Benefits of restarts?

[TheJustPull]

I saw somewhere people suggested re-starting your iPhone a few times a day. I'm assuming this helps with memory management? What are some other benefits and how often do y'all restart yours?

 

[snowtrooper1966]

I dunno about a few times a day, seems excessive.
You can manage backgrounding apps from the task manager, and delete cookies in settings.
I will do a hard reset about once a week.....

 

[Mugwhamp]

I saw somewhere people suggested re-starting your iPhone a few times a day. I'm assuming this helps with memory management? What are some other benefits and how often do y'all restart yours?

I think people as well as machines need to reset occasionally. My experience with the iPhone is that doing a soft (or hard, if necessary) reboot once a week seems to keep the system running smoothly.


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[RoofMonkey]

I also agree that a few times a day is excessive. I 'try' to do a reset/reboot of my device before plug gaining it in for the nightly charge. It does seem to help keep things running smooth.

 

[Rugaby]

I close all apps and do a hard reset every night before charging.

 

[Apple iAddicted]

Every other morning for me


Sent from my 32GB iPhone 4s on iOS 5.1!
Only thing iPhone is missing is an expandable memory port! Come on Apple give us a microSD port already!

 

[BillF]

Just curious; do you really notice any discernible difference with those resets? I've had my 4S a few weeks now, have lots of apps, but have never reset it. I do shut down apps pretty religiously though.

 

[RoofMonkey]

I think I do. It doesn't hurt anything and like all electronics, it's not a bad idea to give them a fresh restart every so often.

 

[BillF]

Agree it's usually good to reset stuff once in a while, but was curious if a performance difference was noticed.

 

[TheJustPull]

It might make things open a bit snappier, but I was trying to figure out the benefits because lately I've heard lots of talk about people doing re-starts.