{"id":48358,"date":"2025-07-04T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48358"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:56:11","slug":"ios-26-recovery-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/ios-26-recovery-assistant\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Recovery Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/23\/ios-26-recovery-assistant\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/23\/ios-26-recovery-assistant\/\"><p>iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to all compatible iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state, with no Mac or PC required.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/iOSBeta\/comments\/1l7jrn8\/comment\/mx0qn68\/\">Reddit post<\/a>, Recovery Assistant can help you return an iPhone to a working state with help from another Apple device, such as an iPad. This process can be initiated through the menu in the top-right corner of the Recovery mode on the affected iPhone. On the other Apple device, you can follow the on-screen steps to download and install a newer iOS version on the iPhone that is in Recovery mode, to help revive it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It sounds like iOS automatically opens Recovery, if needed, but there&rsquo;s no way to manually bring it up like with macOS Recovery.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/ios-26-developer-beta-2\/\">iOS 26 Developer Beta 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to all compatible iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state, with no Mac or PC required.[&#8230;]According to a Reddit post, Recovery Assistant can help you return an iPhone to a working state with help from another Apple device, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-04T20:56:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"9ce642ad-0bd7-49b6-a931-124a3b3e48b6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-04T20:56:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AnOZCrQvXSbapMRJKOz5Itg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2741,2791],"class_list":["post-48358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-ios-recovery"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48359,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48358\/revisions\/48359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}