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Android’s Digital Wellbeing Tools, Tested: App Timers, Focus Mode and Spending Limits

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How many of us actually need Android to tell us how long we’ve spent staring at our phones? The glassy eyes and RSI accrued from all the YouTube rabbit holes tend to give the game away.

Still, hard numbers are difficult to argue with.

Open Digital Wellbeing and Android will tell you how many times you unlocked your phone, which apps held your attention and how many notifications arrived along the way. It’s not just doommongering though. Android wants to help.

The solutions include limiting individual apps, pausing groups of distractions, and even softening the blue light glare of the screen for when bedtime rolls around.

The question is whether any of that actually changes how you use the phone.…

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