A Black Wallpaper Can Change Your Screen Habits: This And More Ways To Cut Down Screen Time

Screen Addiction On waking up, you check your work email on the phone and catch up on the lingering WhatsApp messages from the previous night. After swiftly responding to a few, you start your day. Then a compelling notification grabs your attention, leading you back to your phone. And that may prompt you to dive into social media pages. Before you know it, you find yourself caught in the endless scroll. This happens through the day and before you realise, your screen time skyrockets. Most of us are trapped in a relationship with our smartphones. The constant alerts of work emails, messages from work, friends, family and even your child’s school on Whatsapp, notifications from social media apps such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, updates from news and addictive gaming apps, they all create a web that is difficult to evade. So much so that they have become an essential part of our daily lives, making it tough to break free. Vivo recently published a report titled ‘Smartphones and their Impact on Human Relationships 2023,’ revealing some startling insights into people’s screen habits. The results show that 90% of people acknowledge their phones as an integral part of their lives....