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>A silent update rolling out to virtually all Android devices will make your phone more secure, and all you have to do is not touch it for a few days. The new feature implements auto-restart of a locked device, which will make your personal data harder to extract. It's coming as part of a Google Play Services update, though, so there's nothing you can do to speed along the process. Google is preparing to release a new update to Play Services (v25.14), which brings a raft of tweaks and improvements. First spotted by 9to5Google, the update was officially released on April 14, but as with all Play Services updates, it could take a week or more to reach all devices. When 25.14 arrives, Android devices will see a few minor improvements, including prettier settings screens, improved connection with cars and watches, and content previews when using Quick Share.

Archive: https://archive.today/UI558 From the post: >>A silent update rolling out to virtually all Android devices will make your phone more secure, and all you have to do is not touch it for a few days. The new feature implements auto-restart of a locked device, which will make your personal data harder to extract. It's coming as part of a Google Play Services update, though, so there's nothing you can do to speed along the process. Google is preparing to release a new update to Play Services (v25.14), which brings a raft of tweaks and improvements. First spotted by 9to5Google, the update was officially released on April 14, but as with all Play Services updates, it could take a week or more to reach all devices. When 25.14 arrives, Android devices will see a few minor improvements, including prettier settings screens, improved connection with cars and watches, and content previews when using Quick Share.

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This isn't about security. This is about Android devices needing frequent reboots to make the OS stable again. The memory management of Android is terrible and their poorly made apps and services make it leak like a fucking sieve. Reboots only temporarily fix the issues since the crap that runs on top of the OS will just leak away again after the reboot.

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This is what happens when you hire pajeet and expect them to write good code.

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It has to be locked for 3 consecutive days though.. I can't imagine this being likely for anyone unless the device was lost, or a secondary device (business phone?)..

3 days seems way too long. Personally I think 4-8 hours would be far more reasonable if its a primary device.

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What? You must be referring to some old android phones. The memory management in Android is actually really good considering the amount of apps that start and stop constantly and all the apps and services that are always running. Older androids suffered from memory problems, but any newer device with at least 4 gigs of ram will never have memory issues unless the user has way too many apps running at once.

The real reason for the new feature is because data gets sent to google before any adblockers or vpns become active on startup. So a regularly timed reboot will keep a regularly timed dataset coming in.