Manage how you spend time on your phone

Understand your habits

  1. Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  2. Review the chart to see:

    • Time you spent using phone today
    • Which apps you’ve had on screen and for how long
    • How often you unlocked the phone today
    • How many notifications you’ve gotten
  3. For more information, touch a label on the chart. For example, to see your screen time for the week, touch today’s usage time.

Limit daily screen time

For individual apps, you can set a timer that limits the amount you use the app daily.

TipTo manage your child's screen time, use parental controls.

To set an app timer:

  1. Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.

    Or, Settings > Apps > Screen time.

  2. Next to the app you want to limit, touch and tap the chart.
  3. Set the total time that you can use the app per day.

When you reach your time limit in an app:

  • The app closes.
  • Its icon dims and no longer opens the app.

The app timer resets at midnight. To use the app before midnight, go back to the timer in Settings and extend its time or delete the timer.

Pause distracting apps to focus

Use Focus to pause selected apps for fewer distractions.

  1. Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls > Focus.
  2. To select the apps to pause, tap down arrow see all apps, then mark apps.
  3. Do one of the following:

    • To turn it on, tap Turn on now.
    • To have it turn on automatically, tap Set a schedule, then select days of the week and start/end times.

When Focus is on:

  • You'll see in the status bar.
  • You won’t be able to use the selected apps and won’t get notifications from them.
TipTo add Focus to quick settings, open quick settings, tap edit icon, then drag the tile where you want it.

To turn Focus off:

  • Open quick settings and tap .
  • Or, on the notification, tap Turn off now. (To turn it off for a short period, tap Take a break.)

To remove the schedule:

  1. Do one of the following:

    • Open quick settings, then touch & hold .
    • Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls > Focus.
  2. Next to Schedule, tap delete icon.
TipTo mute sounds, stop vibration, and block notifications for all calls and notifications, use Do Not Disturb.

Make it easier to put your phone away at bedtime

You can schedule changes to get ready for sleep.

  1. Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls > Bedtime mode.
  2. Select when to turn on Bedtime mode.
  3. Adjust start and end times if needed.
  4. Tap Customize to set what your phone should do during this scheduled time:

    • You can customize this mode to change how your phone looks (grayscale, dark theme) and responds.
    • Use grayscale or dimmed color and light (touch Screen options at bedtime).

Use parental controls

You can:

  • Control your child’s access to devices and apps
  • Control location settings and view the location of your child’s supervised device
  • Set daily usage limits, monitor app usage, and remotely lock supervised devices
  • Set filters and controls on what your child can browse, purchase, or download using Chrome, Google Search, Play Store, and YouTube

You’ll need to set up parental controls on your and your child's devices.

To set up parental controls on this phone:

  1. Go to Settings > Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
  2. Touch Set up parental controls.
  3. Follow onscreen instructions to set up the phone for child or adult usage.
  4. To set up parental controls on the other device, refer to the help for that device.

To learn more, read Google's help.