{"id":265028,"date":"2026-06-05T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/i-flagged-my-apps-as-distracting-and-android-wont-let-me-ignore-them-anymore\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:00:13","slug":"i-flagged-my-apps-as-distracting-and-android-wont-let-me-ignore-them-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/i-flagged-my-apps-as-distracting-and-android-wont-let-me-ignore-them-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"I flagged my apps as distracting, and Android won&#8217;t let me ignore them anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-makes-you-pause\/\">I flagged my apps as distracting, and Android won&#8217;t let me ignore them anymore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-makes-you-pause\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-makes-you-pause\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 11:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your hand reaches for the phone, and the algorithm starts playing before your brain catches up. That\u2019s the autopilot launch, and it\u2019s the whole game on modern phones.<\/p>\n<p>At the May 2026 Android Show, Google announced a set of Gemini features built to automate the mobile experience. But one of the most useful Android 17 features has nothing to do with AI at all.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called Pause Point, and as a habitual doomscroller, I\u2019m very happy it exists.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tHow my Google Pixel helped me quit doomscrolling<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I fought Android with its own settings<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"digital-detox-without-the-hardware-downgrade\">\n                        Digital detox without the hardware downgrade<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>                  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-makes-you-pause\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flagged my apps as distracting, and Android won&#8217;t let me ignore them anymore https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-17-makes-you-pause\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/android-mascot-showing-a-pause-point-screen-before-opening-distracting-apps.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-265028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265028"}],"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=265028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265030,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265028\/revisions\/265030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}