Tag: digital wellbeing

Android update delivers new ‘Bedtime’ features focused on improving sleep

At Google’s 2018 I/O developer conference, the company debuted a new suite of “digital well-being” aimed at helping Android users better manage their screen time. At its 2019 event, it expanded its tools’ capabilities and improved the related parental controls. Although Google I/O isn’t taking place this year due to…

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YouTube can tell you to stop watching and go to sleep

Perhaps now more than ever, it's all too easy to get sucked into the bottomless well of YouTube, watching autoplaying videos for hours on end until you realize it's well past your typical bedtime. In an expansion of its screen time management and dig… Source

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Facebook’s new ‘Quiet Mode’ option lets you turn off the app’s push notifications

Facebook today is launching a new feature called “Quiet Mode” that will allow you to minimize distractions by muting the app’s push notifications for a time frame you specify. The company announced the change as an update on its COVID Newsroom post, describing it as a way for users to…

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