Performing a factory reset is a good remedy to the problems that you are facing with your iPhone. but one big caveat with performing a factory reset and then restoring the iPhone with your data can be a long time-consuming task. It depends on the amount of data you have, but on average restoring an iPhone completely can take around 3-4 hours.

Also, before you perform factory data reset, make sure that you have taken a backup of your data otherwise it won’t be able to restore anything.

How Long Does it take to restore an iPhone?

To give you an idea, for a 100 MBPS internet plan, it will take around 1 to 4 hours to restore from iCloud backup. The same amount of data can be restored within 15 to 30 minutes if you do it offline using iTunes.

To restore from iTunes, you need to take a backup of your iPhone on iTunes itself. The basic restore time of an iPhone is roughly 30 minutes, but the whole process depends on the amount of data that the backup has.

A lot of different factors are involved on which the amount of time to restore an iPhone is dependent. These factors are- the amount of data to be restored, whether the content that you are restoring on your iPhone is a big file or a lot of small files.

How Often Do You Backup Your Device?

If you regularly take a backup of your iPhone, then surely it will take less time to restore when compared to a device that has never been backed up.

This is why we recommend you always take a backup of your iPhone once every week or every two weeks.

The Type of Backup you are restoring to

This factor depends a lot on the amount of time your iPhone will take to restore the data. There are two options to take a backup of your iPhone. One is iCloud sync for backup and the other one is using iTunes to take a backup of your iPhone.

Creating a backup and restoring it using iTunes will be significantly faster than doing the same on iCloud. So, if you are in a hurry or doesn’t have much time to spare, go with the iTunes backup method. All you need to do is connect your iPhone to your computer via USB cable and open iTunes on the computer to start taking backup.

To start the restoration process, you need to click on the iTunes tab and then click on the restore button. Select your device and then confirm your restoration requester by clicking on the restore button.

Why Does the process take long?

Restoring with the help of iTunes will also lead to the installation of iOS again. This means you can only start the restoration process of your iPhone on iTunes, once you have downloaded the new iOS file.

It means, that restoration of the iPhone via iTunes also installs iOS and then starts restoring your data. This is why it takes more time to restore.

Amount of Data on your iPhone

If your device has a lot of media files like images and videos, then it will surely take a lot of time to backup and restore your iPhone. We would advise having a lesser number of media files so that it is easier to backup and restore the files on your iPhone.

Internet Speed

Lastly, it also depends on the speed of your internet. As it will decide with what speed your data from your iPhone will be uploaded to iCloud. Then while restoring it will download the data from iCloud to your iPhone depending on the download speed of your internet.

Conclusion

To conclude, on average the restoration time of an iPhone is around 1 to 4 hours depending on several factors which are mentioned above.