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It will only reset every 3 days if you don't unlock it. I'm pretty sure most people unlock their phones within 3 days. There are some concerns from people using their phones as unattended mobile hotspots; this concern is valid there. However you can just disable the device PIN or turn off the feature in this case.





I dont unlock the secondary phone. Only charge it every few days.

Disabling the PIN reduces security (what kind of "hacker" gives such bad advice?).

I bet we wont be able to disable that feature in few months.

Pain in the butt with work phone too - take 3 day holidays and it stopps working.

Bad feature created by people who dont think.

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Ah. Now this finally makes more sense than generic 'its for your security'.

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