The minimum time limit function has been raised.
It is common knowledge that social media addiction is a growing problem worldwide, with a lot of criticism from the major platforms. To prevent attacks, Instagram has been voluntarily allowing users to limit their time in the app since 2018.
The feature available in the top-right menu My Activities > Time Spent > Set Daily Time Limit has so far triggered a maximum run of 10 minutes per day, but the company recently announced that the stricter option will now be removed.
Those who want to curb their instincts can no longer go under 30 minutes, followed by 45 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, and 3 hours. Platform leader Adam Mosseri though justify The move to offer 10 minutes of notifications about the daily time limit conflicts with the 10 minutes of alerts sent by Take A Break, a similar feature that was just launched.
Take A Break is for minors who are reminded that it’s time to take a break when they’ve been using the Instagram app for a long time. This feature is currently only available in a few countries (United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom, and Ireland). The arrival of Take A Break was announced last year after an internal investigation leaked that sharing photos was harmful to teens’ mental health.
However, the very limited start of the new feature does not explain why the daily 10-minute time-out option is disabled in all other countries where “take a break” is not yet available, i.e. where there is no risk of repeating notifications. Therefore, according to bad languages, the platform under the wings of the Meta simply took the opportunity to relax in the restraint of many parts of the world. Whatever the real reason, based on written testing, the change is already in effect for Hungarian users:
For those who still want to narrow their daily limit, Screen Time on iOS and iPadOS Application usage restrictions You can set a limit of up to 1 minute, and many Android devices already offer a similar native solution.
