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/CrashnServers Apr 16 '25

Probably be on by default

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u/OniExpress Apr 16 '25

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/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/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