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Doing a factory reset multiple times on an iPhone can ruin or damage it?! (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by ordinarycyberstar@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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Sometimes I like to do a fresh restart on my smartphones and I was wondering if it can damage them.

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[–] Silver_Key_8380@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I see some people here in the comments saying that it could damage it... but the real answer is that it's not damage but actual wear over time... any drive has a maximum write/ reads before the performance goes to shxt, but even then, before your storage is completely done in terms of write/reads health, you probably would have a new phone... I see people still running on 6s and iPhone 8, and I've never heard of any storage failure yet from an iPhone... Also reinitializing/wiping to factory data, your phone can fix some OS corruption along the way. So why would resets ruin or damage it ? :)

I used to wipe a lot of times my last 4 phones I got from android to iPhone Mix and never had any issues ( sometimes I would eventually wipe my phone storage like 40 times a month)

Just enjoy your phone and maybe stop wiping it continuously because it takes away your enjoyment time off your phone, don't you think? :)