It’s not a secret that we spend hours in front of the mobile phone. We can do so many things with it that it is inevitable that we spend more time on it than we should. Messages, audiosemails, listen musicver videos, series and movies, playing games… And what can we say about social networks, with which we also spend a lot of time. Precisely for this reason, it does not hurt to put ourselves a time limit on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, to name three of the most visited social networks.
The short videos of these three social platforms They are addictive. They last a few seconds and happen one after another. Time flies and, on more than one occasion, you will have seen that you have been there longer than you should in front of your mobile screen. To remedy this, social networks themselves have incorporated tools that They will notify you when you exceed the time that you can previously configure yourself. It’s up to you to take a break when that happens. You’ll come back later for more videos.
To give you an idea, TikTok activates by default the time limit on users from 13 to 17 years old: 1 hour. For adult users, you can set limits in time slots of several minutes, with a recommended limit of 40 minutes. In the case of Instagram, you can also limit the usage time on slots of several quarters of an hour. The one recommended by Instagram is 30 minutes, although you can configure it for only 15 minutes if that is the time you have during a break or break. And on YouTube, you can also tell it to notify you when you’ve been between 15 minutes and 3 hours watching videos.
Activate the time limit on TikTok
Let’s start with the most popular social network. A platform where watch short videos uninterrupted. And some other direct too. Be that as it may, you can spend hours watching videos without realizing that the clock is ticking. So to better control what you dedicate your rest or leisure to, you can activate a time limit on TikTok.
For one thing, you don’t need to time the screen time you spend on TikTok. The application itself will tell you. You will see day by day how many minutes or hours have you been on TikTok and compare with the previous weeks.
To view your usage time summary on TikTok:
Open TikTok
Get into your Profile
Open the drop-down menu at the top right Enter Settings and privacy
And a Content and screen and select Screen time
Go down to Summary. There you have it
In the Screen Time section you can configure three options related to the time limit you spend on TikTok. The first, be notified when you exceed a limit of minutes or hours that you can previously configure yourself. Second, receive a notice to take a break. And finally, there is also available a go to sleep warning when the time you previously indicated arrives.
In the TikTok time limit you can indicate the same time for every day or personalize it. For example, on the weekend you can spend more time in front of the screen, and less during the week. Breaks can be 10, 20 or 30 minutes. Or you can customize it with the hours or minutes you decide. Finally, the time to go to sleep is indicated in hour and minute. For example, 10:30 p.m. or 11:15 p.m. There it will depend on your sleeping habits.
Set a time limit for Instagram
Instagram is also a very addictive app. Between photos, videos, stories and reels, you can spend hours and hours. So, in addition to limiting time on TikTok, why not ask the application itself Instagram to notify you at a certain time. To do this, we are going to schedule a reminder daily time limit. On the other hand, it also allows you to see the time spent on Instagram from its section. statistics or activity.
To see Your activitythat is, the time you spend on Instagram:
Go into Instagram. Only works on mobile version Tap the icon profile bottom right Click on the menu at the top right to see the available options Enter Your activity
Scroll down until you see the option Time elapsed
You will see the time spent on Instagram day by day during the current week
Within Time elapsed You can activate two options to limit the time you spend on Instagram. First, it will notify you when you exceed certain hours or minutes. And second, reminders to take breaks between video sessions. Rest breaks can be every 10, 20 or 30 minutes. And the Instagram usage limit is 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours.
Limit YouTube usage time
Since there are no two without three, in addition to limiting time on TikTok and Instagram, it also doesn’t hurt to control how much you spend on watch YouTube content. Its catalog is so wide and varied that you can also lose track of time. But that’s what notifications, notices and reminders are for. As in the two previous examples, to view and activate this usage time limit you will have to use the YouTube app on Android, iPhone or iPad. It is not yet implemented on computers and other platforms.
To activate the YouTube break reminder:
Open the app YouTube
Tap on your profile picture Sign in Setting
And a General
Press the switch next to Remind me to take a break
Now indicate the frequency of the reminder in hours and minutes Confirm your decision by pressing the button Accept
Every time the reminder frequency passes, a message will appear on YouTube. You can ignore the message by clicking on Close
Or, better yet, close YouTube and do another activity.
From there you can also activate the option Receive bedtime reminder. You just have to tell YouTube what time you usually go to bed and when the time comes, if you continue watching videos, a notice will appear on the screen. This way you will avoid staying up late and accumulating dark circles the next morning.
As a curiosity, and according to YouTube’s official help, “if you change devices, pause a video for more than 30 minutes, or close the application or your session, the timer will reset. The timer will not start when you see offline videos or send content from your phone.” On the other hand, to know how many hours you spend on YouTube, you just have to go to Profile > Your viewing time.
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2023-09-28 01:04:08
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