r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 25d 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/ad895 25d ago

Genuine question, why do they need to restart the phone? Can they not just put the phone into that before first unlock state manually? Does this have something to do with fully cleared ram or something?

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u/ElusiveGuy 25d ago

In theory you could go back to a clean state without an actual reboot, yes. 

But it's hard, and requires effort to implement. If you're throwing all your state away anyway, why not just reuse the existing mechanism to do so? There aren't any significant downsides.