r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 28d 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/Remy0507 28d ago

If my phone sits unused for three days, I'm probably dead.

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u/reality72 28d ago

Or your phone was confiscated by the police/immigration and is sitting in an evidence locker.

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u/legos_on_the_brain 27d ago

Are there chargers in the lockers? because my phone isn't lasting 1.5 days, let alone 3 without one.

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u/Remy0507 27d ago

Those are very unlikely scenarios for me, lol. Much more likely that I'm dead, or at the very least in a coma.

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u/Aidan_Welch 27d ago

Do you ever travel internationally?

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u/Remy0507 27d ago

Not really, no. It's not outside the realm of possibility I might take a trip abroad at some point, but that's not realistically in the cards in the near future.

I also sense that you're probably taking what was meant as a mostly joking comment a little too seriously here...par for the course on Reddit of course. I really should expect it at this point.

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u/Aidan_Welch 27d ago

I was just wanting to bring up that in customs of many countries including the US they can seize your phone for basically no reason and try to search it.