the yellow tint is an intentional effect due to your iPhone’s settings. Its purpose is to conserve your iPhone’s battery, provide comfort for your eyes, and more. However, if you don’t like having a yellow screen on your iPhone 18 Pro Max, you can easily turn off those features.

Besides settings, it may also be other problems, such as the screen protector or the iPhone screen itself, that cause the yellow tint. For such issues, it’s best to visit the relevant service providers to help you resolve them.

Users often complain about their iPhone’s screen dimming automatically. Usually, there are good reasons for it, like the auto-brightness, True Tone, Night Shift, and battery-saving features.

However, there can be serious hardware issues causing the iPhone 18 Pro Max screen to dim, like overheating. Below, we’ll look at why your iPhone’s screen automatically dims even at full brightness, how you can toggle features to stop it, and whether it’s worth making those changes or not.

1. Auto-Brightness

In most cases, the auto-brightness feature causes the automatic screen dimming on your iPhone 18 Pro Max. It adjusts the screen brightness according to your surrounding light conditions with the help of the ambient light sensor installed near the iPhone’s front-facing camera.

This is why the screen becomes brighter when you’re outside, yet when you’re in the dark, it dims down to save power and avoid eye strain.

Although enabled by default, you can disable auto-brightness on your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max. To do this, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size, scroll to the bottom, and turn off Auto-Brightness.

2. True Tone

Your surrounding’s light also affects the colors. For instance, in warm lights, colors appear more yellow. To fight this and ensure all-time color accuracy, Apple added the True Tone feature to the iPhone, which adjusts screen colors according to your surrounding lights using sensors.

Although an excellent feature that is enabled by default, it can make your screen appear dim (or less saturated) in certain lighting. So, turning it off might solve your dimming problem and fix your iPhone screen’s yellow tint. To do this, go to Settings > Display & Brightness and turn off True Tone.

You can also disable True Tone by opening the Control Center on your iPhone 18 Pro Max, then touching and holding the Brightness button and tapping True Tone.

3. Night Shift

Apple also includes a Night Shift feature on iPhones to reduce the blue light entering your eyes at night time. The feature basically adds an overlay to your display, making it appear warmer.

Night Shift can make the screen appear dim as well. And since it’s usually scheduled to automatically turn on after sunset, the screen dimming effect can seem automatic. You can avoid this by either keeping Night Shift on at all times to reduce blue light or turning it off completely from Settings > Display & Brightness > Night Shift.

4. Auto-Lock

The Auto-Lock feature can be a probable cause of your iPhone’s randomly dimming screen, too. It’s designed to lock your iPhone automatically after a set period of inactivity—like 30 seconds—to prevent other people from accessing it.

So, when only a few seconds of inactivity remain, the screen will dim (indicating that the phone is about to lock itself). And, once the full period is over, the iPhone will lock itself.

However, if your set duration is too short, your screen will often dim—which can be random. Go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock to change the duration.

The longer the set duration to prevent your iPhone screen from going dark, the more your battery will be used, which will be counterproductive if you need to extend battery life.

5. Dark Mode

This feature darkens many of the brightly colored menus, controls, and backgrounds on your iPhone by changing the background color palette to black and dark gray. Although Dark Mode doesn’t affect the iPhone’s brightness, it can make it appear dimmer.

You can try turning it off from Settings > Display & Brightness. Alternatively, you can schedule it for nighttime, along with the Night Shift feature. This will help you keep your screen bright and vibrant throughout the day while intentionally darkening it at night.

6. Attention Aware Features

Apple uses the Face ID sensors on the iPhone to enable Attention Aware features, which dims the screen if you’re not looking at it.

The Auto-Lock and Attention Aware features work together. If you’ve set your Auto-Lock to one minute, the iPhone will lock itself when it hasn’t had your attention for that time. But if you look at the screen, even if you haven’t touched it, Attention Aware will understand that you’re still looking and won’t lock your iPhone even after the set period has passed.

