If you want to limit your screen time or stop doomscrolling, both Apple and Google have digital well-being features to help you disconnect. Newer generations of software, iOS 26 and Android 16, have ...

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YouTube offers a Shorts feed limit feature that helps users manage how much time they spend scrolling short-form videos. This setting is useful for mindful viewing and is available directly within the ...

Apple’s Screen Time tools need some work. Not counting serious bugs that go unfixed far too long, one of Screen Time’s major drawbacks is that any limits you set can be easily bypassed. Ultimately, ...

Here’s how to set daily time limits on YouTube Shorts and help your kids watch responsibly while staying aware of screen time.

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

As a young millennial, I had a pretty tech-free childhood, save for cable television and the occasional AOL/AIM log-on. It wasn’t until I was a preteen that I started to get interested in MySpace, ...

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Notifications can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Though they'll sometimes alert you of something important—i.e., your child is sick and needs to be picked up from school—other times they ...