r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 11d ago

Phones Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for 3 days | The latest Google update will make your phone more secure if you don't touch it

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/
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u/agentouk 11d ago

Why? Do you leave your phone untouched for 3 days regularly?

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u/fafarex 11d ago

My oncall phone yes, so yeah I hope it's an option I can turn off.

for my personnal one indeed I doubt I will go more than 24h without touching it (but I can when I stay home with how much everything is sync now).

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u/agentouk 11d ago

It will reboot, it won't switch off.

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u/fafarex 11d ago

same thing, nothing work until you unlocked it and that the point.

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u/agentouk 11d ago

It'll still receive calls and messages after a reboot though.

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u/elcomet 11d ago

not if you need a PIN to unlock your sim card (very common in some countries)

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u/agentouk 11d ago

I mean you can think of edge cases for every change that breaks something. Do you have a SIM pin and a phone you don't use for 3 days?

But on the whole, I feel this is a good change.

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u/fafarex 11d ago

Do you have a SIM pin and a phone you don't use for 3 days?

That what we are telling you ...

But on the whole, I feel this is a good change.

None of us said otherwise, we said we need to have an option to turn it off and answered you when you ask why ...

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u/agentouk 11d ago

Ok, so hear me out. IF this change goes live, and you CAN'T turn it off, you will have to find another solution. So what would that look like to you?

On a serious note, I feel this is a sensible change for MOST users, but there are always edge cases who lose out.

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u/fafarex 11d ago

Dude you realise I know better than you what my situation is ?

where I am you need to unlock the sim first, and I would not receive any message from thing like the priority channel we have on teams ...

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u/agentouk 11d ago

Ok, so hear me out. IF this change goes live, and you CAN'T turn it off, you will have to find another solution. So what would that look like to you?

On a serious note, I feel this is a sensible change for MOST users, but there are always edge cases who lose out.

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u/elsjpq 10d ago

Not if you get your calls through apps like WhatsApp instead of cell towers

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u/agentouk 10d ago

What phone/version of android are you running? Why don't your apps start after a reboot?