Just tested my Pixel 1. It takes 24 seconds from button press to lock screen, and another 18 seconds for me to type my password and display everything on the home screen, but I'm a slow mobile typer and my password is 16 characters.

Just tested a Pixel 2 XL. 12 seconds to lock screen and 4 more to the home screen including my pattern entry. I think this is the fastest booting phone I've ever had.

Actually I had to do it twice because the first time it installed a system update, but even then it only took 26 seconds to install, finish booting, and show the lock screen. System updates have been seriously optimized in the last few Android releases. They used to take like 5 minutes.

> System updates have been seriously optimized in the last few Android releases. They used to take like 5 minutes.

On the Pixel phones Google uses two system partitions. One is the one you're currently running and the other one gets the update applied to it in the background without you having to stop using your phone. When you reboot it just has to flip which system partition it boots from and maybe do some first boot actions. If the phone starts up successfully it'll then apply the update to the original partition to keep them in sync.

Is this from off -> on or a reboot? I think I've noticed huge difference between the two on my Samsung in the past.

From off.

Thanks. I wonder if that’s for some random $50 low end phone.

My iPhone 8 was 20s to login screen. It basically instant once I login but that may be because my password takes a while to type and it’s loading the rest while I type.

I timed my iPhone SE when I read that. 25 seconds.

So I tried rebooting with all of my apps exited. 25 seconds.

I just tested my iPhone 8, it’s 20s to login screen.

Actually slower than I thought. I found an old blog post that says an iPhone 5 took about 35s, the slowest of the models they tested.

2x is nice but maybe it didn’t improve as much as I had thought.

https://www.ifixyouri.com/blog/iphone-6s-bootup-time-compari...

I think they did it this way deliberately as a kind of proof of concept.

That makes sense, but even if everything else takes three seconds (that’s overwhelming the small VM book time) I’m not sure what the real benefit of this is.

I’m sure it’s technically more secure than a sandboxed application running in its own VM in its own process but by how much?

for the fun of it, tested the boot time of a Nokia 130 (classic style feature phone), just under 10s if you cancel early at the greeting screen :)