How Do I Get a Handle on My Social Media Addiction?

An Android app is NSFW Reels also already in development and should be here in «weeks, not months,» English says. I didn’t love that, either, but it went back to the scroller soon enough. I’ve noticed plenty of changes in the five months I’ve been using it, too. The streaks feature, for instance, was only added after the first few weeks the app was available, after he got feedback from users who said they’d like to see something like that.

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You’re encouraged to get your steps in and you can still enjoy the fun apps—in moderation. Enter Steppin, a completely free iPhone app that, like plenty of others, blocks access to distracting apps. None of that is particularly good for me, and watching it over and over stops me from getting things done in my real life, though I do really love those marshmallow videos. I love to be productive, I love to exercise, but I also love (or at least find myself) getting sucked into marathon Reels-bingeing sessions on Instagram.

The only issue with these is that they’re pretty easy to just ignore. There are tons of apps out there you can download to help curb your social media addiction. Apple provides different focus modes for your phone when you swipe down from the top of your home screen. You can then create a “sleep” mode and choose the hours you don’t want any alerts. This will prevent it from throwing out a notification every time someone else sends a link, asks a question, or replies to something. You can tap the chat name and press the “bell” button to mute the entire chat.

(If you ask me, a daily reset is for true self-improvement sickos and choosing to never reset it is the cheap way out. Weekly is the way to go!) When you use Steppin, you can trade your steps for minutes on your blocked apps at any time. I started using Steppin five months ago so I could write a review, but I ended up enjoying it so much that I’m now on a 158-day streak. Some folks even just delete their problem apps during the work day so they can at least concentrate on productivity during business hours. That gets tricky, of course, because accidents and emergencies do pop up, and you may want 24/7 instantaneous access to your phone.

I already get plenty of steps in on a daily basis, but this has certainly encouraged me to do more. Feedback and actual user data determine a lot about what happens to Steppin, so for now, I’m using it every day to do my part. But Steppin could include a lot more than just new versions, functionality tweaks, or streaks over time. I’d have to open Steppin again, trade another five minutes in, and ultimately «spend» 10 minutes just to redeem five. He explained that he came up with the idea while on vacation with his family, noticing that no one was looking at their phones while they walked around, but as soon as they got into a car to travel to a farther destination, everyone was glued to their screens.

• As your phone or fitness tracker detects steps, they get converted into minutes that you bank and can then convert back into time to unlock your apps.
• Her husband, Carl, cheated on her, was physically violent, and indirectly caused the death of their daughter.
• There are tons of apps out there you can download to help curb your social media addiction.
• Such posts may be restricted with warning labels.
• Would that mean I couldn’t look at Instagram at all on a day where I didn’t hit my step goal?
• The study found that underage users saw three times more restricted content featuring nudity, 1.7 times more violent material, and 4.1 times more bullying-related posts than users over 30.

My feed is full of violent and sensitive stuff! Although Meta has apologised and claimed to have fixed the problem, some users claim that they are still seeing violent and graphic content on their feeds. Either way, it’s disturbing,” a user posted on X. Such posts may be restricted with warning labels. While some of these posts were marked as “Sensitive Content,” they were still accessible, raising concerns about Instagram’s content moderation policies.