Your phone can now remind you when you’ve used an app for too long

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• Google is rolling out a new Digital Wellbeing feature to help you spend less time on distracting apps without completely locking you out.
• The new feature, called Screen time reminders, gently nudges you to stop using an app when you’ve spent too much time on it.
• It displays a pill-shaped notification at the top of the screen that shows the amount of time you’ve spent on the app.

The Digital Wellbeing app is getting a new feature to help you spend less time in distracting apps. Instead of completely blocking you out, the new feature gently nudges you with a reminder at the top of your screen when you spend too much time on a selected app.

We first spotted this feature in a teardown of the Digital Wellbeing app last month, and it has now started showing up for some users (H/T Mishaal Rahman). Google has made some changes to the feature since our previous report, and it’s now called Screen time reminders instead of Mindful Nudge.




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