How Google wants to take care of your well-being with this new Android alert

How Google wants to take care of your well-being with this new Android alert
How Google wants to take care of your well-being with this new Android alert

Google wants to evolve its “Digital Well-being” application to integrate a function to limit behaviors such as doomscrolling.

Smartphones are an integral part of our daily lives: a social tool, sources of information and entertainment, it is easy to spend hours on them, sometimes without realizing it. The teams ofAndroid Authorityhave spotted a new feature in Google’s “Digital Wellbeing” app that could remedy this and encourage users to put their phones down a little more.

Reasoned use

By observing the beta code of the “Digital Well-being” application, the teams ofAndroid Authority came across a feature called “Mindful Nodge” or “Reminders”.

This function, which does not yet have a definitive name, could be activated on specific applications and create reminders to warn users that they have spent “X” amount of time on them. Android Authority reports that as things stand, “Reminders” will be able to make these reminders on a limited number of apps: users may have to remove some before adding others.

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An air of déjà vu

These new features echo new consumption practices that can be found particularly among adolescents. Applications like Instagram or TikTok have, for example, put in place restrictions allowing limited daily use or even deleting notifications after a certain time.

If the application here is intended to be less restrictive rather than informative, there are also concentration modes on Android or iOS to reduce unwanted notifications about your working times or your disconnection times.


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