[ Tech - News ] Digital Wellbeing Gets New Focus Mode!

Dinesh Vishwakarma · 发表于 2019-05-10 15:28:29

[div align="center"][a href="https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2146717&aid=4209886&from=album&page=1"][img id="aimg_4209886" width="627" height="353" src="https://u01.appmifile.com/images/2019/05/10/1d041d7a-473f-4fda-bcd4-530cf2008902.png" alt="images (2).png" title="images (2).png"][/a][/div][div align="left"][font color="#000"]This week[strong]Google I/O[/strong]was held and it was announced that a new 'Focus Mode' will be added to the[strong]Digitel Wellbeing[/strong]app which itself was intorduced at last year's I/O conference.[/div][div align="left"][font color="#000"][br][/div][div align="left"][div id="J_shareDesc"][div align="left"][font color="#000"]Last year at GoogleI/O, Google introduced a host of new digital well-being tools aimed at helping people better manage their screen time, track app usage and configure their device’s "[strong]Do not disturb"[/strong]settings. Today, Google is updating its suite of tools to include a new feature called "[strong]Focus Mode"[/strong]that lets you temporarily[strong]disable distracting apps[/strong]while not missing critical information, as well as a few new features for users of its[strong]Parental control[/strong]software,[strong]Family Link,[/strong]which is now part of the Android OS.[/div][div align="left"][font color="#000000"][br][/div][div align="left"][div align="center"][a href="https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2146717&aid=4209910&from=album&page=1"][img id="aimg_4209910" width="776" height="569" src="https://u01.appmifile.com/images/2019/05/10/58361c37-7ca8-43b0-87c1-03f865be5cbb.png" alt="Mi Community1557453174756.png" title="Mi Community1557453174756.png"][/a][/div][br][div align="center"][strong]Focus Mode[/strong][/div][br][font color="#000"]With[strong]Focus Mode[/strong], a new feature for Android devices, you can turn off the apps you personally find distracting while you’re trying to sit down and get things done. For example, you could disable updates from distracting social media apps or email, but could choose to leave texting on so family members could reach you in an emergency.[br][br][font color="#000"]Though not mentioned during the announcement, the feature also could help people enjoy their devices in their downtime — like streaming from Netflix without getting bothered by Slack notifications and work email. That’s not necessarily a way to reduce screen time — which is what a lot of today’s digital well-being features provide. Instead, it’s about finding balance between when it’s time to work and when it’s not, and what things deserve our attention at a given time.[br][br][font color="#000"]Also unveiled today at[strong]Google I/O[/strong]were new features for[strong]Family Link,[/strong]Google’s software that lets parents control what kids can do on their devices, and track their usage.Now,[strong]parents can set time limits on specific apps[/strong]instead of just "[strong]screen time" in[/strong]general.[br][br][font color="#000"]This is similar in a way to what Amazon’s FreeTime parental controls offer, as they allow parents to require that kids finish their reading before they can play games, for example. In Google’s case, it’s instead allowing parents to limit certain apps they believe are distractions to children.[br][br][div align="center"][a href="https://c.mi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2146717&aid=4209911&from=album&page=1"][img id="aimg_4209911" width="776" height="431" src="https://u01.appmifile.com/images/2019/05/10/612ace95-96f5-4619-b2de-506556b938e0.png" alt="Mi Community1557453178796.png" title="Mi Community1557453178796.png"][/a][/div][br][div align="center"][strong]improvement After The Use of Digital Wellbeing[/strong][/div][br][font color="#000"]" She said these tools are already helping us to monitor our phone usage, as[strong]90% of[/strong]the time app timers helped users stick to their goals and there was a[strong]drop of 27% nightly usage[/strong]of phone credit goes to Wind Down. However, the details are not shared about how many users, on the whole, are actually getting benefitted of the digital well-being features.[br][br][br][h3][font color="#483d8b"][strong]Source's--([/strong][a href="https://www.thehansindia.com/tech/googles-digital-wellbeing-adds-focus-mode-family-link-and-improved-parental-controls-527655" target="_blank"]1[/a][strong])--([/strong][a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/google-expands-digital-wellbeing-tools-to-include-a-new-focus-mode-adds-improved-parental-controls-to-android/" target="_blank"]2[/a][strong])[/strong][/h3][/div][/div][/div]