That name makes it sound scary, but its exaggeration in most cases. Its not as if its going to explode or anything. The White Screen of Death is not necessarily a death sentence for your i. Phone. These steps can fix it in many cases. Causes of the i. Phone White Screen. An i. Phone White Screen can be caused by a number of things, but the two most common are Failed software update or jailbreak When you try to update the i. Phones operating system and the update fails, sometimes youll see the white screen. This is even more common when trying to jailbreak your i. Phone and something causes the jailbreak to fail. Hardware problem If software isnt the culprit, the white screen is often caused by the cable that connects the i. Phones motherboard to the screen coming loose or breaking. In some cases, this is simply the result of a hardware failure. In others, the connector comes loose after the phone has been dropped. Triple Finger Tap. This wont solve the problem in most cases, but theres an outside chance that you dont really have a White Screen of Death. Instead, you may have accidentally turned on screen magnification and you may be zoomed super close in on something white, making it look like a white screen. For more on this phenomenon, read My i. Phone Icons Are Large. Whats Happening To fix magnification, hold three fingers together and then use them to double tap the screen. If your screen is magnified, this will bring it back to the standard view. Hard Reset the i. Phone. Often the best step in any i. Phone troubleshooting process is to restart the i. Phone. In this case, you need a slightly more powerful restart called a hard reset. This is like a restart but doesnt require you to be able to see or touch anything on your screen which youll need if youve got a white screen with nothing on it. It also clears more of the i. Phones memory dont worry, you wont lose your data. To perform a hard reset Hold down both the Home button and the onoff button at the same time on the i. Phone 7 series models, hold down the onoff and volume down buttons, not Home. Keep holding until the screen flashes and the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the i. Phone start up like normal. Hold Down Home Volume Up Power. If a hard reset didnt do the trick, theres another combination of buttons thats worked for many people Hold down the Home button, the volume up button, and the power sleepwake button all at once. It may take a while, but keep holding until the screen turns off. Keep holding, until the Apple logo appears. When the Apple logo has shown up, you can let go of the buttons and let the i. Phone start up like normal. Try DFU Mode and Restore From Backup. If none of the first three options worked, your next step is to try putting the i. Phone into DFU Mode. Disk Firmware Update DFU Mode is a way to get around whatever software problems you may be having and reinstall the i. OS on the i. Phone. To use it Connect your i. Phone to your computer Press the sleepwake button for about 3 seconds. Press both the onoff and Home buttons or volume down, on the i. Phone 7 series for about 1. Let go of the onoff button, but keep pressing the Home or volume down button for another 5 seconds or so. If the screen turns from white to black, youre in DFU Mode. At this point, you can use i. Tunes to restore your i. Phone from backup. If None of This Works. If youve tried all of these steps and still have the problem, youve likely got an issue that you cant fix. You should contact Apple to make an appointment at your local Apple Store for support. Fixing an i. Pod touch White Screen. This article is about fixing an i. Phone White Screen, but the i. Pod touch can have the same problem. Luckily, the solutions for an i. Pod touch White Screen are the same. The i. Pod touch and i. Phone share many of the same hardware components and run the same operating system, so everything mentioned in this article can help fix an i. Pod touch white screen.