Therefore, if the feature is turned off, it can cause the screen to dim randomly, even when you’re looking at it as the iPhone prepares to lock itself. You can turn it on by going to Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Attention Aware Features.

Doing this will likely fix the problem of your randomly dimming iPhone 18 Pro Max screen when Auto-Lock is enabled.

7. Low Power Mode

The iPhone’s Low Power Mode is a setting that reduces background activity to save power and make your phone last longer.

This feature affects everything from email fetching to visual effects, like the Auto-Lock feature and screen brightness. Hence, this can be another reason why your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max is dimming randomly.

To turn this feature off, go to Settings > Battery > Power Mode and toggle Low Power Mode.

8. Overheating

Overheating is when your iPhone shows a black screen saying that the “iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it,” because its temperature has exceeded the safe range.

Following this message, the iPhone takes measures to reduce its temperature, like using less battery and RAM. This can lead to automatic screen dimming and an overall slower iPhone. Move iPhone to a cooler location out of direct sunlight and wait a few minutes before trying to use iPhone again.

9. Reduce White Point

The Reduce White Point feature sits quietly in Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and is disabled by default. However, if you have turned it on, try disabling it to see if your iPhone’s colors and brightness improve.

This feature is designed to reduce the intensity of the colors on your screen. It can cause your screen to appear dim if enabled.

Unless you’ve recently bought a used iPhone whose previous owner may have activated the feature, it may not be causing the random dimming effect.

10. Hardware Problems

Some users can still face the screen dimming issue on their iPhones despite trying everything. And if you’re one of them, your iPhone likely has some hardware issues. As a final resort, you can try the following:

• Restart your iPhone 18 Pro Max, as it might reset some features and fix the problem.
• Perform a full iPhone factory reset.

If these didn’t work out either, you should contact Apple Support or visit a nearby Apple Store or Apple-authorized service center to get your iPhone’s hardware checked as soon as you can.

Stop Your iPhone’s Screen From Dimming

Apple has certain features baked into iOS to provide the best visual experience for iPhone users. However, these could be causing random dimming effects, which can be annoying. So, try toggling these features on and off, and you’ll likely fix the issue you’re facing.

That said, remember that these features aim to protect your eyes and your iPhone. We suggest you keep them enabled, especially if you have vision problems.

Safari is the native browser on Apple devices. While it’s usually fast, sometimes Safari can be slow or laggy on your iPhone 18 Pro Max. When this happens, it can be bothersome, and some might even download another third-party browser.

If you’re noticing that Safari is running slow on your iPhone, there are several things you can do to speed it up again. Give these tips a try, and hopefully, Safari will be at full speed in no time.

Check Your Internet Speed

Before passing the blame on Safari, it might be a good idea to check your internet speed. That way, you can make sure Safari is the issue and rule out anything else before continuing.

If you’re connected to Wi-Fi, open another computer or device on the same Wi-Fi network, then head to Speedtest’s site and check your internet speed. You won’t want to do this on your iPhone, as Safari issues can slow your connection time, giving you a false negative.

If your internet speed is fast, then Safari is the issue, and it’s time to fix it.

1. Close All Your Safari Tabs

Safari can usually handle a lot of bandwidth and keep many pages open. However, some websites drain Safari data. By closing all the currently open tabs, you can confirm if one of the open websites was using too much data.

To close all the tabs on Safari, open Safari and hold the Tabs button in the bottom right-hand corner. A prompt will appear for you to close all the tabs. Once this appears, hit Close All Tabs. Then, give Safari a try again.

2. Clear Your Browsing History and Data

If clearing the tabs didn’t fix the issue, you can reset Safari and clear up the cache, speeding it up in the process. To clear Safari, head to Settings > Apps > Safari > Clear History and Website Data.

Once you do this, relaunch Safari and see if it’s loading up pages quickly enough. If it’s faster for a little while but begins to slow down again, proceed to the next tip.

