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Not bad for battery itself but definitely reduce your battery life cause restarting your phone takes more power to do all of the jobs.
I occasionally use the trick on iPhone 6s Plus to clear the ram if I feel something is not right. Other than that, I don’t even “quit” app that often anymore.
 
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i usually restart my phone everyday maybe twice just to clear ram and it usually get snappy after a retart.is this bad for the battery?

It won’t damage the battery directly, but you’re spending more power to boot and it’s completely unneccesary. You don’t even need to restart Macs often, let alone iOS devices. There is no speed (or any other) benefit - if you see any difference, it’s almost certainly a placebo effect :)

So, don’t restart unless you have an issue and enjoy your phone! :)

P.S. Btw, not neccessary/advised to manually close apps (unless frozen), if you were wondering.
 
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This may actually slow the phone down. Cleared memory is wasted memory. Memory needs to hold cached files to be useful. This is not a PC. Let the iPhone manage the memory. I restart only when there is a problem.

Yes and no. Memory in the Mac OS X system is divided into Wired, Active, Inactive and Free. iPhones have always used these types of memory categories as iPhones run OS X (then canlled iPhone OS, now iOS).

The good thing about OS X memory management is the Active and Wired Memory. That's where the speed gains are had as constantly accessed data is stored there. However, Inactive memory is wasted memory and it will build up. But what is Inactive memory? Basically Memory that was once used by apps and is no longer used. Its filled with "garbage" data files. If this Inactive memory keeps filling and free memory is gone, then this is where you see slow downs and constant reloads. OS X has issues recognizing when to purge Inactive memory which means OS X will move to grab more Free memory to load new apps.

This is where the reboot is needed. It clears everything out and deletes all Inactive Memory. However, you also get rid of Active and Wired. As such, rebooting everyday slows you down. However, every week will keep you running in top notch.
 
i usually restart my phone everyday maybe twice just to clear ram and it usually get snappy after a retart.is this bad for the battery?
I have an Activator action that does that automatically for me every weekday at 7:30am (it's scheduled).

But I'm jailbroken.

Not doing it for ram though. On occasion one of my alarms fails to go off at the scheduled time. A reboot every day ensures my alarm will sound the next morning. And since there is no interaction on my part doing that does not inconvenience me.
 
I have an Activator action that does that automatically for me every weekday at 7:30am (it's scheduled).

But I'm jailbroken.

Not doing it for ram though. On occasion one of my alarms fails to go off at the scheduled time. A reboot every day ensures my alarm will sound the next morning. And since there is no interaction on my part doing that does not inconvenience me.

Lucky you... I need to jailbreak mine like in ye olde days
 
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I have an Activator action that does that automatically for me every weekday at 7:30am (it's scheduled).

But I'm jailbroken.

Not doing it for ram though. On occasion one of my alarms fails to go off at the scheduled time. A reboot every day ensures my alarm will sound the next morning. And since there is no interaction on my part doing that does not inconvenience me.
yeah for me restarting my iphone X is really easy i had setup on accessibilty so ill just press and hold it and restart
 
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i usually restart my phone everyday maybe twice just to clear ram and it usually get snappy after a retart.is this bad for the battery?

I did this a million years ago with the first iPad. It's a waste of time, really. :) It's not going to make any noticeable difference to the battery.
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iCleaner Pro. ;) :D

Since we got the IP67 rating, I leave mine in a glass full of Windex overnight. I had to start taking the leather case off, though. The ammonia was destroying the leather.
 
Normal practice for me is to switch my Iphone off at night then switch on and put on charge next morning whilst having breakfast.
Are you saying this is bad practice then ?
 
Normal practice for me is to switch my Iphone off at night then switch on and put on charge next morning whilst having breakfast.
Are you saying this is bad practice then ?

From a technical standpoint I really can't say whether it's bad for the phone or not, but just out of curiosity why do you shut your phone off for the night?

I would imagine airplane mode or do not disturb would do the trick if notifications during the night are the reason. Like I said, just curious.
 
No real reason, just something I’ve always done from first having a phone, probably trying to save unnecessary battery drain.
 
Gotcha! Though I'd wager that the constant shutting down and then booting back up would wear out the battery (and phone in general) more than some of the software solutions, but again, I'm no expert in this matter and have no sources to indicate, well, anything really. If it works for you, great.
 
This is the correct answer, direct from Apple no less... But no one seems to believes it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
YouTube, and some poorly programmed apps love to stay in the background for no reason if you don’t quit the apps.

For example a paused song on the music app, and you ask Siri what song this is and she will just tell you the name of the paused song instead of the song you want her to identify!
 
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