Google Pixel 3 Keeps Restarting – What To Do

There are very few bugs as irritating as frequent reboots. Not being able to rely on your phone when you need it can overshadow even the best of features. This is especially true for devices as expensive as the Pixel 3.

Thankfully, this doesn’t happen often. Only a handful of users have experienced this issue, and there’s a variety of reasons why it might happen. In most cases, you should be able to deal with frequent reboots on your own. Let’s go over some of the main ways of doing this.

Check for Overheating

Pretty much every new phone has the ability to turn itself off when it overheats. This is done to prevent serious damages to the hardware and keep the user safe. The Pixel 3 is no different. Once it overheats, it’s likely to turn off or restart randomly.

This usually happens while the phone gets overwhelmed by heavy tasks. Despite the good hardware, large games, video editors, and hi-res videos might overheat your phone if you’ve been using it for a while.

If you notice that this is the case, simply turn off your device and leave it to cool off for half an hour or so. Don’t try to cool it by exposing it to low temperatures, as this too can cause hardware damages. Instead, just leave your phone at room temperature and let it cool down on its own.

Boot the Phone in Safe Mode

Booting your phone in Safe Mode is the best method of finding out whether there’s an app that’s causing the issue. Google’s stock apps shouldn’t do this, so 3^rd party apps are the ones to look for. Here’s how to do it:

1. With your phone powered on, hold the Power button until the Power off option appears, and then release.

2. Tap and hold Power off until you see the Reboot to safe mode

3. Tap OK to confirm.

Once in Safe Mode, your phone will disable all 3^rd party apps. Leave it like this for some time to check if the problem persists. If it doesn’t, it’s probably an app that’s causing your phone to reboot randomly, in which case you’ll want to start removing apps. Start with the most recently installed ones.

Wipe the Cache Partition

Cache gets accumulated as you use your phone. With time, your phone can get cluttered, which can cause various glitches. Moreover, some of the cache files might get corrupt, thereby preventing your phone from working as it should.

Since every app stores cache, removing the cache manually can be an exhausting task. Instead, you can just wipe the entire cache partition clean. Here’s how:

1. Turn off your phone.

2. Press and hold Volume Down + Power buttons for a few seconds.

3. When the Recovery Menu appears, release the buttons.

4. Use the Volume buttons to go to Recovery Mode and press the Power button to access it.

5. If the ‘No Command’ screen shows up, hold the Volume Up and Power

6. Once in recovery mode, select Wipe Cache Partition.

7. Exit recovery mode.

This will remove all cache files from your device, which may eliminate the pesky random reboots.

The Final Word

Seeing your phone reboot several times a day might be both frustrating and scary. Luckily, most of the time, it doesn’t have to mean that there’s something seriously wrong with it.

The above methods should solve the problem for good. If you have any other ideas that might help, feel free to share them in the comments section.