Whenever we have free time, oftentimes we will spend it doing one thing: using our phones. Throughout the last couple of years, our reliance on our mobile devices has grown tremendously, enough where we use it as our main form of communication, even over person-to-person talking. Based upon a study in 2017, an average person now uses their mobile devices around two and a half hours per day. That would be over ten percent of your day already gone. Because of this, many companies, including software developers and device manufacturers, have began to implement features to make you use your device less.
The most common of these new features is one which tracks down how long you use your device or app for a set time, usually a day. Apps such as YouTube and Instagram have already began rolling out these features into the newest versions of their mobile applications. Often-times, they will also come with an option to warn you if you were to spend over a certain amount of time on any said application on your devices. Some companies will go even as far as to shut down their apps if you use them over said amount of time you allowed for it.
Device manufacturers such as Google and Apple will roll out these features of their respective versions of the mobile operating systems of Android and iOS. It is same to assume that these implementations will be similar to that offered in the various mobile applications. Expect many more companies to follow this trend over the next couple of months as the public is becoming even more increasingly attached to their devices.
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