{"id":22139,"date":"2025-04-15T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22139\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:57:08","slug":"android-phones-will-soon-reboot-if-theyre-locked-for-a-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22139\/","title":{"rendered":"Android phones will soon reboot if they\u2019re locked for a few days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven\u2019t unlocked them for a while, making it harder for other people to access the data inside. The feature included in the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/product-documentation\/answer\/11462338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest Google Play services update<\/a> says that Android phones will automatically restart \u201cif locked for 3 consecutive days,\u201d requiring users to enter their passcode the next time they want to open the device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/04\/14\/android-auto-restart-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9to5Google notes<\/a>, this update should apply to both Android phones and tablets, but will exclude other device categories like Auto, TV, and WearOS. The reboot function \u2014 not to be confused with a device reset that returns it to factory settings \u2014 puts phones and tablets into a Before First Unlock (BFU) state that encrypts data files and disables biometric login support until the device PIN has been entered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">We\u2019ve asked Google to clarify when the Google Play services 25.14 update will be rolling out, and which Android devices will support the new auto-reboot feature. These Android feature drops can typically take a week or two to appear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It\u2019s unclear if devices will notify users why an automatic reboot has occurred, though Android phones already display a message on the PIN screen if users need to enter their passcode to fully unlock the device after a reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven\u2019t unlocked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2061,867,547,12,811,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-22139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-security","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114342333205809209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}