3. Check Your iPhone’s Storage

If your iPhone 18 Pro Max storage is almost full, that means it can’t handle much else. Safari, like most apps, uses device storage to store data from the app. And low storage means Safari won’t have enough memory to work.

This is why some users find Safari temporarily faster once they clear their browsing history and data. However, some users might have used so much storage that Safari might not even speed up when you clear the cache.

Luckily, it’s easy to check if this is an issue. All you need to do is head to Settings > General > iPhone Storage and see how much space your iPhone 18 Pro Max has used. And if it’s almost full, you might have to delete some large files.

However, if you don’t want to lose precious data, consider signing up for a paid iCloud plan.

4. Reset Network Settings

When all else fails, you can reset your iPhone’s Network Settings. Doing this will reset all network-related connections on your iPhone, hopefully speeding up Safari in the process. Head to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings to do this.

Once you do this, you’ll need to set up your network connections again. This means re-entering your Wi-Fi passwords. However, it can clear up a lot of bugs, so it is worth a try if all else fails. You can also reset your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max to factory settings as a last resort.

Browse Seamlessly in Safari

Safari comes pre-installed on all Apple devices, including the iPhone and Mac. And since it’s the native browser, it works seamlessly across all your apps and Apple devices.

While switching to a third-party browser like Chrome might seem tempting when Safari is slow or lagging, you’ll miss out on a seamless experience. So, it’s worth taking the time to fix whatever issue you’re facing.

With the storage allocations on smartphones growing larger every year, cloud storage decreasing in price and services such as Google Photos becoming more and more intelligent and convenient, there’s a growing temptation to take masses of photos and simply keep them.

Going through your photo library and pruning out the less impressive shots is a pain (and becomes more of a pain the longer you leave it) and software is getting better at finding the best ones (or the shots of particular people, locations or objects) for you. And who knows, maybe you’ll want that weird shot of your husband eating a sweet some time in the future.

But with all those photos floating around, and with copies of them building up on multiple synced devices and online services, it’s easy to end up with duplicates. And having two or more copies of the same photo really is a waste of storage: there’s no difference and hence no reason at all to keep them both, and there are software solutions out there that can remove the duplicates quickly and easily.

In this article, we explain how to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max.

The manual method

Before we get on to the clever methods, let’s quickly go back over the way you delete photos manually. Open the Photos app and find the images you wish to remove.

Tap a photo, then tap the dustbin icon at the bottom right (or top right in landscape orientation), then confirm. A quicker alternative method is to tap Select at the top right of the Library or album screen, then tap all the images you want to delete, tap the dustbin icon, then confirm.

The Photos app identifies duplicate photos and videos in your photo library in the Duplicates collection. You can merge duplicate photos and videos to save space and clean up your library.

1. Go to the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections.

   

3. Tap Utilities, then tap Duplicates.
4. Tap Merge to combine a set of duplicates, then tap Merge [number] Items.

   

Delete duplicates using a third-party app

There are various apps that can manage this process for you. We’ve tried a free option called Remo Duplicate Photos Remover, but there are plenty more you can try such as the paid-for Duplicate Photos Fixer.

Open Remo and tap Scan, and the app will look for duplicates on your iPhone 18 Pro Max. (You’ll have to give the app access to Photos when it asks, but you don’t have to allow it to send you notifications if you don’t want to.) This takes a while – it took about three minutes for us, but it depends on how many photos you’ve got – and you can switch to a different app while you wait.

When it’s finished, Remo will pop up a message indicating how many exact duplicates it’s found, and the storage they take up. In this case, there was only one: note that the number and storage space reported does not include the ‘originals’. Tap OK.

You can now tap on the yellow boxes to select images and then tap the dustbin icon to delete all selected. Tap the three-dots icon at the top-right then Select All and it will select all but the first instance of each image. You can also tap a picture to see it full-screen, then tap the dustbin icon to delete it.

