How to Restart, Force Restart, and Shut Down iPad Mini 6

Want to know how to restart, turn off or force restart iPad Mini 6? If you’re not familiar with Apple devices without a home button, you may not know how to perform these common tasks on your new mini tablet.

The new iPad Mini 6 has been redesigned to resemble a small iPad Pro or iPad Air, with thin bezels, meaning there’s no home button on the device. This also means that there are new approaches to force restarting the iPad Mini 6, restarting the 6th generation iPad Mini, and shutting down the device. Once you learn the steps and follow them a few times, you will find that the procedure is quite simple and easy to remember.

How to Force Restart iPad Mini 6

Force restarting iPad Mini 6 is done with a sequence of button presses, here’s how it works:

1. Press and release Volume Up
2. Press and release Volume Down
3. Press and hold the Power/Lock button until the Apple logo appears on the screen, indicating that the iPad Mini has been force restarted.

That’s it, you’ve force restarted your iPad Mini 6!

Forced restart is often used for troubleshooting, such as if the iPad Mini is frozen, an app is frozen, or some other general misbehavior occurs.

One thing to note about the 6th generation iPad Mini’s forced restart procedure is that it’s the same for all other modern Apple devices with thin bezels and either using Face ID or just not having Home buttons, including iPad Pro, iPad. Air, as well as all modern iPhone models with Face ID. In other words, once you remember the steps for the new iPad Mini, you can transfer them to any other modern Apple device running iOS or iPadOS that has the same general design.

If you’re unfamiliar with the hardware buttons on the iPad Mini 6, here’s what they are.

The power/lock button also has Touch ID on the iPad Mini 6, similar to the new iPad Air design.

How to reset iPad Mini 6

The standard restart of the 6th generation iPad Mini is as simple as turning the device off and then on again.

1. Press and hold the Power button and Volume Up buttons at the same time until the Slide to Power off option appears on the screen.
2. Swipe on “Slide to Power Off” to turn off your iPad Mini 6.
3. After a moment or two, when the screen goes dark, hold down the power button to turn your iPad Mini 6 back on.

And this is how you initiate a standard restart on an iPad Mini 6. You simply turn off the device and then turn it back on.

This process is obviously quite simple too, but knowing how to use it is perhaps not as important as the force restart procedure, since many people only restart their device when a problem occurs, and a force restart may be more appropriate for this situation.

How to turn off iPad Mini 6

Turning off the iPad Mini 6 is also simple, it’s just the first half of the restart process:

1. Press and hold the power button and volume up buttons together until the “Slide to Power Off” screen appears.
2. Swipe on “Slide to Power Off” to turn off your iPad Mini 6.

Now the iPad Mini 6 is turned off and off. When the device is turned off, the internal battery should last longer, which can be useful for things like storage or travel.

Another option is to turn off the device through Settings, which does not require the use of any physical buttons.

So that’s it, now you know how to turn off and on, force restart and restart iPad Mini 6 without Home buttons. And again, these are the same general steps for restarting and force restarting on any modern iPhone or iPad without a home button or with Face ID, so learn the process for one device and you’ve effectively learned it for all of them, even if their physical design and size are different.