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These changes are a good thing.
Requiring a pin means no one can use your fingerprint or your face to unlock your device.
An NSA agent recommended restarting your phone every week. This can potentially clear out malware that doesn't have permissions to start after a reboot.
It's more than that. After restart your phone goes into a more-secure Before First Unlock (BFU) state so it's much harder to penetrate.
Apple started doing this a few months ago and I guess Google is just catching up.
Thank you for the info.
I read up more on BFU and I didn't realize that encryption was a requirement for Android 10 and higher.
Very interesting.
What I read: Dakota State University DigForCE Lab: BFU and AFU Lock States
Yeah I learned about it from reading up on the Israeli hacking software called Pegasus. There were several devices that they could hack in AFU state but not in BFU state.