Digital Wellbeing, the integrated Android application that helps us control the use of our mobile phone and its applications, now has a new tool: screen time reminders. Activating it will help you understand more about how long you’ve been using an app.

Of course, sometimes this happens to you when you use an app and find time flies by without you even realizing it. This is exactly what will help you avoid those screen time reminders that appear superimposed on the screen. How long have you been using an app?occasionally (if you’ve been with him for a while).

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If you want some control over the use of your mobile phone, Digital Wellbeing can be your best ally. This suite of utilities includes various options so you can manage and control the use of your mobile phone and its applications. I gained a new feature This is already active for all users.

HE Call Screen Time Reminders and you will find it along with the rest in the Digital Wellbeing settings of the mobile phone. If you enable it, it will show a little pill at the top of the screen that tells you how long you’ve been using a particular app (if you’ve been using it for a while).

Screen time reminders They are disabled by defaultso you should activate the main power switch Use reminders in Digital Wellbeing > Screen time reminders. By doing this, they will be enabled for all the apps installed on your mobile, but you can uncheck the boxes of some of them so that you do not receive notifications even though you spend a lot of time using them.

These reminders They are more subtle over other digital wellbeing options, They do not prevent us from continuing to use the application. They just show us that we have been using a particular application for a long time and that we will be the ones to make the decision to stop or continue.

via | Android Authority

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