TL;DR:
Restarting your phone once a week can help improve performance and security.- this is the same for routers and it’s commonly known as a power refresh
I wonder if the regular updates mine does count.
Feels like I need to reboot my iPhone daily in order to keep applications and tabs from being terminated from out of memory issues as quickly.
“you do need to restart your phone regularly to rid it of demons”
typo: “daemons”, not “demons”.
Miners. Not minors! (Galaxy Quest)
Samsung phones have an option of scheduled autorestart; I have mine set to restart once every week at a scheduled time.
My iPhone 13 mini‘s battery is so small that I involuntarily restart it at least once every two weeks
iPhone batteries are small in general. My GF’s iPhone se (don’t ask me which gen) barely lasted half a day, and took hours to charge. So a couple of years ago I bought her a Z Flip 3 for her birthday because all the girls in the Korean shows she watches had that phone at the time. Now her battery actually lasts a full day, and the phone charges to full in 45 minutes.
The larger iPhones easily last a day. The SE (any gen) are fairly small and thin and don’t have very large batteries. The 12 and 13 mini are also very small and thus don’t have much battery life. If you have a regular sized iPhone or even a Max, battery life is fine, on the bigger ones good even.
I’m just going to assume that you’re right because I know nothing about Apple devices and their capabilities.
I’m doubtful. I wanna hear more from security experts.
Update your spyware regularly
iphones just do weird shit after a while so that you can’t go on without a restart. truly smart
GrapheneOS has an option to restart the phone after a given time without any successful unlock. I have it set to 8 hours, so it reboots every night. Shorter is possible.
A freshly restarted phone is in its safest state. Necessary to input the unlock code, strict minimum required processes running in the background.
You do it because it makes an attacker’s life harder because now I have to find two bugs instead of one.
The entire boot chain of the phone up to the apps you run are verified successively by the component that loads it. A digital signature helps ensure that only trustworthy code ever runs. A bug must be found to bypass these checks to load malware code. For example, a bug in the image code in a web browser might cause loading of code that isn’t checked. This way the malware gets smuggled onto the phone.
This means that if you get hacked via one bug and malware is loaded, the attacker has to work harder to solve the problem of how do I convince the phone to load it again at boot because the code it’s made of isn’t going to be approved code. When you reboot, you are effectively forcing a validation that all the code you have running is authentic, which would exclude the malware. Trick me once sure, can you survive a full pat down? Probably not. It’ll get caught.
Unless I have a second bug to fool the normal code loading systems too, the malware can’t run. You have to go back and trigger the first bug again somehow, which places more strain on the attacker.
Thanks for taking the time to write that out. I found it really helpful.👍
I love to talk about computer security. I don’t get the chance often enough.
I hope you get more chances to do so; you explained the situation in a much better way than the article and convinced me to reboot my phone.
You restart your phone because of security.
I ‘restart’ my phone, because it’s overheated and lost its battery % to 0.
We’re not the same.
