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by SXX 4 days ago
Sometimes it's truly useful featutes, but having no toggle in settings making it terrible.

Like iPhone idle auto-reboot every 3 days. After a while they added "Allow Idle Reboot" flag but it only accessible via MDM and require device wipe and for switching it to be a managed device.
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TeMPOraL 4 days ago
What would that be useful for anyway? Sounds like something aimed to prevent people from reusing their old/secondary devices for IoT.
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SXX 3 days ago
> What would that be useful for anyway?

It puts iPhone in cold boot state if for instance police or any agency confiscate it from you. Better tamper proofing.

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RobotToaster 4 days ago
Hides memory leaks
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TeMPOraL 4 days ago
Right, that too. But that's a reason to recommend regular reboots[0], not to force them, and "3 days of inactivity" is a suspiciously specific time that I also saw mentioned in Android settings somewhere the other day.

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[0] - Which I find deeply ironic, in that merely a decade ago, people would laugh at Windows with its "reboot after installs, reboot in case of problems" approach, and now frequent reboots are seen as Standard Security and Stability Practice on *nix systems, both mobile and server-bound...

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pirates 3 days ago
I have no issue restarting my iOS/Mac/Linux machines because the time to get back to doing fun or productive stuff is measured in seconds. And usually you only have to restart one time. Windows used to take ages, and often you’d reboot only find out that something else that requires a reboot only triggered because of the previous reboot, so you were sometimes in for 2-3 restarts.

It’s not like that anymore in my experience at least but the stigma stuck.

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