This tiny device blocks apps on your phone to remove distractions.

At a time of peak exhaustion with our smartphones and being inundated with study after study that shows how excessive screentimes increase our chances of experiencing insomnia, anxiety, and depression ...

As social media continues to favour endlessly addictive short-form videos and infinite scrolling, it’s little surprise that many of us are starting to feel uncomfortably close to the humans in Wall.E.

You can also set up more targeting blocking. My "focus mode" ends up blocking about 40 distracting apps including messages, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve been scrolling social media lately, you may have seen the buzz about the “Brick” — and no, it’s not a literal brick. The ...

The ‘Brick’ started strong, but it certainly hasn’t turned my phone into a ‘brick’ just yet. I enjoyed the novelty when ...

Along the bell curve of self-control, I sit somewhere in that far left quadrant. When attempting to change my own behavior, I’m a notoriously lenient boss, always willing to cut myself a little slack.

I spend about 4 hours a day on my phone, checking emails, responding to texts, scrolling through social media, and checking the weather. That's four hours I could be spending read ...

I don’t remember exactly when it happened. Probably around 2012, when I downloaded Instagram to my iPhone and posted my first heavily filtered image. In the years that followed, the iPhone, which had, ...

Digital detox tools are everywhere, but this one adds a physical step between you and your phone, raising questions about how ...

The “Brick” is a device that locks chosen apps on your phone until you physically return to it, helping users curb mindless scrolling TikTokers including @haleyreidtay say it has made their phone time ...