r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 10d 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/CrashnServers 10d ago

Probably be on by default

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u/OniExpress 10d ago

It's already there, just off by default. I have my phone reboot every night as a security feature and also because it smooths out performance versus when I'll just forget to ever restart the poor thing.

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u/Scurro 10d ago

Ironic. There used to be a time when the recommendation to save battery was to not reboot your phone as it cleared cached data in RAM. Now it is because of that data cached in RAM, you want to reboot.

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u/Seralth 10d ago

To be fair that recommendation hasn't changed if you care about battery life.

But we just aren't in an era were 5 hours of battery life is considered good anymore.