Cell phone addiction, let moment follow you

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If one of your new Year resolutions is to reduce the time to watch your phone at a family reunion, this mobile app called moment can help you. Moment was previously a dedicated reminder to smartphone owners how long they have spent on their mobile apps. It is now updated to make it more suitable for home use. Family members can track the day-to-day use of mobile phones by other members of their own devices and turn on the "away from the screen" feature so that when someone picks up the phone, it triggers a loud ringtone.

When it comes to moment to introduce a well-designed and useful tool for those who are interested in limiting their use of smartphones, you may recall what it was about earlier this year. Moment is designed by developer Kevin Holesh, where you can set the time to use your smartphone on a daily basis. When your use time exceeds the limit, your phone will warn you by notice and voice.

"Most people don't realize how much time they spend on their phones," Holesh said at the time.

Holesh let people guess how much time they spent on their devices, and their estimates tended to be 50% or more than they actually were. When Holesh obsessed with digital devices and the obsession began to affect his real-world relationships, he experienced the same problems himself. And he realised he had started using the iphone to relax rather than do something interesting and rewarding.

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After the introduction of this application, there are some followers. For example, Checky is used to track how often users look at their phones in a day.

Holesh said that after his app was released, many parents wrote to tell him how much moment helped them manage how much time their children spent on the phone. It made him realise that the problem of smartphone addiction would be better addressed if the family were united.

With the introduction of the moment 2.0 version, the application has now been redesigned to better support home use. Users can view the daily phone usage patterns of other family members, and each family member can configure a "family dinner time" pattern. This model encourages users to drop and stay away from their phones during a one-hour party time. If anyone breaks the rules, they will hear a ringing until they put the phone back.

The kids aren't texting at the table anymore, are they?

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The choice of the ringtone is also very interesting. In addition to the standard ringtones that sound like buzzing or alarm clocks, there are many annoying choices, such as the whistle, the Thunder, and the "most disturbing voice of history ever" from "Ah-ah and".

It should also be clear that "family dinner time" is not recommended as a strict "parental control" tool. Instead, anyone who agrees to change their behavior should see it as a common effort rather than a father or mother punishing a child with a "no cell phone" rule.

Holesh says moment has been downloaded more than 1 million times, suggesting that people are interested in applications that can help them solve the problem of addiction to digital products. Currently, the application is about 200,000 active users per month. The figure is still rising. Just a few days ago, the use of the application price has been reduced from 4.99 U.S. dollars to free. Now, users can spend 2 of dollars a month to buy family features by applying the built-in purchase feature.

Moment is now installed about 10,000 times a day for free.

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There are still a significant number of people who have downloaded this application. This once again shows that people really feel that they have become overly reliant on their portable devices for a while. Holesh said that in the past week, about every 5 people who had installed moment have used it.

On itunes, Moment is free, and of course people can choose to pay 3.99 dollars for three months of family service, or 19.99 dollars for a year's family service. In addition to the "Family dinner Time" model and the tendency to see usage, Family Services also allow for the imposition of daily usage restrictions. Once the application is installed, the user cannot completely "force out" (even if it is brushed off from the multitasking menu). When you move to a new location, the application will continue to follow.

However, parents cannot use the method of setting this as a family rule as an independent solution to screen time problems. Conversely, in the initial stage, in addition to relying on moment settings, parents should look for tougher and more controlled means to limit the use of the phone, plus the constraint applied to delete and change the background program refresh behavior.

Source:tc