Apple has unveiled digital wellbeing tools to help people reduce the time they spend glued to their screens.

 

苹果公司推出了一款数字健康工具，以帮助人们减少沉迷于手机的时间。

 

A new app called Screen Time will offer iPhone and iPad users a dashboard highlighting how much time they have spent using which apps, how many notifications they receive, how often they pick up their device and how their usage patterns compare to the average.

 

The app also lets users set daily time limits for individual apps, and a notification will be shown when the time limit is about to expire. Parents will be able to access their children's activity reports from their own devices to understand and manage their browsing¹ habits.

 

"Some apps send us flurries of notifications trying to draw us in for fear of missing out," said Apple's senior vice-president of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, speaking to a 6,000-strong audience at WWDC, Apple's annual developer conference, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose on Monday. "For some of us it's become such a habit we don't even recognise just how distracted we've become."

 

Screen Time will be available with iOS 12, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, which launches later this year.

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