NO! It is even highly discourage to attempt to root your phone as it risks "permanent" damage to the device especially when done with someone with no prior knowledge nor experience in rooting. (Jailbreaking is the equivalent term of rooting in Apple devices.)
What rooting does is give you root access (something like admin/system privileges) to your device. This means that after rooting you can modify the software code of the device and/or install other software that the manufacturer wouldn't normally allow you to, which is very risky considering there are many malicious app out there and might also overwrite system data files need by the device.
People usually root their phones when they try to install a cheat/hack that will give them free access to something (like a free internet) or a game hack as they can now freely modify the data installed and hidden on the device.
Because of this very same reasons, one who have no knowledge on what data file they are modifying, deleting, installing and/or moving risks the phone's security and processes running in the background. A 12Kb Data File named CHasd77123hnASqwe (totally random string) could be seen as a spam data file and be deleted by the user, but that data file could be used by the device when rebooting. The moment that file is deleted or overwritten then you can no longer reboot your phone.
This is one of the many risks of rooting your device and is the main reason why manufacturers don't give users 'root access' to the device, to avoid any tampering/modifying of code and data used by the device.
No it's not and although it doesn't actually do any damage to your phone if you do it, if you don't do it the right way then you might end up completely wrecking your phone.
Rooting your device gives you full access on your phone as well as your OS and if there's anything you don't like about the OS, like maybe how the app drawer is, when your phone has been rooted then you can do this easily. It will let you permanently get rid of apps you don't like, including bloatware and that on its own is a big plus.
But in today's phones, rooting isn't really necessary because most people are already very ok with their phones OS and capabilities so the idea of rooting a phone just isn't as appealing as it once before. Adding to that is the fact that phones are so much more expensive than they were a couple of years ago, so of a phone happens to get damaged, then the cost of repairing it or getting a new one will probably prove too steep for most people.
On the long run, for the average user, there is absolutely no need to root a phone, most people won't even be able to tell the difference between a rooted phone and a non-rooted phone. So to answer your question, No, rooting a phone is not necessary.
NO! It is even highly discourage to attempt to root your phone as it risks "permanent" damage to the device especially when done with someone with no prior knowledge nor experience in rooting. (Jailbreaking is the equivalent term of rooting in Apple devices.)
What rooting does is give you root access (something like admin/system privileges) to your device. This means that after rooting you can modify the software code of the device and/or install other software that the manufacturer wouldn't normally allow you to, which is very risky considering there are many malicious app out there and might also overwrite system data files need by the device.
People usually root their phones when they try to install a cheat/hack that will give them free access to something (like a free internet) or a game hack as they can now freely modify the data installed and hidden on the device.
Because of this very same reasons, one who have no knowledge on what data file they are modifying, deleting, installing and/or moving risks the phone's security and processes running in the background. A 12Kb Data File named CHasd77123hnASqwe (totally random string) could be seen as a spam data file and be deleted by the user, but that data file could be used by the device when rebooting. The moment that file is deleted or overwritten then you can no longer reboot your phone.
This is one of the many risks of rooting your device and is the main reason why manufacturers don't give users 'root access' to the device, to avoid any tampering/modifying of code and data used by the device.
No it's not and although it doesn't actually do any damage to your phone if you do it, if you don't do it the right way then you might end up completely wrecking your phone.
Rooting your device gives you full access on your phone as well as your OS and if there's anything you don't like about the OS, like maybe how the app drawer is, when your phone has been rooted then you can do this easily. It will let you permanently get rid of apps you don't like, including bloatware and that on its own is a big plus.
But in today's phones, rooting isn't really necessary because most people are already very ok with their phones OS and capabilities so the idea of rooting a phone just isn't as appealing as it once before. Adding to that is the fact that phones are so much more expensive than they were a couple of years ago, so of a phone happens to get damaged, then the cost of repairing it or getting a new one will probably prove too steep for most people.
On the long run, for the average user, there is absolutely no need to root a phone, most people won't even be able to tell the difference between a rooted phone and a non-rooted phone. So to answer your question, No, rooting a phone is not necessary.