{"id":260243,"date":"2026-05-31T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/a-simple-10-second-delay-in-android-17-may-finally-break-my-autopilot-smartphone-addiction\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T08:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:40:08","slug":"a-simple-10-second-delay-in-android-17-may-finally-break-my-autopilot-smartphone-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/a-simple-10-second-delay-in-android-17-may-finally-break-my-autopilot-smartphone-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"A simple 10-second delay in Android 17 may finally break my autopilot smartphone addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-android-17-pause-point-feature-is-doing-what-no-focus-mode-ever-could\/\">A simple 10-second delay in Android 17 may finally break my autopilot smartphone addiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-android-17-pause-point-feature-is-doing-what-no-focus-mode-ever-could\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-android-17-pause-point-feature-is-doing-what-no-focus-mode-ever-could\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, focus modes can block apps on a schedule, but switching them off takes a few seconds at best.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, there is Do Not Disturb, which might quiet notifications, but nothing stops you from opening the app yourself.<\/p>\n<p>All that is to say that while all of these tools are great, they don&#8217;t solve the willpower problem, which I&#8217;m sure a lot of us face.<\/p>\n<p>However, at Google I\/O 2026, the company announced a new feature coming to Android 17 called Pause Point. This is the first Android feature that actually addresses that very specific pain point.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t7 time-saving features on Android that helped me reclaim hours every week<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">These features have genuinely sped up my daily tasks<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"everything-you-need-to-know-about-pause-point\">\n                        Everything you need to know about Pause Point<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"intercepting-your-habit-before-it-becomes-an-addiction\">\n            Intercepting your habit before it becomes an addiction<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-android-17-pause-point-feature-is-doing-what-no-focus-mode-ever-could\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple 10-second delay in Android 17 may finally break my autopilot smartphone addiction https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-android-17-pause-point-feature-is-doing-what-no-focus-mode-ever-could\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hand-holding-a-smartphone-showing-android-17-s-pause-point-breathing-screen-in-front-of-a-large-android-17-background.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-260243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260245,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260243\/revisions\/260245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}