This Android feature quietly improved my daily routine

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Credit: Matt Horne / Android Authority


2024 is the first year that I’m actually taking my New Year’s resolutions seriously. I wrote down a bunch of them and even kept working on them past the end of January — beating my previous record. They’re modest goals, but I’ve made good progress. Compared to last year, I’m eating better, drinking less, and exercising more. The one that was really eluding me until recently was my bedtime routine. I wasn’t getting to sleep on time consistently, so I finally decided I needed a bit of assistance from my phone.

It won’t surprise you to learn that it was my Android phone that regularly derailed my otherwise healthy day at the final hurdle. Even if I started winding down, I’d idly reach for my device once I was in bed and suddenly find that 45 minutes had disappeared. It took me a while to realize that this was a significant problem, and once I did, I decided to give the Android Digital Wellbeing settings a try. It was Bedtime mode that eventually got me to ignore my device, and I can’t recommend it highly enough to anyone else with the same problem.




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