A hard reset is usually the last resort for iPhone 8 users as it deletes everything off the phone and puts it back to how it was when it left the factory. You may want to hard reset your iPhone, also referred to as a ‘factory reset’ for several reasons.
If you find your iPad is frozen, become unresponsive, or has stopped working during a software update, putting it into recovery mode might help to fix the issue. Putting an iPad into recovery mode allows you to easily reset it, or re-install the iOS.