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Re:Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015) by cgriswald on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:32PM (#12154467)
I'm not certainly most phones are "otherwise idle" given push notifications, apps phoning home, etc. But, most of those devices are probably on wifi when their owners are at their homes asleep in their beds.
Re:Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015) by tominous on Sunday July 24, 2016 @08:41PM (#12155762)
Phones turn off wifi whenever they can to save battery life. For example, Apple: "Notifications use Wi-Fi only when a cellular connection is unavailable." [1]

[1] https://support.apple.com/HT201925