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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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[โ€“] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 68 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

TL;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
[โ€“] zingo@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Restarting anything with a chip in it once and a while is good practice.

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