The short answer is: not often at all. Smartphones are designed
to remain on all the time, broadly speaking. After all, the idea of a 'mobile
phone' is that you can always be contacted. (Smartphones are phones, remember?)
Of course you will need to restart your phone from time to time.
You will need to restart to install OS updates, if you are lucky enough to get
them. And on occasion if things are buggy and slow a restart will help.
You
could manually shut down processes and apps, and that may solve your problem,
but restarting does this job and also frees up RAM. Usually restarting your
phone will solve any problems you are having with your phone.
As with any computational hardware, if your phone is suddenly
running much hotter than usual it is worth trying a restart. But if you are
experiencing any of these regularly, there may be something wrong with your
smartphone. In general you shouldn't need to restart your smartphone very often
at all. Certainly not more than once or twice a week, even when it is older.
Of course, how your device runs is only one part of the
equation. Power draw is the other. Generally speaking restarting a smartphone
will drain battery life, and switching off your phone overnight (and then
restarting it) will use as much power as it takes to leave it on all the time.
Smartphones and tablets are designed to go to sleep and draw very little power.
So restart only when you need to.
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