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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 ...

Can't stop doom scrolling or rushing to check every notification buzz? If your New Year's resolutions include better boundaries with your phone, then you've come to the right place. According to ...

New research suggests passive phone scrolling late at night may be an early warning sign of worsening mental health.

I often snap screenshots on my smartphone, typically to create images for the articles I write. But sometimes I need to capture more of the screen than I can see at once. For instance, I may want to ...

When stress starts to feel overwhelming, we often turn to distractions like “doomscrolling” on our phones to cope. This is especially true when we don't already have healthier habits to lean on, ...

There are a number of consequences from too much screen time or social media usage during the day, but a study from Frontiers in Psychiatry found that nighttime phone usage also has profound impacts ...

Personality traits of late-night scrolling - a psychologist shares what your bedtime phone habits may say about your ...

Earlier this year I had to confront a sobering truth ... I am addicted to my phone. Every Sunday for the past couple of years I’ve received a screen time data analysis, courtesy of Apple, that would ...

After years of mindless scrolling, one simple device helped me cut my screen time in half and feel calmer, more present and ...