Once you’ve cleared out the exact duplicates (which ought to be easy), you can move on to the near-duplicates, which are listed under the Similar tab. We’ve got 19 of these – far more.

Again, you tap the yellow box by each set to select all but the first instance, or the three-dots icon then Select All to do the same thing for every set in one go. But for Similar rather than Exact matches we would recommend reviewing on a case-by-case basis.

Running out of space on your phone because it’s full of photos? Want to delete them to make room for something else? Or perhaps you are planning on selling your iPhone or giving it away and want to remove your photos first. In either case you should make sure you have backed up your photos before you delete anything. In this article we’ll show you the simplest way to delete all the photos on an iPhone 18 Pro Max in one go, we’ll also look at how to back them up first, whether deleting photos from your phone will also delete it from iCloud.

We’re also here to help if you don’t want to delete all your photos. We’ll show you how to delete photos but also how to recover them if you delete photos accidentally.

Just a quick word on one of the scenarios mentioned above: If you want to delete all your photos because you are giving your iPhone to someone else just deleting photos will not be enough. You should back up and completely reset your iPhone, restoring it to factory settings.

It’s also worth noting that if you want to mass delete thousands of photos from your iPhone 18 Pro Max in order to free up space on your iPhone you might be better off using iCloud Photos to store all your photos in the cloud, that way you will be able to view all your photos on all your Apple devices and they will only take up a small amount of space on your device. However, if you think that syncing your photos to iCloud means you will be able to delete them from your iPhone you’re wrong! If you delete photos that are stored in iCloud from your iPhone you will actually be deleting them from the cloud. So don’t! More on that below.

How to delete a photo from iPhone

We’ll start by explaining how to delete photos if you aren’t trying to mass delete everything (we’ll cover that later).

1. Open the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Find the photo or video you want to delete. If it’s recently taken you can probably find it by tapping Library and then swiping through your photos. Alternatively, if it’s a screenshot, or a video, or a selfie you could jump to that media type by scrolling down to the Media Types section of Collections.

   

3. If it’s just one photo that you want to delete you can tap on it to select it.
4. The photo will open and you will see the Trash can icon. Tap on that to delete.

   

5. That doesn’t actually delete the photo. Apple has a built-in safeguard so that if you accidentally delete a photo you can easily recover it. If you want to make absolutely sure that the photo is gone go back to Collections.

   

6. Tap the Recently Deleted collection (below Utilities), tap View Album, then unlock your iPhone.

   

7. It will explain that photos and videos are kept for 30 days after which they will be permanently deleted. If you want to go ahead and delete now tap Select, then choose the photo.
8. Now tap the More button, then tap Delete to actually delete it (or Recover if you want it back).

Because Apple doesn’t actually delete your photos you may find that deleting them doesn’t actually save you the space you imagined it would. If you are trying to save space you need to delete your photos and video from Recently Deleted.

How to mass delete photos from iPhone 18 Pro Max

What if you want to delete more than one photo at once? Luckily you don’t need to open each photo individually and tap on the Trash can. You can select multiple photos and delete them all at once.

1. Open Photos on your iPhone and find the first of the photos you want to delete.
2. Before you tap on the photo, tap on Select in the top right.
3. Now you can select as many items as you want. Tap on the photos you want to delete.
4. Once you have selected the photos tap on the Trash can icon in the bottom right.

   

5. Confirm that you want to delete the photos.

Note that if you use iCloud Photos you will see a warning that These photos will be deleted from iCloud Photos on all your devices.

As above this won’t actually delete the photos, you will have to go to Recently Deleted as per the section above to delete them permanently.

Once in Recently Deleted follow these steps to permanently delete the photos:

1. Tap on Select.
2. Choose the photos, tap the More button, then tap Delete.

How to delete lots of photos at once using albums

If you have a lot of photos to delete you might not be keen to select thousands using the method above. In that case this album trick might appeal.

