I just “setup as new” a few days ago. I had a couple of bugs that had been so long standing I was convinced it had to be something wrong with my setup only and it was carrying over when I was restoring from backups. These bugs had followed me through multiple iPhone versions and multiple major iOS versions.

After doing the full reset and “setup as new”…those bugs still exist and it was a wasted effort.

Restoring from backup is fine.

Occasionally very rarely something doesn’t work as expected usually an app but sometimes even my ringers and/or notifications act strange so I will do a soft reset. (Just turning it off and back on)

iPhone „science“ reminds me of snake oil „science“

No

Just do it when there is a major iOS update. Otherwise, there is no need to.

Uh, no? There are those rare occasion when Wifi stops working properly so a shutdown/reboot is necessary. That is not a reset.

I would say a BIG “N-O” on that notion……

Your friend is mistaken.

Don’t reset unless you have an issue that would seem to require it.

I factory reset once when I had a 5C and that was only because the memory function was so messed up that I could no longer receive text messages.

Only if I’m having an issue that restarting doesn’t fix. Doesn’t happen often as the process is easy but will take like 30 minutes between erasing and redownloading everything.

I’ve also heard some people recommend to reset your iPhone once a year. I’ve never done it actually, I don’t think it makes any noticeable difference, maybe it solves some problem that you have before restarting but if you don’t have any i can’t see the point.

Reset means rebooting the phone? I only do that when I update OS or I encounter an issue that forced me to reboot.

Yeah, maybe once a year, and only if I’m having troubles.

u/Silvestre074, did your friend explain what a ‘reset’ meant?

- factory reset?

- settings reset?

Just some sample options.

Please do share in detail what ‘reset’ is supposed to mean