What Happens If You Never Turn Off Your Phone

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Never Turn Off Your Phone

A Two-Minute Restart Addresses Problems That Would Otherwise Take Hour

How Often You Should Actually Be Restarting

Your Phone Essentially Loses Its Short-Term Memory

Thermal Accumulation Affects Long-Term Hardware

Apps Begin to Behave Erratically

Security Patches May Not Apply Properly

The Battery Drains Faster Over Time

Background Processes Multiply Without Being Cleared

RAM Gets Progressively More Cluttered

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The advice to restart your phone periodically exists for good technical reasons but most smartphone users either ignore it completely or only do it when something has already gone wrong. The question of what actually happens to a modern smartphone that is never powered down is more interesting and more consequential than most users realize. Here is what your phone is accumulating storing and quietly degrading when it never gets the opportunity to completely restart itself.
 

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