This method can be useful if you want to remove all of a particular image type (screenshot, burst, selfie, Live Photo etc), which are grouped together in albums; but also applies to the albums you create yourself.

1. Go to Collections in Photos and find the album you want to empty. For example, if you want to delete all your Screenshots, tap Collections, scroll down to Media Types, then tap Screenshots.
2. Tap on Select in the top right.
3. Now Select All will appear on the left. Tap on that.

   

4. Assuming you want to delete everything in that album tap on the Trash can icon.
5. If you have iCloud Photos it will explain that you will delete all the photos from the cloud. Tap on Delete if you are happy to delete.

Remember you will also need to delete them from Recently Deleted folder.

Can I delete multiple albums?

Thinking you might be able to save time by deleting a number of albums in one go? Unfortunately it isn’t possible.

You can delete albums, but you are only deleting the album, not the photos inside.

1. Go to the Photos app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Collections, then tap Albums.

   

3. Touch and hold the album you want to delete.
4. Tap Delete Album.

As we said above, this doesn’t actually get rid of the photos inside – it just removes the album, the photos that were in it will remain on your iPhone.

How to delete all photos from an iPhone 18 Pro Max at once

What if you want to delete all the photos on your iPhone in one go. Is there a way?

Now you know how to delete single or multiple photos and videos, and whole albums. But what if you want to delete every single photo and video on your iPhone? It’s possible to do this using a Mac or a PC (and we show how below), the simplest method in our view is to use Google Photos, and we’ll describe how to do that below.

Delete all iPhone photos with Image Capture

Before we talk about Google, Apple does offer a means of deleting your photos via your Mac.

Image Capture is a simple yet useful program that lets you very quickly delete photos permanently from your iPhone. Here’s how.

Note, before you begin this method will not work if you are using iCloud Photos. In that case the delete button will be greyed out and you will see a cloud icon beside your iPhone under Devices.

1. Plug your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max into your Mac using the USB cable (you may need an adapter if your Mac doesn’t have the required port).
2. Open Image Capture on your Mac.
3. Ensure your iPhone knows that it can trust your Mac (usually a popup will appear on your iPhone asking you to confirm that you trust the Mac or you may see a message on your Mac that indicates you should unlock your iPhone).
4. After some time (depending on how many photos are on your iPhone) you’ll see your iPhone photos appear in Image Capture.
5. To delete them all, hit Cmd + A on your keyboard or select them with your mouse and then click the small red circular icon next to Import To at the bottom of the window. You’ll be then prompted to confirm the deletion.

Delete all iPhone photos with Photos on the Mac

You could also use the Photos app on the Mac to delete images from an iPhone. It isn’t as fast as using Image Capture but you’ll have the ability to recover the images more easily should you accidentally delete them.

Again, this won’t work if you are using iCloud Photos but if you aren’t it should allow you to delete the photos.

Delete all iPhone photos with Google Photos

Google Photos is another option.

1. To start, download Google Photos from the App Store.
2. Sign in with your Google account and back up your photo and video library. Depending on the size of your media library, this could take some time.
3. But now the real magic can begin. You see, in addition to providing cloud storage for iOS users, Google also offers the ability to delete all photos and videos from your iPhone that have been backed up in a single tap.
4. To do this, open the Google Photos app, tap your account profile photo or initial, then tap Free up space on this device.
5. It’ll then search your library for photos and videos that have already been backed up to Google Photos, and present you with a final confirmation before removing the items. If you’re sure you want to delete them, tap Delete [x] items from this device, then tap Delete (and give Google Photos permission to delete the photos) and they’ll be removed from your Camera Roll.
6. The final step is to head into the Photos app, access the Recently Deleted folder and delete those same photos and videos. It’s as easy as that.

Windows PC

If you’re on a Windows PC, the process is very straightforward. Plug your iPhone into your PC and ensure you Trust/Allow the PC to access your iPhone.

