Because they want to receive notifications and calls from instant messengers / VOIP providers, or price alerts from stock trading apps, or calendar reminders, etc.?
I wonder what makes you think average Joes needs to get themselves ready to be raided and device seized for “cracking” by adversaries.
Reboot timer is good feature, it is good to ensure your device runs smoothly, it is good to mitigate firmware exploit, it is also good to protect your data in case of device loss / seizure, but that’s the final line of defense and whether it could save you depends on the situation, if you were contained by adversaries, it prob. won’t help you because the adversaries won’t need to break the device security, they only need to break you.
And depending on the key disclosure laws in your country, you may not have a choice anyway.
An 18 hour reboot period is reasonable for people who use their phones once a day, and 12 hours is good for people using it all the time (accounting for sleep). Anything lower will just lead to inconvenience unless you ignore your calls/messages for hours anyway. If you don’t use your phone for days on end, 3 days is a good limit.
If you want to make sure your device reboots once a day then 8hours is a good idea, it would usually reboot while you are asleep. (I set to 8, but it reboots only once a week as I dont sleep well, might change to 4 to make sure it reboots. )
Wish we could customise the time, i want it to be 6 hours.
Or it might be nice if you could set a schedule separately or in addition. For example, maybe one could keep a reboot timer for 4 hours but also force it to reboot at midnight as well.
More like I’m observing police officers on a daily basis discussing their success stories due to Cellebrite and trying to give people the real solution and not downplay the threat. Average joe can turn into suspect #1 in a matter of minutes and cell phone data is crucial evidence.
Yeah, this is much more relevant advice for most “average Joes” than worrying about BFU/AFU and your phone being cracked. Rebooting regularly significantly lowers your risk of being affected by non-persistent malware.
I get the impression that updates are quite frequent so an user who always updates his device updates at least every ~10 days if you look at the changelog (but idk which updates were not pushed to stable) so I rely on this.
I agree that with 8 hours, many users will likely never have their device automatically restart. Lots of people use their phones right before sleeping and against immediately in the morning. 4 hours would probably be enough to avoid your device ever restarting mid-day and you wouldn’t the risk of your device rebooting while your alarm rings after 8 hours of sleep.
You are underestimating how often Cellebrite is used. Underestimating your enemy is the biggest mistake you could ever make, almost every anime teaches you that.