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

submitted 5 months ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 9 points 5 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.

[–] Strepto@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Samsung phones also have a reboot schedule option

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where?

[–] Strepto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Settings > Device care > Auto optimization > Auto restart

[–] lauha@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks!