Google Expands Android Digital Wellbeing Tools To More Phones

Google introduced Digital Wellbeing tools for Android last year in a bid to help users better manage the time that they spend on their devices. The company initially kept these tools limited to its Pixel smartphones and devices on the Android One program. That’s going to change now as Google is making the tools available to other devices.

Google is now expanding the Digital Wellbeing features to devices that are beyond the official Android experience. It starts with the Moto G7 series. Google has confirmed that additional partners have been lined up as well which means that we’ll be seeing these features on a lot more devices in the coming months.

The company didn’t provide any information about these new partners, though, so it remains to be seen which manufacturers’ devices will be getting the features down the line. Nothing has been changed with the software itself.

The Digital Wellbeing feature on these devices will provide users with information on the amount of time that they have spent on the phone and will also divide it by individual apps. Users will be able to set time limits on apps if they feel like they’re wasting too much time on Instagram, for example. The Wind Down features will turn the screen to grayscale and also limit notifications.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: Google