What is Screen Time?
Screen Time is a feature that monitors how much time you spend using your device and specific applications. It provides insights into your digital habits by tracking:
Total time spent on your device
Time spent on individual apps
How often you pick up your device
Which apps send you the most notifications
Set Up Habit to track Screen Time
Habitify's new integration leverages this data to help you build better digital habits:
For Good Habits:
Track time spent on productive apps like reading, learning, or fitness applications
Set goals in "hours" or "minutes" to ensure you're dedicating enough time to beneficial activities
Example: Read 30 minutes daily on Apple Books or Practice a language with Doulingo for 15 minutes
For Bad Habits:
Set limits on potentially distracting applications
Track and reduce time spent on social media, games, or shopping apps
Example: Quit TikTok or Reduce YouTube usage under 1 hour per day
Step-by-step Guide
Navigate to the Journal view and tap the + button on the date bar
Choose whether Create Good Habit or Break Bad Habit
Switch to the Screen Time option
Tap on Add Apps if you want to track usage time of specific apps
Tap on Add Website if you want to track the time you spend on a website using your phone's browser.
Then tap Continue.
Choose app or add domain. Then, tap Continue again.
Grant Habitify the permissions including:
Notifications: to let the app keep you notified of data syncing, especially when you reach the limitation of an app.
App Usage Access: to get the exact data of screen time
Display Over Other Apps: to enable the tracking on app usage screen
Habitify Usage Limites and Website Analytics: to enable the tracking on website usage.
Configure your habit settings as you normally for a good habit or a bad habit
Tap Save to activate tracking
Important Note
Screen time values will be records after you close the app, or until you reach your goal threshold.
For good habits (like reading apps), your habit is marked complete once you reach your time goal, though the counter continues tracking additional usage
For bad habits (like social media):
Goal as "Limit this habit": Habitify will actually limit your app usage once you reach your maximum threshold.
Goal as "Quit this habit": Your selected app will be limited by default.
This restriction remains in place unless you deliberately mark the habit as "Skip" or "Fail."
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