{"id":286935,"date":"2026-07-07T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/i-cut-my-screen-time-by-2-hours-a-week-with-one-android-setting-nobody-uses\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:05:12","slug":"i-cut-my-screen-time-by-2-hours-a-week-with-one-android-setting-nobody-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/i-cut-my-screen-time-by-2-hours-a-week-with-one-android-setting-nobody-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"I cut my screen time by 2 hours a week with one Android setting nobody uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-automation-reduce-screen-time\/\">I cut my screen time by 2 hours a week with one Android setting nobody uses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-automation-reduce-screen-time\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-automation-reduce-screen-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-07 16:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used to think I didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time on my phone\u2014then I saw the harsh reality. I wanted to fix this, so I did some research and found a tool that helped me decrease my phone use when it&#8217;s at its worst: late at night. The solution I found is surprisingly easy and requires no third-party apps.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThe Easiest Way to Reduce Your Screen Time (and Turn Your Phone Into a Second Brain)<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Save 7 years of your life.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"having-the-internet-in-your-pocket-isn-39-t-what-it-39-s-cracked-up-to-be\">\n            Having the Internet in your pocket isn&#8217;t what it&#8217;s cracked up to be<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        <img width=\"711\" height=\"777\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A pie chart breaking down phone usage over a single day.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-pie-chart-breaking-down-phone-usage-over-a-single-day.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=711&#038;dpr=1\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-pie-chart-breaking-down-phone-usage-over-a-single-day.png?q=70&#038;fit=crop&#038;w=711&#038;dpr=1\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><br \/>\n       &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/android-automation-reduce-screen-time\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cut my screen time by 2 hours a week with one Android setting nobody&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/07\/several-electronics-sit-unused-next-to-a-model-kit-being-built-ona-table.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286935"}],"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=286935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286937,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286935\/revisions\/286937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}