I start new phones as new but I don’t reset my current ones unless I need to

I have used phones for 4 years and never reset them

It won’t make any difference to the phones performance, but if you want to it won’t hurt it either do what you feel.

I’ve also heard some people recommend to reset your iPhone once a year. I’ve never done it actually, I don’t think it makes any noticeable difference, maybe it solves some problem that you have before restarting but if you don’t have any i can’t see the point.

I rest my iphone at night.

Do you mean a hard reset like wipe data and put it in factory default or a hard reboot with volume up/down, hold right button?

Hehehehehe

Only if you can’t fix something do you do a hard wipe. No need to reset every 6 months. Why would Apple design a phone that has to be reset so often?

I do a backup and full factory reset once every major OS version releases, but only then.

I have never had any issues, bugs nor anything similar that’s widely reported when new versions of iOS are released, and I believe that’s because upgrading always leave remnants of lingering trash. But that’s me.

I just “setup as new” a few days ago. I had a couple of bugs that had been so long standing I was convinced it had to be something wrong with my setup only and it was carrying over when I was restoring from backups. These bugs had followed me through multiple iPhone versions and multiple major iOS versions.

After doing the full reset and “setup as new”…those bugs still exist and it was a wasted effort.

Restoring from backup is fine.