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Google Says Digital Wellbeing Isn’t Slowing Down Your Pixel Phone, but Something Else Is

Kellen May 29, 2019

Earlier this month, a bunch of Pixel 3 owners decided that turning off Digital Wellbeing was instantly improving the performance of their laggy phones. We talked about it at the time because it was big-if-true type of news, but also because the Pixel 3 was...

Pixel 3 Owners are Turning Off Digital Wellbeing and Finding a Better Life (Updated)

Kellen May 13, 2019

UPDATE 5/29: Google says that Digital Wellbeing is not slowing down phones, but that they've identified areas that are causing performance issues. They'll rollout changes to address them soon. Prior to Google I/O kicking off a week or ago, Pixel 3 owners over...

Question: Do You Use Digital Wellbeing?

Kellen April 9, 2019

Google introduced its Digital Wellbeing software in August of last year as a way to help us monitor phone and app usage, try and give us reason to disconnect more, put our phones down earlier in the evening, and limit technological obsessions. Since then, I...

Google’s Digital Wellbeing Exits Beta, Available to Pixel and Android One Phones

Kellen November 20, 2018

Google's Digital Wellbeing, the suite of features that helps you disconnect from your phone or at least realize how addicted to it you are, is out of beta and now available to all Pixel and Android One phones as long as they are running Android 9 "Pie." If you...

Google’s Digital Wellbeing Arrives on Google Home With Downtime and Filters

Kellen October 22, 2018

Google is really big on this whole Digital Wellbeing thing, where they want to give you the tools to help you disconnect a bit more from the technology around you. First starting with smartphones, they are now expanding Digital Wellbeing to Google Home...

Digital Wellbeing Update Brings App Shortcut, Quick Settings Toggle for Grayscale

Kellen September 6, 2018

Google's Digital Wellbeing service picked up an update today that introduces two much-needed features. For one, you can now add Digital Wellbeing to your app drawer, giving you quicker access than ever before. At launch with the first beta, it wasn't exactly...

Been Using Google’s Digital Wellbeing? What Do You Think So Far?

Kellen September 5, 2018

Once Android 9.0 Pie went stable, Google published the first beta of its Digital Wellbeing suite to supported devices, which included the Pixel and Pixel 2 lines. We've now had it for about a month and figured it was time to see if everyone has been using it,...

Video: Google’s Digital Wellbeing First Look!

Kellen August 7, 2018

If you own a Pixel or Pixel 2 and it's already running Android Pie, you can test out Google's Digital Wellbeing software. It's currently in beta and you have to sign-up for it before being able to install, but yeah, it is ready for the first time. RELATED:...