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Not never; phones also reboot when there are critical OS updates to apply — and that happens as long as the phone is both charging and locked at any time during a vendor-defined daily maintenance window (usually something like 2AM-4AM in the user's local time.)

This happens even if the user just put the phone to sleep a moment ago. The only way to prevent it is to never leave your phone locked and charging at the same time.



> phones also reboot when there are critical OS updates to apply

Of course, or when they run out of battery, or you drop them too hard, etc. But realistically you could go for weeks or months without a reboot. From a transient fault or malware perspective, that might as well be never.


"Critical security updates" for iOS come ~weekly.


This is definitely not true. Apple releases security updates about once a month.




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