What does restoring your iphone do? - 1

What does restoring your iphone do?
ok so i went to at&t today to tell them that my phone isn't turning on so the told me to restore it but what exactly does restoring my iphone 4s do? Does it delete all my photos? Apps? Any data? Please it is urgent!

It wipes everything on the phone to factory settings.

Yeah that's the last resort, it wipes everything.

You can try a hard reset, that often works.
http://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone

Did you have cloud backup on?
If you did a lot of it should be stored there, depending on what you had it set to save.

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  • When you sync your iphone to your computer does it copy everything onto your pc? I have broke my iphone to the point where it is un repairable, i only sync my iphone the other day to my pc does this mean everything what was on my iphone was copied and saved to it? Or have i lost everything?
  • What happens if you unplug your iPhone 4 while it is restoring? I was restoring my phone because I forgot my passcode. After it got done restoring it asked me if I wanted to restore all of my pictures, contacts, music, etc my little brother unplugged it not knowing what he was doing. What is going to happen to it now? p.s. As soon as he did it I plugged it back in immediately.
  • What does restoring your iphone do? - 2 Ok so i went to at&t today to tell them that my phone isn't turning on so the told me to restore it but what exactly does restoring my iphone 4s do? Does it delete all my photos? Apps? Any data? Please explain!