Once connected, navigate to your iPhone’s DCIM photo folder within File Explorer and select your photos you wish to delete, or Ctrl + A to select all. Now delete them by right-clicking or Shift + Del to permanently delete them from your iPhone.

How to back up photos before deleting them

As we mentioned at the beginning, before you delete your photos you will want to make sure you have backed them up.

We also recommend using iCloud Photos to sync your photos to the cloud.

How to get photos back from Recently Deleted

We’ve mentioned this a few times already, but just in case you have just deleted something by accident, here’s how to get it back again.

1. Navigate to Photos > Collections > Recently Deleted, then tap View Album and unlock your iPhone.
2. Tap Select, then choose the photo you want to get back.
3. Tap the More button, then tap Recover.

To recover multiple photos at once, tap Select from the Recently Deleted screen, then tap the ones you want to get back, tap the More button, then tap Recover.

How to permanently delete photos

If you want to completely delete a photo rather than keep it in your ‘Recently Deleted’ folder (where it will continue to take up space), you’ll need to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Photos > Collections > Recently Deleted, then tap View Album and unlock your iPhone.
2. Tap Select in the top right corner.
3. Choose the image again.
4. Tap the More button, then tap Delete.

Summary

• Offload or remove unused iPhone apps to free up storage space easily without losing personal data.
• Deleting old photos, videos, and messages stored in both native and third-party apps will get you more space than you think, too.
• Other data you can consider clearing include system data and the browser cache on your iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Photos, videos, and apps take up an iPhone’s storage space quickly. Even though you can’t increase your internal storage space with an SD card, there are still several ways to free up space on your iPhone 18 Pro Max.

1. Offload or Delete Unused iPhone Apps

Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage to get a quick view of the storage space used on your device. You’ll see a list of apps sorted by the amount of storage each occupies.

Tap an app on the list to view detailed info about its storage usage. At the bottom, you can choose one of two options: Offload App or Delete App.

• Delete App removes the app and every bit of its data. It is the same as uninstalling the app from the Home Screen.
• Offload App deletes the app’s core files but keeps your personal data. This is useful for heavier apps or games (like PUBG Mobile) if you plan to use them soon but need the space now. It lets you remove the app; your important data will be there when you reinstall it later.

Here are three strategies you can follow:

• Remove rarely used apps: Go down the list to pick the lowest-hanging fruits. For instance, select the apps you rarely use and can safely offload or delete.
• Delete unnecessary files: If you don’t want to do either, go to the individual apps and delete unnecessary files they save. For instance, you might erase large iMessage attachments or remove some downloaded songs from Spotify.
• Uninstall completed games: Delete games you’ve completed, as game files eat up a lot of space. They’re sometimes more of a space hog than photos and videos, which we will nix next.

2. Delete Old Photos and Videos on Your iPhone 18 Pro Max

Videos and photos occupy a lot of space on most people’s iPhones. To clear them and make extra space, you can start by deleting duplicates and bad photos with the help of a photo deleting app.

If you’re diving into the Photos app to clean up your photo library, remember to empty the Recently Deleted album afterward. Not clearing this album will cause the issue where your iPhone photos still use up space even after they’re deleted.

So, tap Collections, tap the Recently Deleted collection (below Utilities), tap View Album, then unlock your iPhone. Tap Select, choose the items, tap the More button, then tap Delete.

We also recommend enabling iCloud Photos to upload your photos and videos to the cloud and save space on your device. Afterward, it’s best to go to Settings > [Your Name] > iCloud > Photos > iPhone Storage and select Optimize iPhone Storage to gain even more space on your iPhone.

Alternatively, you can simply copy them from your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max to your computer and use the computer as a primary backup. Then, delete the media from your device.

