Apple announces new iOS feature Screen Time to combat device addiction

Like any self-styled benevolent overlord hosting a conference to fete itself, Apple wants to make one thing clear: It cares about your well-being. 

And so, at today’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi announced a new set of iOS features designed to combat a scourge of its own making: so-called device addiction. 

Federighi teed up the announcement with an acknowledgment that apps “beg us to use our phone,” and that “we might not even recognize just how distracted we become.”

Indeed, it’s hard to truly become an enlightened shaman when you stare at Instagram all day long.  Read more…

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