Digital Wellbeing is a feature on Android developed by

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. It was announced during the

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event 2018 as an approach that would help users learn how to balance their

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lives by tracking how much time they spend on any particular application.

History

launched Digital Wellbeing in 2018. It was introduced as part of Android 9.0 ("Pie"). The first stable release was made available in November 2018, exclusively for

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and

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devices.

Features

Digital Wellbeing is installed via the

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, and appears as an additional item in the settings app. Digital Wellbeing includes a dashboard showing the time consumed for each app, the number of notifications received and number of screen unlocks. It also introduces new "Do Not Disturb" and "Wind Down" modes; the latter mode switches the screen to a

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mode for a specified start and end night time, to discourage night-time smartphone use.

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