All about Digital Wellbeing: the Android Pie app against smartphoneverslaving

Smartphoneverslaving is a growing problem, and the Android Pie and are trying to do something about it with Digital Wellbeing. This is everything you need to know about the app that your smartphonegebruik reduces.

Digital Wellbeing: everything you need to know

216 times. So I often use my phone on average per day. Because I am not the only with a smartphoneverslaving struggling, Android 9.0 (Pie) a new app: Digital Wellbeing. This set of functions provides a better balance between the ‘real’ life and your phone calls.

In this article you will read everything you need to know about this app at smartphoneverslaving:

At the time of writing is Digital Wellbeing in beta and only available for Google’s own Pixel-phones and the Nokia 7 Plus. So go busy yourself with your smartphoneverslaving:

Digital Wellbeing is, in principle, no separate app, but you can find in the settings menu. It is a collection of existing and new features.

The central point of Digital Wellbeing is the dashboard. To a addiction to address, you must first know how you are doing. The dashboard lets on app level to see how much time you have each day with your smartphone. Also, here, you see how often you use your phone, have it unlocked, and how many notifications there are to enter.

As soon as you press an app from the circle tap, you see the use of the last week per day. Because of this, you can recognize quickly and easily the peak times. You can also filter by the number of received notifications and the times that the app you have open.

When you are ready to take the helm to throw, it is time to alarm clocks to set. If you want to spend less time on Instagram and WhatsApp? Set a timer that indicates the use of these apps. You will receive a warning just before your time is done and when the alarm ‘goes off’ closes the app automatically. A notice explains that you are over your daily limit back are gone and the application is therefore unable to start.

The icon of the app is grey and when you try to open, it is explained that you are no more time about. A quite rigorous measure, but you can make yourself more minutes by the timer otherwise. Wean you smartphoneverslaving do so by at app-level alarms: a smart move by Google. This allows you to your smartphone namely, to continue to use in emergencies where, for example, you need to call.

Wind Down ensures that your smartphone is not (or less often) to bed. It Is time to go to sleep? Then the screen of your smartphone grey. This makes it less tempting to your phone there to tackle, since all the colors are gone. Apps eyes are boring and you brain will not wake up held by all sorts of colors and effects.

In the dashboard, you will indicate what time you normally go to sleep, and then Wind Down is enabled. Then, you will indicate what time you normally wake up in the morning, and your screen, so color shows.

You can also find in the dashboard of Digital Wellbeing also two options that have been in Android, but now a more convenient place. By pressing ‘notifications management’ allows you to select what apps you a notification to receive, and which are not. For example, it is possible to have no sounds to be heard for incoming WhatsApp messages, but when you receive a call.

In addition, dampens the do not disturb mode to temporarily all of the alerts if you are completely not derived to be. In the future, is it possible to use your phone with its screen down to turn and then the not-disturb mode is automatically activated. Currently you need the function to activate in the dashboard.

Conclusion: does it work?

The big question is, of course, or Digital Wellbeing you smartphoneverslaving resolves. Although the time, of course, this should reveal, the early signs are promising. Digital Wellbeing has ensured that I become more aware with my smartphone, trying to grapple, and to him is also actually less use. In particular, the app clocks Wind Down, I find useful additions.

Thanks to the alarm clocks, I am faced with my own behavior and I take (until now) is not worth the trouble to set the number of minutes that I have an app per day may use up to screws. In addition, I let my phone actually earlier when Wind Down asset is. Because the screen totally gray colors, is my phone all of a sudden a lot less interesting.

Of course, there are still plenty of areas of improvement, in spite of the good beginning. There is in my opinion especially work to be done in terms of notifications mute. Currently, the notifications of apps lumped together. While an application like Maps you dozens of notifications it can send. You know if not what kind of notifications you the most to distract, but you have to gamble.

Example: you know that you are on a certain day twelve Maps-notifications have been received, but have no idea which of the dozens of categories that reports fall. Thus, it is unclear what options you mention must impose in order no longer to be disturbed.

The final version of Digital Wellbeing somewhere in the fall of 2018, with the release of Android 9.1. Until that time, you can get started with the beta. which, incidentally, is in English only.

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16 August 2018, 21:40 | Views: 173