Digital Wellbeing on Android Pie Moves Out of Beta, With Improved Wind Down Mode

Google’s Digital Wellbeing, the app dedicated toweakening the clutches of smartphone addictionhas graduated out of beta into the stable version. Digital Wellbeing, which is exclusive to Android Pie devices – specifically Pixels and Android One affiliates, although you canget it on a bunch others too– wassilently updated from beta version 0.2 to version 1.0.

The update bringsslightly updated functionality over the beta versionto make its applications more relevant. The most obvious change is within one of the most useful features – Wind Down. Now, the feature willdetect if you have an alarm set ahead of the scheduled endof your nightly routine and turn it off automatically if the alarm goes off before the end time.

This tiny addition comes in handy every time you have to wake up earlier than usual, and now you need not edit the settings of the Wind Down feature manually. Rest of the features such as Do Not Disturb, Grayscale, Night Light seem to be the same as in beta. On Pixel 3 and 3 XL, you can turn on Do Not Disturb mode byplacing the phone on a table with its face downward.

The Digital Wellbeing app is Google’sattempt to reduce users’ dependency on their smartphoneswhile features like Night Light and Grayscale aid in falling asleep faster. The app also shows users theirduration of usage per app, the number of distracting notificationfrom each of them, as well as thenumber of times an app is openedduring the entire day.

Part of Digital Wellbeing’s responsibilities also includes noting the number of times the device has been unlocked. There is a slight change in this ticker with the incremental update and itwill not count screen unlocks when there’s no screen lockbeing used.

Our Pixel 3 XL automatically updated to the newer version of Digital Wellbeing but the Play Store description still shows an older version. However, if you’re using either an Android One or a Pixel device running at least Android Pie, you can download the latest version of the app by clicking onthis link.

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