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Great idea. How about reboot if more than 2 hours with no unlock?

by tiahura 2y ago

potato3732842 2y ago
Um, sleep? Make it at least mid teens if not 24+
- tiahura 2y ago
  What’s the harm if it reboots if you’re sleeping?
  - Jtsummers 2y ago
    Very little, which is why if you enable automatic updates on iPhones they try to apply those updates at night while the device is locked and charging, when most people are sleeping. If you're using the phone it won't activate at night and will let you know that it couldn't install the update.
  - stackskipton 2y ago
    Only harm I could see if someone grabs their phone to make emergency call and it's rebooting or locked and in their sleepy state, have trouble unlocking it. However, I do think 12 hour "Phone hasn't been unlocked, reboot it" seems logical security feature to add.
    - Jtsummers 2y ago
      You never need to unlock an iPhone to make an emergency call (if you mean 911 versus urgently needing to call some other number).
  - potato3732842 2y ago
    The initial unlock will take a little longer, your apps aren't running, etc. Nothing major, still a bit annoying though.
  - Suppafly 2y ago
    Do alarms work on iphones if they are in the BFU state? I'm pretty sure they don't on my android, because it hasn't even unlocked most of the bootloader if you haven't put your pin in.
    - Jtsummers 2y ago
      Yes. If your iPhone updates over night (as I mentioned in another comment, common time for automatic updates or just to kick them off manually) your alarm still goes off the next day after it restarts.
LorenPechtel 2y ago
Horrible idea. I don't have an iPhone, but it's not exactly alien for me to be in a situation where I've gone more than a couple of hours without touching my phone but while it is doing something important: recording where I am. (And, yes, I have fallback options, but they aren't nearly as good.) If you're going to put in an auto reboot either make it long enough nobody will trip it while the phone is legitimately recording something or make it configurable.

Great idea. How about reboot if more than 2 hours with no unlock?

potato3732842 2y ago

Um, sleep? Make it at least mid teens if not 24+

tiahura 2y ago
What’s the harm if it reboots if you’re sleeping?
- Jtsummers 2y ago
  Very little, which is why if you enable automatic updates on iPhones they try to apply those updates at night while the device is locked and charging, when most people are sleeping. If you're using the phone it won't activate at night and will let you know that it couldn't install the update.
- stackskipton 2y ago
  Only harm I could see if someone grabs their phone to make emergency call and it's rebooting or locked and in their sleepy state, have trouble unlocking it. However, I do think 12 hour "Phone hasn't been unlocked, reboot it" seems logical security feature to add.
  - Jtsummers 2y ago
    You never need to unlock an iPhone to make an emergency call (if you mean 911 versus urgently needing to call some other number).
- potato3732842 2y ago
  The initial unlock will take a little longer, your apps aren't running, etc. Nothing major, still a bit annoying though.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  Do alarms work on iphones if they are in the BFU state? I'm pretty sure they don't on my android, because it hasn't even unlocked most of the bootloader if you haven't put your pin in.
  - Jtsummers 2y ago
    Yes. If your iPhone updates over night (as I mentioned in another comment, common time for automatic updates or just to kick them off manually) your alarm still goes off the next day after it restarts.

LorenPechtel 2y ago

Horrible idea. I don't have an iPhone, but it's not exactly alien for me to be in a situation where I've gone more than a couple of hours without touching my phone but while it is doing something important: recording where I am. (And, yes, I have fallback options, but they aren't nearly as good.) If you're going to put in an auto reboot either make it long enough nobody will trip it while the phone is legitimately recording something or make it configurable.