How to Limit Your Time Spent on Instagram
Do you spend too much time on Instagram? Perhaps you don’t even know how long you mindlessly scroll through your Instagram feed, looking at pictures of celebrities, animals, and food that are ultimately not interesting.
If you feel you need to cut down on your Instagram usage, the Android and iOS apps have a feature that reminds you to take a break after a specified amount of time. Here’s how to use it.
how to set time limit on instagram
It may sound counterintuitive, but Instagram wants you to take a break from its app. At least, that’s what it publicly claims, especially after growing public concern about the harmful relationship many youths are having with social media.
If you use Instagram on your Android or iOS device, you can set up a concurrent and daily time limit that reminds you to take a break and close the app. This feature is not available on other devices, such as if you access Instagram via the web.
Select the time spent. This screen shows the average amount of time you’ve spent using Instagram over the past week.
You can manage your time through two options: set reminders to take breaks and set daily time limits. The former reminds you to take a break when you spend a while on Instagram, while the latter is for overall use during the day.
Choose the amount of time you want to elapse before receiving reminders.
If you don’t want Instagram to hook you up, you can also stop notifications. To do this, from the Time Lapse screen, go to Notification settings > Pause all and select a time.
Is Instagram doing enough to limit usage?
It’s nice that Instagram tracks how much time you spend on the app and provides features that remind you to step away. However, it’s too easy to dismiss these reminders and keep scrolling.
Thus, you may want to use Screen Time on iOS or Digital Wellbeing on Android—these utilities can lock you out of apps so you can actually resist temptation.
For many people the smartphone has become our world. And some people are completely addicted to technology. Apple and Google both understand this problem and have added digital wellness tools to their software. The Screen Time feature present on most Apple devices shows you detailed statistics on how you spend time on your iPhone, iPad or Mac.
Once you’ve looked at the data and realized how much you use your phone, you can use new tools to limit the amount of time you spend on certain apps and on your iPhone in general. Huh. Let’s take a look at how to use Screen Time on your iPhone.
What is screen time?
Screen Time is Apple’s digital wellness feature that tracks your device usage throughout the day. It summarizes how much time you spent on your device in a day (or a week), which apps you used the most, and more. A graphical representation of your usage makes it easy to assess and reduce your iPhone usage.
Screen Time is present on iPhones, iPads, and Macs and can be used for a variety of functions, including parental restrictions and app time restrictions.
how to use screen time
Screen Time can be accessed using your device’s settings. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and select Screen Time.
You should see an overview of your device usage here. Tapping on the View All Activity tab will give you a breakdown of your weekly usage. The total time spent is shown at the top, along with a graph showing the amount of time your device has been active. Usage breaks down into categories like Social Networking, Productivity, Entertainment, Reading & Reference, and more.
how to use screen time
Screen Time can be accessed using your device’s settings. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and select Screen Time.
You should see an overview of your device usage here. Tapping on the View All Activity tab will give you a breakdown of your weekly usage. The total time spent is shown at the top, along with a graph showing the amount of time your device has been active. Usage breaks down into categories like Social Networking, Productivity, Entertainment, Reading & Reference, and more.