I'm about to factory reset an iPad with a broken home button. I've been using AssistiveTouch in place of the button. In iOS 10, unlocking requires the home button, so I have to use AssistiveTouch every time I turn the iPad on. My question is—if I factory reset it, is there a part of the iOS 10 setup screen that requires the home button to proceed? If I reset, AssistiveTouch will not be enabled and I won't be able to enable it until the iPad is finished being set up. This could make the device unusable.
IOS – Does the iPad setup wizard require a home button in iOS 10
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No, you need to wipe the entire device using the settings found under Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Contents and Settings. Simply deleting items from iOS applications does not provide any kind of secure deletion, and those files can easily be recovered (although that will be harder and harder as those blocks get overwritten in time).
This provides a one-pass secure delete call that can be liked to OS X's "Secure Empty Trash." While most 3rd party software won't be able to recover your data, government units have far more sophisticated tools that can retrieve data from far worse cases (even physically damaged storage).
This feature was introduced in iOS 2.0 and you can read more about it over at AppleInsider.
You should first try reseting the phone.
If that doesn't work, a few people had success in this Apple discussion thread with signing into their account on a different phone that did not have the latest version of iOS on it.
So try signing into your account and setting your security questions from a friends phone. Then of course, remember to log off.
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The first thing you have to do is unlock the device, which requires you to press the home button.
A thread on Apple Support Communities has a possible workaround, but I can't verify it:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7667716