Digital Wellbeing hands-on: Prepare to be scared off of your phone forever

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Digital Wellbeing hands-on: Prepare to be scared off of your phone forever[br]Google introduced a new feature it calls [a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-dashboard-863014/"]Digital Wellbeing[/a] back at the I/O 2018 developer conference, designed to help Android users monitor their phone and app usage. While the feature wasn’t available throughout the [a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-p-beta-3-changes-882360/"]Android P Beta Program[/a], Google yesterday released a beta version of the app alongside the first official build of [a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/android-9-pie-name-download-features-whats-new-892566/"]Android 9.0 Pie[/a].[br][br]As someone who relies on their phone for almost all digital communication and scrolls through several social media apps multiple times a day, I expected Digital Wellbeing would reflect my heavy usage. Despite this, when I first opened the app, I was blown away by the detail of information I was confronted with. I wanted to immediately silence all notifications and throw my phone to the other side of my house. [br][br]Let’s take a look at how Digital Wellbeing works. [br][br][br][br]Dashboard[br][br]Once installed, Digital Wellbeing becomes an option in the phone’s settings menu. Jumping into it, users are greeted with a chart that breaks down how long the phone was used that day and which apps were most active. [br][br]Below the chart is where the data started to amaze me. Not only does Digital Wellbeing keep track of how long an app has been used, but it also monitors the number of times the user has unlocked the handset and how many notifications have popped up on the phone.[br][br]For me, the day wasn’t even close to being over and I had unlocked my [a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-2-xl-review-805069/"]Pixel 2 XL[/a] almost 60 times and had received nearly 900 notifications. By the time I’d finished writing this piece, my total number of unlocks reached more than 70 and my notifications had jumped to over 1,000.[br][br]EDITOR'S PICK[br][br]Android 9 Pie review: Closing the gap[br][br]In the app’s Dashboard menu, you get a look at some more detailed information (see the screenshots below). Users can organize the data by screen time, notifications received, and times opened. After looking at the detailed breakdown from each category, users can set a timer for individual apps. With these set, Digital Wellbeing gives users reminders about how much time they have left to browse a particular app and will revoke access to it once that limit is reached. [br][br]Unlike the [a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-take-a-break-864783/"]“take a break” feature[/a] that was introduced in the YouTube app several months ago, users can’t just dismiss the time limit. If they want back into the app, they have to go into the phone’s settings menu and disable the Digital Wellbeing timer. While this isn’t a complicated process, it’s just tedious enough to make users consider their app usage and if it’s worth the effort just to keep scrolling through Instagram.[br][br][a href="https://cdn57.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/digital-wellbeing-dashboard-1-300x600.jpg"][/a][br][br]

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