An internet recovery option for iOS devices could be coming soon

The option to restore a MacOS system from the internet has been around for years, providing a helpful possibility for restoration of the operating system from Apple servers without the need of a macOS boot disk or recovery partition. Unfortunately, if your iPhone or iPad suddenly stopped working due to, for example, a faulty update, in order to restore the system, you need to connect the device to a Mac or a PC with iTunes.

However, this may be changing in the near future - , included in the code for iOS 13.4 beta, that might allow over-the-internet recovery of an iOS device. The feature ...