3. Avoid Taking HDR Photos and Videos With Your iPhone’s Camera

Tack-sharp iPhone photographs and videos taken with High Dynamic Range (HDR) mode come at a price—they take up more space than their normal counterparts.

You can turn off HDR for videos but not photos. Go to Settings > Camera > Record Video and toggle off HDR Video.

4. Optimize Your iPhone’s Messaging Apps

SMS, iMessage, and unattended spam messages can add up over time. In the Messages app, you can limit the number of messages stored by automatically deleting them after some time.

Go to Settings > Apps > Messages > Keep Messages and choose either 30 days or 1 year instead of Forever. Tap Delete when you see the confirmation popup.

You can free up space on your iPhone 18 Pro Max by optimizing storage on third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp. You can first check how much storage each message thread uses by heading to WhatsApp > Settings > Storage and Data > Manage Storage.

Then, tap each contact to view all media (sorted by file size) that’s taking up space in your chat and selectively delete them from there.

You can also tap into one of your chat conversations in the Chats tab, tap your contact’s name to access their contact info, then scroll down to select Clear Chat to delete all your past texts with that person.

5. Use External Storage for Your iPhone

iPhone users can also plug in a flash drive and use it with the revamped Files app. It’s one of the ways to get more storage on your iPhone.

Most thumb drives and memory card readers with built-in USB-C connectors should work fine. You can use the extra space to store music, video, and photos using the drive’s additional storage. Then, put the Files app to work as a media viewer.

Apple states that exFAT, FAT32, FAT, HFS+, and APFS formats are supported, but Microsoft’s NTFS format is not.

6. Clear System Data Storage on Your iPhone

The System Data storage you will spot on the iPhone Storage screen is a holding area for cache files of all kinds, especially from streaming services, Siri voices, and log files.

Our tips above should help to free up significant space on your iPhone, especially after you remove unused apps and declutter your Photos app.

Still, if you’re critically low on storage or need to regain an extra bit of space to quickly store a few photos or install an app, one last tip is to wipe your iPhone’s browser caches.

To clear Safari’s cache, go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Clear History and Website Data. Select All History and tap Clear History. Repeat similar steps for other browser apps on your iPhone.

Of course, you can also opt to start afresh by factory resetting your iPhone 18 Pro Max. Keep your iPhone data backed up, then start from scratch with a better plan to re-organize your device.

In the future, we highly recommend buying an iPhone with more storage space if you plan to shoot lots of photos and videos, play games, or save music to your device for offline enjoyment.

Summary

• Back up your iPhone 18 Pro Max before resetting to avoid losing data and settings.
• Check your two-factor authentication settings to avoid locking yourself out of your account.
• Reset your device through the Settings menu or using a computer if needed. The prompts will guide you through the process.

Whether you need to erase your iPhone because you’re selling it or are trying a reset to fix a problem, it’s not difficult to do. Here’s a complete guide on how to factory reset your iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone 18 Pro Max.

Preparing Your iPhone for a Factory Reset

Modern versions of iOS simplify the factory reset process because they handle several important steps at once, rather than requiring you to do them beforehand. Still, there are a few important points to be aware of before you jump into the reset.

Make sure you know your device’s passcode and your Apple Account login before continuing. You can reset your Apple Account password if needed.

Back Up Your iPhone

The most important preliminary step before a reset is backing up your iPhone 18 Pro Max. A backup allows you to restore almost everything on your phone to the way it was, so you don’t have to start from nothing. This is vital whether you’re upgrading to a new phone or resetting yours as a troubleshooting step.

Go to the Settings app on your iPhone. Tap [your name], tap iCloud, then tap iCloud Backup. Turn on Back Up This iPhone.

Check Two-Factor Authentication Settings

Another important consideration is making sure you don’t lock yourself out of your account. Apple’s two-factor authentication (2FA) requires a code sent to your trusted Apple devices or phone numbers when you log into your Apple Account. This can pose a problem if the device you’re resetting is your only 2FA option.

