Do I need to switch my iPhone off?

[sultanoflondon]

Hi all,

I have heard some conflicting stories about how it is good to switch off your iPhone for an hour or so every week/fortnight/month.

I have not ever done this and haven't seemed to had an issue, but maybe it would help with battery life or something?

What is the MacRumours consensus on this issue?

 

[_Refurbished_]

An iPhone is a computer. All computers should be rebooted every so often. An hour shutdown is unnecessary. I’ll reboot after I notice a system hang or a system abnormality.....luckily this isn’t too often on iOS.

If you’re OCD about it, rebooting once a week can’t hurt. Wouldn’t worry too much about it, though.

 

[akash.nu]

You don’t need to do anything to your iPhone. If you see a bit of lag then just restart. Modern devices don’t need to be maintained by mere humans.

 

[beach bum]

I’m not sure if still relevant, but AT&T told me the I should power down-no more than a second or 2, and restart at least once a week to allow for carrier updates

 

[joeblow7777]

Phones and tablets are designed to be “always on” devices. You can reboot if you think there’s a problem or it seems sluggish or something, but there’s really no need to.

 

[UnifiedMelody]

Hi all,

I have heard some conflicting stories about how it is good to switch off your iPhone for an hour or so every week/fortnight/month.

I have not ever done this and haven't seemed to had an issue, but maybe it would help with battery life or something?

What is the MacRumours consensus on this issue?

I just leave it on most of the time, if it seems laggy due to ram fill up no harm in doing a quick on and off. iPhone standby time is freaking amazing at most i'll only lose 1% overnight or so [usually] if i forget to plug in before sleeping.