Do you shut your iPhone off ?

[Interstella5555]

Since a cell has acted as my primary phone in 2001, I've never shut one off beyond planes (pre-airplane mode) and movies (same).

 

[matttye]

True that smartphones are computers but there is no reason computers need to be restarted unless they are having issues--some web servers run for years without ever being restarted.

Yep agreed. There's a reason one of the first things tech support staff ask people is "have you turned it off and on again?" - this is the case for most electronic devices.

In fact, whenever I'm having a problem I'll reboot whatever it is I'm using before trying anything else.

 

[DollaTwentyFive]

Only when I fly. The rest of the time, it is always on. No landline, so it is my only phone.

 

[CyBeRino]

I never turn my iPhone, iPad, laptop or other computer equipment off unless there's some damn good reason.

For instance, my phone is always on. When flying, airplane mode. Not that I think I'll crash the plane otherwise, but since there's no signal at 12km above the atlantic ocean anyway, why waste the battery juice on trying to get one. Every now and then something will hang and I won't get any cellular data in. If I'm moving I usually just wait it out (until I switch towers) but if I'm going to stay in the same place a reboot tends to fix that.

iPad: same deal. Except recently I actually did turn it off for a night because before that it had decided that it didn't like the internet anymore. Reboot didn't help, but a night's rest magically did.

My other crap is also always on. I have a (PowerPC) Mac mini here that I use to irc on. Its uptime is 741 days.

 

[MistahMumford]

I shut mine off at night while charging. I doubt that I need to though. I think I've let Battery University mess my head up from my Android days.

 

[MistahMumford]

I know this thread is super old but using airplane mode at night opposed to powering down is a viable option. I switched to airplane mode at around 10:30 last night with 87% and woke up at 4:45 this morning with the same 87%!! I do have a weekly reminder set to reboot my phone every Friday at 6:00am...just to clean out the cobwebs from not powering down nightly anymore.

 

[tttmac]

only when I had a jailbroken iPhone I would do this, to kind of clear things up on my 4s

 

[Ingster]

I never turn mine off unless there is a problem, and usually this sorts it.

Question to those who turn off to charge, doesn't the phone re-boot when the charger is plugged in? IIRC that's what it used to do

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

Do you shut your iPhone off ?

I do a hard reset once in a while on my iPhone 5 but never just turn it off.

 

[MistahMumford]

Question to those who turn off to charge, doesn't the phone re-boot when the charger is plugged in? IIRC that's what it used to do

It depends on the order in which you do it. To keep it from turning back on you must plug in first then power off. If you power off then plug in it'll power back up.

 

[greygray]

Nope I don't. Airplane mode works perfectly alright for me.

 

[d123]

I don't bother with shutting down, if it needs to be rebooted I would, but other than that it's on, sometimes silenced, sometimes airplane.

No reason to turn it off completely.

 

[iAlphard]

I always turn my phone off whenever i'm charging it. Which means almost everyday.

 

[Italianblend]

I thought the beauty of apple is that you don't have to kill apps to save battery. Are you sure it saves battery?

 

[cdmoore74]

I normally have to reboot due to issues. On Android we have an automatic reboot app that would reboot at any given time. Does Apple have something like that? I wouldn't mind having it reboot at 2am.

 

[scotrinaf]

I'm trying to quit...

 

[DiCaprioAngel]

I never turn mine off. I've rebooted a few times, but I never kept the phone off for any reason.

 

[d123]

I normally have to reboot due to issues. On Android we have an automatic reboot app that would reboot at any given time. Does Apple have something like that? I wouldn't mind having it reboot at 2am.

Why would you want to? While bad app management on Android makes it a good thing to do, I haven't seen the need to reboot just to kill apps on iOS.

The only time I reboot on iOS is when the system asks to (more common on my jailbroken iPhone 4) after installing an app or if I have a network issue.

 

[LondonGooner]

Very rarely like others have said;

When on a plane
If the battery dies
I am having a random software glitch
iOS updates

Apart from those, never.

 

[nburwell]

I never turn my phone off on purpose. The only time I would "turn it off" is when I kill the battery completely, only to have it charge up to 100% to calibrate the battery. Otherwise, my phone is always on (including when I fly; I simply put it in Airplane Mode).

 

[LondonGooner]

I never turn my phone off on purpose. The only time I would "turn it off" is when I kill the battery completely, only to have it charge up to 100% to calibrate the battery. Otherwise, my phone is always on (including when I fly; I simply put it in Airplane Mode).

Does this even have to be done anymore?

 

[Fattytail]

I don't think I've shut off my phone in about 3 years. There's just absolutely no need.

 

[nburwell]

Does this even have to be done anymore?

Probably not, but I still do it once a month anyway.

 

[terzinator]

Only reboot if there's an issue or things hanging or whatever.

Only once with the 5S so far, and that was to see if I could fix the damned level calibration issue. Not so fixed.

Anyway, for sleepytime, I just set a nightly "Do not disturb" schedule... no need for airplane mode. (I find DND far better than airplane mode, because you can set it so that only certain calls CAN get through... like family/friends/neighbors in an emergency, etc...)