Apple

iPhone „science“ reminds me of snake oil „science“

“Every 8 months” LOL. How does he even come up with that number?

I do hard restarts from time to time when it glitches out. But that’s about it.

It’s not a steak mate

Occasionally very rarely something doesn’t work as expected usually an app but sometimes even my ringers and/or notifications act strange so I will do a soft reset. (Just turning it off and back on)

No

Uh, no? There are those rare occasion when Wifi stops working properly so a shutdown/reboot is necessary. That is not a reset.

Your friend is mistaken.

I would say a BIG “N-O” on that notion…..

I have used phones for 4 years and never reset them

Just do it when there is a major iOS update. Otherwise, there is no need to.

Only if I’m having an issue that restarting doesn’t fix. Doesn’t happen often as the process is easy but will take like 30 minutes between erasing and redownloading everything.

Don’t reset unless you have an issue that would seem to require it.

I factory reset once when I had a 5C and that was only because the memory function was so messed up that I could no longer receive text messages.

Reset means rebooting the phone? I only do that when I update OS or I encounter an issue that forced me to reboot.

Yeah, maybe once a year, and only if I’m having troubles.

u/Silvestre074, did your friend explain what a 'reset' meant?

- factory reset?

- settings reset?

Just some sample options.

Please do share in detail what 'reset' is supposed to mean

I’ve also heard some people recommend to reset your iPhone once a year. I’ve never done it actually, I don’t think it makes any noticeable difference, maybe it solves some problem that you have before restarting but if you don’t have any i can’t see the point.

no, that does nothing unless you’re full on data.

I rest my iphone at night.

It automatically does this for you when it updates so no need

I've never had too. I've went from the 7+, 10s, 13 without a factory reset. The person who told you that must have came from Android originally.

Only time I restart mine is when it starts acting up

Reset? Like wipe all your data? No, never do that unless it's actually necessary for some specific reason.

Most ridiculous thing I ever heard.

… at first, I thought you meant “restart”. I do restart every now and then but only if something is acting weird or buggy. I can go months without it but sometimes I will.

It’s generally not a bad idea to to restart smartphones but iPhones less so than other OS’s.

If it gets fussy I do.

Do you mean a hard reset like wipe data and put it in factory default or a hard reboot with volume up/down, hold right button?

Hehehehehe

I’ll only do it when there’s a major iOS update and only when my iPhone is acting up or just to reset when the storage of the apps exceed a point where I just want the space back

Only if you have a software issue that would require it. Which is very unlikely in most cases. I have only done this once and that was to reinstall iOS due to a software bug with one of apples native applications.

Did it last week, made my phone feel brand new

No. You don’t have to unless it’s experiencing some kind of malfunction, then doing a hard restart, pressing volume up, volume down, then hold the power button till you see the apple. That usually fixes any errors I have going on and then it works fine. I never have to shut it off

I reset my iPhone whenever it has weird issues, which usually means every few weeks.

I just do it randomly, I literally did it a couple hours ago.

I start new phones as new but I don’t reset my current ones unless I need to

Never reset your iPhone unless you are planning on losing all of your data, giving the phone away, or selling the phone.

It’s kind of nice to do a reset once in a while as it does help clear a lot of cache and other data that is just lingering in your iPhone

Only if you can’t fix something do you do a hard wipe. No need to reset every 6 months. Why would Apple design a phone that has to be reset so often?

I turn mine off every day. I have no idea if that’s a good thing or not, but I feel like it needs a break lol

As in factory reset or turn it off and back on?

By reset do you mean factory reset? As in wiping the phone clean every 6 months? If so, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a while.

I do a backup and full factory reset once every major OS version releases, but only then.

I have never had any issues, bugs nor anything similar that's widely reported when new versions of iOS are released, and I believe that's because upgrading always leave remnants of lingering trash. But that's me.

Every big update

If you reset your phone, it goes back to factory settings. It’s a pain in the butt!

factory reset every major IOS upgrade.

Every day

I just "setup as new" a few days ago. I had a couple of bugs that had been so long standing I was convinced it had to be something wrong with my setup only and it was carrying over when I was restoring from backups. These bugs had followed me through multiple iPhone versions and multiple major iOS versions.

After doing the full reset and "setup as new"....those bugs still exist and it was a wasted effort.

Restoring from backup is fine.