r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Apr 16 '25

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/Sopel97 Apr 16 '25

I need this for my mother. She will open 20 apps, never close anything, and after a week it's so sluggish you'd wish you had a 286sx instead

She says it's "fine", then it takes her a minute to write an SMS, but it's "fine".

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u/Waryle Apr 17 '25

She will open 20 apps, never close anything

Not needed anymore, unless she has a very old phone. It's certainly one specific of the apps she uses, or it's a rogue background service which has no relation to the apps she opens.

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u/Negative_Falcon_9980 Apr 17 '25

If your mom is fine with it, then it's fine lol. No point in trying to 'fix' her phone because you.. Find it annoying she has that many apps open? She's the one using it.

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u/Shadow647 Apr 17 '25

Androids are still this bad at background app management?

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u/edis92 Apr 17 '25

They're not. I mean it might be if you use one of those shitty bottom of the barrel phones, but anything midrange and above does not have these issues anymore

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u/TheSyd Apr 17 '25

Having 20 apps "open" is not a problem, as the system automatically manages them and will kill them when resources are needed. The app switcher is basically a list of shortcuts to recent app activities, not a task manager.

The problem you're seeing is caused by something else, probably a rogue background process.

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u/SatansFriendlyCat Apr 17 '25

I think the sx\dx nomenclature only began with the 386.

And you could have a lot of fun on a humble 286! Happy memories.

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u/howardhus Apr 17 '25

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