Manage how you spend fourth dimension on your Android phone with Digital Wellbeing

On some phones, you can get info nigh how you lot spend fourth dimension on your phone, like how oft yous unlock it and how long you employ each app. Yous tin can use that info to better your digital wellbeing. For example, you tin can set app timers and schedule display changes.

Important:

  • Some of these steps work only on Android ten and upward. Learn how to check your Android version.
  • Some of these steps require you to affect the screen.

Prepare up Digital Wellbeing

To find Digital Wellbeing as an app, open up it in your Settings app and then turn on Show icon in the app list.

The first time yous open Digital Wellbeing, you need to set your profile.

  1. Open up your phone'due south Settings app.
  2. Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  3. Under "Your Digital Wellbeing tools," tap Show your data.

Tip:Y'all can also manage a kid's business relationship if y'all are the default parent account on their device. Learn near Family Link.

Manage your time in apps

Notice out how much time you spend in apps

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  3. The nautical chart shows your telephone use today. For more info, tap the nautical chart. For example:
    • Screen time: What apps you've had on screen and for how long
    • Unlocks: How ofttimes you've unlocked your phone and opened sure apps
    • Notifications: How many notifications yous've gotten and from which apps
  4. To get more info or change app settings, tap a listed app.

Limit how much time you spend in an app each solar day

Important: Some work and school accounts might not work with app timers.

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  3. Tap the chart.
  4. Next to the app you want to limit, tap Set timer.
  5. Choose how much time you can spend in that app. Then, tap Set.

Tip: When you run out of fourth dimension, the app closes and its icon dims. Keep in mind:

  • App timers reset at midnight.
  • To employ the app over again before midnight, follow steps ane–4 above and delete the app timer.

Manage your time on Google Chrome

Observe out how much fourth dimension y'all spend on websites

Limit how much time y'all spend on a website each day

Reduce distractions when you lot desire to disconnect

Schedule changes to get set for sleep

  1. Open your phone's Settings app.
  2. Become toDigital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  3. Tap Bedtime mode.
  4. Choose how Bedtime mode turns on:
    • Based on schedule: Set your outset and end times and the days of the week.
    • While charging at bedtime: Set "Later" and "Before" times, and charge your phone during that time frame.
  5. Customize: When Bedtime mode is on, yous can also plough on ane or both of these settings.
    • Grayscale: This removes your screen's colors.
    • Exercise Not Disturb: Learn how to avoid interruptions.

Tip: To chop-chop plow Bedtime mode on and off, you can add together the mode in the Quick Settings panel. After Bedtime mode is on, yous might find Grayscale in the console also.Learn how to apace change common settings.

Temporarily pause distracting apps

  1. Open your telephone's Settings app.
  2. Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls and then Focus style.
  3. Choose which apps yous want to suspension. When Focus mode is on, you lot can't use these apps and won't go notifications from them.
  4. Employ Focus mode when you desire to avert distractions.
    • To plough Focus style on or off, at the top, tap Plough on at present or Plough off at present.
    • To have Focus fashion plough on automatically, tap Set up a schedule.
    • To temporarily unpause apps when Focus mode is on, tap Take a intermission and choose a time limit.

Tip: On some phones, you can add focus mode to your Quick Settings. Learn near Quick Settings.

Reduce interruptions

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