Just like Apple’s iPhones can do now, your Android phone will also reboot automatically after three days of continuous lock.
Back in November 2024, a curious Apple iPhone behaviour stumped even law enforcement as the phones would be restarting automatically if they were kept in the „locked“ state for a while. As it turned out, this was not a bug and, in fact, was a feature added to improve the security of the device. Apple added this with iOS 18.1, and it is called „inactivity reboot.“
It looks like Google liked what it saw, and hence the feature has now been adopted for Android phones as well. With the latest version 25.14 update to Google Play services that was released yesterday, a phone that has not been unlocked for three days will restart automatically, prompting a user to input the phone’s password or PIN upon reboot.
