Digital wellbeing
The term Digital Wellbeing ( "Digital Wellbeing") are initiatives of major Internet provider Google , Facebook and Apple understood the duration of the smartphone to limit -use, thus smartphone and Internet addiction prevention.
The functionalities are made available with Android P, which will be available from the end of 2018. Specifically, this includes a dashboard that shows usage behavior. In addition, there is, for example, an option that enables the usage time for apps to be restricted. With a special " do not disturb " mode, you can also control exactly when notifications should be displayed. And finally, with the " Wind Down " mode, the " Do not disturb " mode should be activated automatically. In addition, the screen content is grayed out to signal to the user that it is time to go to bed.
Apple
The initiative was one of the central announcements at the Apple developer conference WWDC in early June 2018. The functionalities are now being delivered under the name Screen Time with the operating system version iOS12 . Here, too, there should be overviews that show how much time users spend with the device and in individual apps. Apple was recently even asked by investor Jana Partners to do more about it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Why Apple, Facebook and Google are concerned about your "digital well-being" . ( yahoo.com [accessed June 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Android P - digitally tied up . In: digitally tied up . May 9, 2018 ( digitalgefesselt.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).
- ↑ Check iPhone usage time with the "Screen Time" function . In: iPhone-Tricks.de . ( iphone-tricks.de [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Apple is planning new iOS features to prevent excessive iPhone use. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .