VITecNet@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhy the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphonegizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down15
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minus-squarerecursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·edit-21 year agoTL;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
minus-squareqprimed@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agowell, I mean… anything can leak memory. but yeah, enterprise/carrier grade devices are designed to be in continuous use for years and they generally do that pretty well.
minus-squarezingo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoRestarting anything with a chip in it once and a while is good practice.
minus-squareAeri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI wonder if the regular updates mine does count.
minus-squareTag365@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFeels 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.
TL;DR:
Restarting your phone once a week can help improve performance and security.
Maybe home grade routers.
well, I mean… anything can leak memory. but yeah, enterprise/carrier grade devices are designed to be in continuous use for years and they generally do that pretty well.
I leak memory all the time
Restarting anything with a chip in it once and a while is good practice.
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.