If you have another Apple device where you’re already signed into your account with 2FA, you can use that to get a code after resetting your iPhone 18 Pro Max. Otherwise, make sure you have a secondary trusted phone number or security key registered to your account.

To check this, head to Settings on your iPhone and tap your name at the top of the list to open your Apple Account settings. Choose Sign-In & Security > Two-Factor Authentication to check your trusted phone numbers and Security Keys. If you need to add one, do so here.

If You’re Not Keeping Your Device

In case you’re factory resetting your iPhone to sell it, give it away, or trade it in, you should take some extra steps to ensure a smooth transfer to your next device and avoid problems for the new owner of your old one. This includes potential extra steps like unpairing your Apple Watch or AirPods, signing out of iMessage, and removing your SIM card.

When you’re performing a factory reset to troubleshoot issues, you don’t need to worry about these steps since you’re keeping the device.

How to Reset Your iPhone 18 Pro Max to Factory Settings

Just like backing up your device, there are two ways you can erase your iPhone: on the device itself or using a computer. We recommend resetting using Settings on your device unless you need to use the computer method for some reason.

On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone. If you’re resetting this device because you’re moving to a new iPhone, tap Get Started under Prepare for New iPhone here and follow the instructions. Otherwise, tap Erase All Content and Settings.

The Reset menu allows you to set various other options to their defaults without fully erasing your iPhone.

Once you tap this, you’ll see an Erase This iPhone page with a summary of what will happen when you continue. Importantly, erasing your iPhone turns off Find My and Activation Lock as part of the process. Unlike older versions of iOS, you don’t need to sign out of your Apple Account separately to avoid Activation Lock preventing the new owner from using the phone.

If you have an eSIM, you can choose to erase your eSIM or keep it. If you’re keeping this phone, keep them; if you’re selling it or trading it in, erase them. Consult your carrier for guidance on how to move your eSIM to your new phone.

The next steps will prompt you to create a backup, which you can skip if you’ve already done so.

Finally, you’ll need to enter your iPhone’s passcode (and Screen Time passcode if applicable), then enter your Apple Account password to sign out of your account. Provide final confirmation with the last Erase iPhone prompt, and your device will start the factory reset process. There’s no going back once you’ve tapped this.

As your phone resets, you’ll see an Apple logo with a progress bar. Once your data has been wiped, your iPhone will restart.

How to Reset Your iPhone Using a Computer

In case you need to factory reset your iPhone and the convenient on-device method doesn’t work, you can use Finder (on a Mac) or the Apple Devices app (on Windows) to reset.

When using this method, you’ll first need to sign out of Find My on your device to disable Activation Lock. To do this, go to Settings, tap your name at the top, then choose Find My. Select Find My iPhone, then turn off the slider on the following page. Confirm your Apple Account password, then you’re ready to reset using a Windows PC or Mac.

Connect your iPhone to your computer using a USB cable. You may need to approve the connection on your iPhone if you’ve never used it with this computer before.

On a Mac, open Finder and select your device from Locations in the sidebar. Make sure you’re on the General tab and hit the Restore iPhone button under the Software section.

On Windows, open the Apple Devices app, expand the panel with your device’s name on the left side, and make sure you’re on the General tab. In the top box under Software, click Restore iPhone.

If you didn’t turn Find My off, you’ll see a warning that you must do this before proceeding. Assuming that’s done, click Restore (or Restore and Update if there’s a new OS update available) to confirm. This will start the reset process on your device.

After Resetting Your iPhone: Shut Down or Restore

Once the reset finishes, when you see the Hello screen, you’re clear to turn off the device if you’re not keeping it. It’s ready for the next owner to set up.

If you’re keeping your phone, go through the steps of setting up the device again. During this process, restore your iPhone backup to pick up where you left off.

That’s all it takes to factory reset your iPhone. With a backup, you don’t have to worry about moving to a new phone or resetting yours to fix problems.