Restarting iPhone

[Rootntootn]

Hi. I searched and didn't find an answer, so I will ask you guys. In another thread, a user said that he likes to restart his iPhone every day. Helps with battery life he said.

do you find a problem with the forced reboot? I mean the one where you keep pressing down both buttons until the iPhone just stops. Ever had a problem with crashes or data loss after that? Thanks for your experience!

 

[Kadelic]

A hard reset (holding both buttons until the Apple logo appears) can be beneficial. Not sure if it helps with battery life but it's not going to hurt anything

 

[Rootntootn]

Thanks, Kadelic!

 

[Kadelic]

You're welcome. A hard reset is usually the first thing I try when experience any sort of problem or strange behavior on my iDevice.

 

[fury]

It's a little sudden and doesn't give the phone a chance to gracefully shut down, which can leave some files in an ambiguous state that it needs to repair when it boots back up. It is a journaled file system, though, so you won't particularly lose data, it just may start up a little stuttery while it works to correct whatever may have happened while it was in limbo.

I feel more comfortable doing the slide to power off and then starting from there, and only moving to the hard way if it is not responding to the slider.

 

[owieh]

Good point fury, I've never personally experienced any issues after a hard reboot. Even though my phone is not jailbroken, there are times that some apps would hang and even power/home buttons don't respond quickly, I would use it.

 

[Europa]

I reboot daily and do hard resets about once a week. It's never caused a problem.

 

[Rugaby]

I do a hard reset every day prior to putting my baby on the charger every night. I think it helps with the "snappiness" of the phone. I close all apps in the task manager prior to doing the reset.