Hi Guys, I managed to make my iPhone 7 work again from the “Press Home to Upgrade” screen while the home button is broken. I tried many times with the restoration and update so I’m not sure how it happened and not sure the steps below will 100% work for you.
I have a Mac running OS X 10.15.4 and an iPhone 7. iTunes is no longer with the latest OS X . So, I used Finder to do all these steps.
Here is what I did:
# Plug iPhone (showing “Press Home to Upgrade” ) to the Mac
# Long Hold Volume Down & Power Buttons-> iPhone will be shown in Folder which means the iPhone is in Recovery Mode
# In Finder -> Select iPhone -> Update (I’m not quite sure if I updated the phone successfully or not)
# Put the phone in Recovery Mode again -> Open Finder -> Select iPhone -> Restore iPhone to the Original Settings and Latest iOS
# After “Restore” -> Turn on the phone -> Finder -> iPhone -> Configure Accessibility -> Use Voice Over -> Now you can double tap the words to “slide to open” your iPhone.
# In Finder -> Backups -> Restore Backup
# After “Restore Backup” you should see the setup screen like factory reset, but not the “Press Home to Upgrade” screen, and the Voice Over and Assitive Touch are still there, and the data is restored back the phone.
Hope it helps.