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Wish this could be reduced lower. If I don’t unlock my phone in a day, something is up and extra paranoia is warranted.
by jsjohnst 2y ago
Wish this could be reduced lower. If I don’t unlock my phone in a day, something is up and extra paranoia is warranted.
- petesergeant 2y agoAnd for minimal hassle if you just hadn’t touched your phone. 12 hours would work great for me.
- aaomidi 2y agoI think you may be able to do something like this with a shortcut.
- rcMgD2BwE72F 2y ago18h is the default on GrapheneOS IIRC. Got my phone stolen abroad days ago with tones of sensitive data and that features was a big reassurance. I set it to 6h I believe.
- yonatan8070 2y agoI tried to do it using Tasker on my crDroid device, but it requires the phone to be rooted, which mine isn't since some apps detect it and throw a fit.
- astrea 2y agoAfter reading your comment, I was interested in whether or not I could achieve this through the built-in Shortcuts app. Unfortunately, "Restart" is not an available action. Edit: Actually, I was looking in the wrong place. It’s an option for the "Shut Down” action. Thanks, @jwond!
- elboru 2y agoIt’s so frustrating having a nice Shortcut idea just to hit a limitation right away.
- __m 2y agoYeah shortcuts could be much more useful. I wanted to make a post request when I arrive at some place with some additional javascript logic to update an authentication token. It just doesn’t work when running in the background, I have to manually trigger it
- jwond 2y agoThere is a restart action. You need to first add the Shut Down action, then you can change it to Restart.
- RulerOf 2y agoThank you very much. I've wanted to have a weekly reboot of my phone for years now, and it drove me nuts that I couldn't create a shortcuts automation for it.
- astrea 2y agoI'm so dumb. I didn't even click into the "Blank Actions" tile.
- buzzerbetrayed 2y agoNice! Just created an automation to restart daily at 4:00am. Hopefully it works without user input.
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- Hamuko 2y agoMy guess would be that the three-day timer is the first version to test the waters. Put it out there to see if there are any unexpected problems. And if everything's peachy, lower it in some future release to make it more secure.
- eleveriven 2y agoIf they went with something more aggressive (like 24 hours) it might annoy more users, especially those who keep their phones locked for a while but don't use them constantly
- Washuu 2y agoI'm one of those people. I charge my phone once a week. Most of my interaction with it is notifications on the lock screen.
- eleveriven 2y agoYour usage style highlights why a one-size-fits-all approach to device behavior doesn’t always work
- Hamuko 2y agoI imagine the number of people who don't unlock their iPhones in ≥24 hours is a vanishingly small percentage of the userbase. Especially since with new iPhones, just looking at the lockscreen with your face unobscured is enough to unlock it.
- oarsinsync 2y agoI imagine a vanishingly small percentage of the user base is still a very large number of people, that as an absolute number, would make up a significant percentage of the users of any other product. Apple’s scale is so large, it’s easy to forget even tiny percentages are still actually really significant in absolute terms.
- tlb 2y ago
- elzbardico 2y agoI am almost never use my phone at home anymore. And even when I leave home for gym or stuff like that, I will have my phone with me, but will interact most of the time with the apple watch. The only few times I will actually use the phone is to answer some urgent message. For lazy reading and media consumption I will use the ipad. I really enjoy apple ecosystem.
- jalk 2y agoHow about a system for rebooting if the phone is not close to a specific Airtag or similar device. Ofc. with the possibility to override by unlocking.
- zanoab 2y agoFind My already gives notifications when a device gets separated from your other mobile devices including Airtags. Apple could add extra actions on top of that to automatically mark as lost, reboot, or erase.
- hulitu 2y agoYou can always install Croudstrike. They will take care of reboots. /s
- throawayonthe 2y agoGrapheneOS has this feature but with a configurable time :p
- wiredbox 2y agoCreate an automation shortcut that reboots your phone every day and you're set.
- skygazer 2y agoYour shortcut likely isn’t working. I tried it, but it didn’t reboot at the scheduled time. It briefly turned on to show a dialog asking for confirmation, but since it was unattended, no one approved it, so it never restarted. You can confirm it’s failing by scheduling it to go off while you’re there, or download a System Status app that shows boot time.