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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 25 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hardly ever have I seen an article so full of "could be", "alledgedly", "supposed", "likely", and "probably".

It may be because I have stopped reading about UFO's after the age of 15.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Because they have no actual proof of it, and direct evidence against it. They talk about phones communicating with each other to restart... yet a phone inside a faraday box restarted.

It's almost certainly just a software bug in iOS which is why it's inconsistent.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 63 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

I wouldn't mind having the ability to schedule a reboot on my phone as an extra precaution.

[–] kopasz7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I thought it's a standard feature (auto restart at set times). Maybe a samsung thing and not android.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I think graphene does this by default now? Like if you don't unlock it for 24 hours it'll reboot.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Its an aosp feature i believe, but its disabled on many phones. Graphene and calyx have it. With calyx its default off, but you can set it between 1 and 72 hours. Very handy feature.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

18 hours by default.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It probably requires root, but I'm sure Tasker can do this.

Really, all phones should have the option to reboot into locked mode on certain conditions like being taken out of network or being unattended for a while.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

The interesting thing is if the manufacturer is shipping them that way by default.

[–] intresteph@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

Could possibly also look at the motion sensors to see if it is in a pocket moving around or if it was sitting around for a while.

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There is a shortcut action to shut down the phone which you could trigger with an automation, I suppose.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

I can put the phone in lockdown by press-holding the power button and select the "lockdown" option. Not bad, but an actual reboot daily at night wouldn't be so bad.

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 1 points 3 minutes ago

That's not what I mean, I'm talking about the Shortcuts app:

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

On iOS this is 5 quick presses of the power button, and it vibrates in a unique way to let you know it worked, so can be done in a pocket or just without looking, which is nice. But yeah an auto reboot would be swell.

[–] mbtrhcs@feddit.org 1 points 1 minute ago
[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dont know what lhone you are speaking of, but on Samsung phones, the only thing that this does is disabling biometrics and notifications. Your phone stays in AFU and this does not protect you from law enforcement or other

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It protects you from being compelled to provide biometrics to unlock the device. Since the courts have made a distinction between providing a password and biometrics to unlock devices for whatever asinine reason.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

GrapheneOS has the option for a scheduled reboot if the phone hasn't been unlocked for a configurable amount of time.

[–] Anteater7369@kbin.earth 4 points 5 hours ago

GrapheneOS has an option to reboot your phone after being locked for X hours.

[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

Check out GrapheneOS.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

My phone rebooted occasionally on iOS18 and this was mentioned as fixed in 18.1 release notes so this story sounds plausible.