Digital Wellbeing Introduction

Digital Wellbeing is a feature on Android developed by Google. It was announced during the Google I/O event 2018 as an approach that will help users teach how to balance their Digital lives by tracking how much time users spend on any particular application.

It provides features like Focus Mode, Bedtime Mode, App Limits and Dashboard to help monitor and build healthy habit for phone usage. It is pre-installed in Android devices, and encourages balanced mobile usage so you can reclaim your time and focus it where you’d want.

More: https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/digital-wellbeing

Overview

Feature: Group-Wise Time Limits for Applications

Description: Allow users to create groups of apps and set a total screen time limit for the entire group collectively. Once the limit is breached, all apps in the group are disabled.

Objectives

Current Digital Wellbeing features allow users to set limits on individual apps, but this does not address the issue of cumulative screen time across similar apps, such as entertainment or social media. By introducing group-wise time limits, the aim is to:

• Promote healthier digital habits by providing a more comprehensive way to manage screen time
• Enhance user satisfaction by addressing a common pain point of managing time across multiple apps
• Help users balance their app usage across different categories

Feature Overview

• Group Creation: Users can create custom groups of apps and add relevant apps to these groups. (Ex. "Entertainment" or "Socials" or “Games”)
• Time Limit Setting: Users can set a time limit for each group. The screen time for the apps in the group will then cumulatively count towards this limit
• App Disabling: Once the group's time limit is reached, all apps within the group will be disabled - similar to the current functionality but extended to all apps in a group

User Stories

Requirements

Functional Requirements

Non-Functional Requirements