NSA says you should restart your phone every week: Here’s why

According to Forbes, a recently revealed NSA document dating years back shares best practices for keeping your smartphone safe from threat actors and suggests that restarting your phone now and then can help with some zero-day exploits and malware that might be running on your phone. NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware is also known for using zero-day exploits to spy on its targets.

The phones mentioned in the document are from the early 2010s and consist of iPhones with the home button and some Samsung Galaxy devices, but the advice still holds some weight.