Your Android phone now auto-restarts if it's been locked for three days
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- 16 Apr 2025
Like anyone at home will keep their phone running for 3 days without using it haha no chance.
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- 16 Apr 2025
Anonymous, 16 Apr 2025Kinda creepy that Google can update your OS via Google Play... moremore like creepy when 80% of android OS don't get security updates
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- Anonymous
- srr
- 16 Apr 2025
Anonymous, 16 Apr 2025Just info what their built-in SoC or SELinux can do ! :)) If Revolut can work without Spywares, that's the Benchmark for the rest of the Industry. I actually wait EU Commission to start demonopolizing Location Services for the rest of the sanity.
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
Anonymous, 16 Apr 2025Kinda creepy that Google can update your OS via Google Play... moreJust info what their built-in SoC or SELinux can do ! :))
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- 16 Apr 2025
Ami, 16 Apr 2025Fortunately, it is an optional feature.
Security & P... moreGood find.
Sometimes the comment section is more useful the article itself.
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
J, 16 Apr 2025After seeing the outrage about this... are there really tha... moreOld folks
Some old folks that's not too tech savy
And some "emergency phone" that like the extra phone that replace the landline that always at home and only connect to WiFi and only call through whatsapp or telegram or wechat
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
J, 16 Apr 2025After seeing the outrage about this... are there really tha... moreQuestion should be:
If my phone gets stolen and deactivates itself after 72 hours, can I locate it?
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
Dimi68, 16 Apr 2025I don't use any password or unlock features So what then!!Same here
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
my phone running android 7 restarts everyday. It's more advanced
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- General Net
- 39x
- 16 Apr 2025
From now on I will be buying android phone from aliexpress with china version
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- d@v
- 16 Apr 2025
After seeing the outrage about this... are there really that many people who don't unlock their phones for 72 hours? Genuinely curious.
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- Anonymous
- p1g
- 16 Apr 2025
Kinda creepy that Google can update your OS via Google Play Services.
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- Ami
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- 16 Apr 2025
Fortunately, it is an optional feature.
Security & Privacy
[Phone] Enables a future optional security feature, which will automatically restart your device if locked for 3 consecutive days.
https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/14343500
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
Welcome to iOS feature 😎
Opss.. Wrong one 🤭🤭🤭
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
I had my phone programmed to reboot every 1 week, this makes it actually worst for security because will be come world wide known information and a bad actor will try to extract data in the 1st 3 days of having your phone basically making my trick useless
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
It is an OPTIONAL feature (source: Google's official release notes). GSMArena, I didn't expect you to put such a clickbait title that misleads us into thinking all our phones would restart whether we like it or not.
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- 16 Apr 2025
nemesis8, 16 Apr 2025my poco already declines fingerprint unlock every 72hrs, fo... moreThis is different.
The current features utilized by many OEMs are simply disabling biometrics every 72 hours, regardless of how you use your phone. The phone OS itself is still running.
This Google feature actually reboots the phone. This puts the phone into the pre-boot up state where the system is not completely loaded as the phone is waiting for the first passcode unlock to decrypt its data.
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- Anonymous
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- 16 Apr 2025
DarlingYext, 16 Apr 2025"Xiaomi employs a near similar feature that doesn'... moreI hate this feature a lot.
I hate when this happened and I need the phone to do something.
Example, paying with phone, need phone for verification, etc.