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Digital Wellbeing is now a feature of Chrome on Android 10

Digital Wellbeing is now available on Chrome 77. (Source: Google)
Digital Wellbeing is now available on Chrome 77. (Source: Google)
Google introduced Digital Wellbeing in order to allow users to track and manage their phone use, which extends to a per-app basis. This feature is now integrated into a new Chrome browser update. It can be used to display screen time and how much of it is spent on each website visited.
by Deirdre O Donnell, 2019/10/20
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Chrome 77.0.3865.116 for Android has an interesting new addition: Google's Digital Wellbeing. This phone-use tracker now also works for this popular browser. It is available in the app's settings under the Privacy menu. Thereafter, the user will be able to see a list of the sites visited in the main Wellbeing UI.

Furthermore, this interface should show screen-on time for individual websites. Each one also has an hourglass icon alongside it. Its selection results in the ability to set a time-limit for the corresponding site's use in Chrome. These timers are re-set every day, which may help the user cut down on prolonged browsing sessions on sites such as eBay.

Chrome's Digital Wellbeing integration has come a long way since its original detection in its Gerrit source-code in February 2019. At that point, it was known by the code-name "Chromeshine", and had been involved in various Q betas since then. Now, however, it has made the stable channel and may be available on phones that run Android 10.

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Deirdre O Donnell, 2019-10-20 (Update: 2019-10-20)
Deirdre O'Donnell
I became a professional writer and editor shortly after graduation. My degrees are in biomedical sciences; however, they led to some experience in the biotech area, which convinced me of its potential to revolutionize our health, environment and lives in general. This developed into an all-consuming interest in more aspects of tech over time: I can never write enough on the latest electronics, gadgets and innovations. My other interests include imaging, astronomy, and streaming all the things. Oh, and coffee.