Android is getting a gentle new way to combat your doomscrolling habit

• Google has announced Pause Point, a new Android Digital Wellbeing feature designed to interrupt distracting app sessions.
• It doesn’t stop you like a timer, but it will interrupt longer app sessions with prompts for you to pause and reflect.
• Google says more Digital Wellbeing features are coming later this year.

Android already has tools to help you keep your app habits in check, but anyone who has ever opened Instagram for “two minutes” knows how quickly good intentions can evaporate. Google wants to acknowledge that most of us wish we doomscrolled a little less, and now has a feature designed to step in while you’re actively using an app that tends to swallow more of your time than planned.

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