GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system, has posted a series of tweets on X suggesting that Android should introduce frequent auto-reboots to make it harder for forensic software vendors to exploit firmware flaws and spy on the users.
As long as “auto” doesn’t mean “forced”.
But knowing current trends, especially with Android, it likely will be.
This is just GrapheneOS, this isn’t something you get in a big tech phone. Also this is if you were to not unlock your phone for this amount of time. Say your phone is confiscated, they have 18 hours (new default settings) to basically break into your phone otherwise it auto reboots from not successfully unlocking and goes back into that encrypted locked mode.
So as long as you’re unlocking your phone once 18 hours, it won’t reboot. 18 is just the default too, you can make it more it less, or disable it entirely. But it will never really affect a normal person.
https://grapheneos.org/features#auto-reboot
But it’s a security measure to get it to BFU, where data is at rest and secure, in case your phone is out of your possession for an extended period of time (someone steals it, police take it, etc) so it becomes harder to exploit. I’ve set mine to 12. Some do 4 or even less. Feel free to turn it off.