Should you restart before an iOS update

[SteveTorner]

Where restarting would clear a non-persistent exploit if it exists.. or is the update process not affected by such issues?

 

[Cobold]

I do it, my wife doesn't - seems not to make any difference at all.

But beeing an IT guy for almost 25 years now, I'll still do a reboot before updating. And my wife still won't 🤣😵‍💫

 

[adrianlondon]

I don't bother. A few minutes *after* a successful upgrade I will do a hard reboot though. I've found that the first reboot after an upgrade leaves me with blank widgets for a while, so I prefer to get that issue out of the way

 

[nburwell]

After a major iOS release, I typically will do a hard restart on my phone once the update has been installed.

 

[chabig]

Apple doesn't tell us to, and they designed it--so they ought to know how it works.

 

[gwang73]

I don't reboot before an update but what I do is after an update, I let the phone idle for a few minutes and cool down. I then close all the apps in the app switcher and then shut down and power back on and use the device as normal.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

I do a hard restart after an update, never tried it before

 

[spartan1967]

I don’t restart before, but after an iOS update, I will refresh my apps & update them. Then after all apps updated, I restart.

 

[Helmsley]

The only time my iPhone 13 gets rebooted is during an iOS update.