An iPhone on the rack only needs one pass a week. The order is fixed: does this one take a charge, is the body hot, has it been restarted this week, and how much storage is left. Record all four on the same weekly sheet, one row per device name.
Charging
Check device by device whether the battery level is rising. If it is not, change the cable first, then look at the port. The cable should be original or MFi-certified. When dozens of devices share a poor multi-port charger, the current is unstable, and the battery drops faster than in ordinary use.
Lightning and USB-C were not designed to stay plugged in. If you find during the week that it needs a wiggle before it has power, or the area around the port is blackened, take that device out of the queue. Do not wait until the whole group drops together. Dust cleaning can sit on the monthly pass. The weekly sheet only records whether it charged this week.
If the screen stays on for the script, power use is higher than with the screen locked. Keep brightness at the lowest level where you can still check the picture. A task that can run with the screen off should not charge at maximum brightness.
Heat
Feel the back of each device. Mark the hot ones on their own.
When phones sit side by side, leave a gap. Do not stack them. Do not let the stand block the speaker holes on the bottom or the intake. Mirroring has to keep sending the picture out, and the heat is more obvious than local taps alone. If a device is not running a script and is still hot, stop that one first. After it cools, see whether a background process is being pulled up over and over.
A sleep inside the script is less likely to heat the device into a restart than running it unbroken from morning to night. On the weekly sheet, write whether this device stopped for heat this week, and for how long.
Run status in central control helps you cross-check: the device that is hot or losing charge on the weekly sheet, and whether that same device is also dropping on the panel over and over. If they match, handle that device. Do not restart the whole rack.
Restart
Give each device one full restart a week, to let the cache go. Pick a gap with no tasks, and do it while someone is next to the machines. An old machine that goes a long time without a restart can stop on the white Apple on some later restart, once the cache is piled up, so do not wait until the system is already frozen for the first time you hold the power button.
After the restart, see whether it comes back online, and whether automation or mirroring can still connect. Write the ones that do not come back on the weekly sheet and handle them the same day. Do not leave them until next week.
Do not bind a system update to this restart. When you upgrade, try one or two devices first, confirm the scripts still run, and then consider the rest. The weekly restart only eases the cache of the system that is already running.
Storage
Open storage on each device and look at free space. Screenshots, log packages, and temp files the scripts drop will fill the phone over a few weeks. Once it is full, the phone slows down, and taps and mirroring hitch with it.
Record a remaining number on the weekly sheet, or “cleared”. When you clear, delete only files you have confirmed are script output. Do not uninstall the automation program that is in use just to free space.
If any one of the four items is marked abnormal, that device stays out of long tasks this week. It will not take a charge, it is hot, it does not come back after a restart, or storage is still almost zero after a clear. Any of those leaves the queue first.
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