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Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I miss my BlackBerry and it's scheduled reboot option

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pixels with grapheneos can reboot automatically after a number of hours with the screen off (unattended because you are sleeping). But this would also interfere with Whatsapp backup, which happens overnight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Samsung phones also have a reboot schedule option

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Settings > Device care > Auto optimization > Auto restart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And in addition to that, they also have automatic reboot if the phone detects performance degradation.