Yes, unplugging a residential refrigerator from the electrical wall outlet for approximately five to ten minutes effectively performs a hard reset on the electronic control boards and microprocessors that govern automated ice maker harvest cycles, optical sensors, and water valve timing. This short power interruption allows internal control capacitors to discharge fully, wiping out temporary software glitches, frozen error cycles, or erratic control states. You can troubleshoot electronic glitches easily. You can verify that your reset procedure was successful when plugging the refrigerator back into the wall outlet causes the digital control board to reboot, initiating a diagnostic test cycle that resets the ice maker's mechanical arm and restores normal operation.
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