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Smartphone addiction is a menace in our society. It has almost turn our hardworking youths to zombies and that is why Google has introduced the Digital well-being feature in the Android 9 Pie which is going to help curb the menace of smartphone addiction and reduce screen-time. It is also called “Time well spent”. It showcased at Google I/O 2018, to curb the excessive time spent on smartphones.



What is Digital Well-being?

It is next phase technology also called “time well spent” aimed at killing smartphone addiction among youths all over the world. Whether it is playing games, chatting with friends, social media, watching movies etc it makes no difference as they all lead to one thing which is smartphone addiction. Time Well Spent is an initiative by Google’s former Google employee Tristan Harris who left Google to start up this initiative because he felt smartphones have the capacity to become addictive and control the human mind and I think he is very correct.



Digital well-being features.

The new settings comes with a colorful looking donut chart, displaying the exact time spent on each app with the overall time spent in the middle and will also warn you if you overspend time on your phone.

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DASHBOARD



This feature will tell you exactly how much time you have spent on each app on your smartphone and goes even further to show you a bar chart at the top that compares your screen usage over the week.

APP TIMERS



With this feature you can set the time limit for every app in your smartphone especiall Instagram which can be very addictive. The timer will warn you if you have 30 minutes left and will automatically stop functioning as soon as the time limit for the day is reached. It’s for you own good.

Do Not Disturb (DND)



Unlike the previous Do Not Disturb, the revamped feature now completely justifies its name. In Android Pie, the Do Not Disturb mode lets you turn off sounds and al notifications on your phone so you don’t know if you have any notification until the DND mode is turned off.

SOURCE:https://techcapon.com/digital-well-being-android-9-pie-wants-to-kill-smartphone-addiction/

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Is this a feature on Pie only or an installable app across all Android versions?

alterswerve:
Is this a feature on Pie only or an installable app across all Android versions?

only on Android Pie but there are other third party apps on playstore that does almost the same thing

TechCapon:
only on Android Pie but there are other third party apps on playstore that does almost the same thing

Can you give examples please? And why this one by Tristan Harris could be better than others..

Thanks

alterswerve:


Can you give examples please? And why this one by Tristan Harris could be better than others..

Thanks

1. Forest

2. Instant – Quantified Self, Track Digital Wellbeing

3. Digital Wellbeing – Minify

4. ZenScreen – Track and limit screen time

5. Space – Break phone addiction

The one on Android pie comes embedded in the OS itself, which means it comes directly from Google while the others are apps you can download

TechCapon:


1. Forest

2. Instant – Quantified Self, Track Digital Wellbeing

3. Digital Wellbeing – Minify

4. ZenScreen – Track and limit screen time

5. Space – Break phone addiction

The one on Android pie comes embedded in the OS itself, which means it comes directly from Google while the others are apps you can download

Thanks man!

alterswerve:


Thanks man!

you're welcome