Sometimes I like to do a fresh restart on my smartphones and I was wondering if it can damage them.
Yes. It explodes.
I’m assuming you’re not doing it every 10 seconds so it really shouldn’t be a problem not that there’s evidence that it would be if you did
Btw you don’t need to keep restarting it, it’s a modern phone they are fine
No
Theoretically, wiping and restoring could wear the flash storage further. Though before your drive dies you’ll probably replace it anyway.
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? :)