If you go a few days without touching your phone, it will automatically restart. This is a security feature that was introduced in iOS 18 so that if a bad actor gets a hold of your phone, they can't unlock it with your face or fingerprint. The most common reason that I've heard for why this feature exists is that especially in the US, if law enforcement suspects you to have some kind of involvement in something criminal, even if you've done no such thing, they will often try to argue that using Face ID or your fingerprint to unlock your phone is not incriminating, and some courts have agreed with this. So the automatic restart is designed to disable that, so they need to know your passcode in order to get into your phone. And you are not required to give them your passcode.
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