Restarting your Pixel 6a can be somewhat confusing if you aren’t familiar with using the smartphone. To see how you can properly reset this Google device, you can take a look at this tutorial from Seeking Tech.
Why you should restart your Pixel 6a
Restarting your Google Pixel 6a should provide the following benefits:
- Close all opened apps.
- Clear out any lingering processes.
- Free up other hardware resources.
- Refresh your wireless connections.
Google recommends that you restart your Pixel 6a occasionally so that your smartphone will be able to run efficiently.
How to restart your Pixel 6a
In order to restart your Google Pixel 6a, we recommend that you take the following steps:
1. To start off, you first need to get to the power menu.
The fastest way to do so is to press and hold both the power and volume up buttons at the same time.
If you have a hard time trying to open the power menu by using the power and volume up buttons, then you can change to a setting where you only need to hold the power button. If you are interested in doing so, then you need to do the following:
- Go to the Settings App.
- Inside of Settings, scroll down the list and then select System.
- From the System menu, you then need to select Gestures.
- After getting to the Gestures menu, you then need to tap the “Press and hold power button” option.
- Now that you are in the “Press and hold power button” menu, you need to make sure that the “Hold for Assistant” option is disabled.
For more information about the “Press and hold power button” setting, you can check out this post.
2. With the power menu opened, you can then tap the Reset option.
3. The smartphone will then show a Restarting screen before it reboots.
4. Once the phone has rebooted, you should be able to start using normally again.
How to restart your Pixel 6a into safe mode
You can also restart your Google Pixel 6a in safe mode. In order to do so, press and hold the Power Off option or the Restart option in the power menu.
To exit out of the safe mode, you can tap the Restart option to reboot your Google Pixel 6a back to its normal mode.
To learn more about the safe mode for this phone, you can take a look at this article.