Instagram's new Take A Break feature includes 10-minute intervals
Five daily time limit options are available on the app now
Instagram’s Take a break feature is now available on iOS Instagram in 2018 introduced Your Activity feature that tracks how much time users spend on the app. In a new development, the photo- and video-sharing platform is tweaking the daily time limit options it had introduced with the feature. Users were earlier able to select a time limit as low as 10 the latest update brings that minimum to 30 minutes. Changes to daily time limit settings come a few days after Instagram released its Take a break feature, which is designed to help users to take intervals between spending time on the app the daily time limit options now available on Instagram are 30 minutes, 45 minutes, one hour, two hours, and three hours. Earlier, users were allowed to choose 10 minutes and 15 minutes as time limit options for restricting their daily access to the app. The change in Instagram settings was first spotted by TechCrunch. According to the report, the social media platform is alerting users with popups that appear on top of their feeds following the new app update, asking them to update the daily time limit option. The report further states that the new changes in settings were made post the announcement of Meta's Q4 2021 Instagram on Tuesday confirmed the changes in the settings via Twitter. We changed the daily limit options to avoid sending people multiple notifications at the same time said the company adds that the new feature Take A Break shows full-screen reminders to leave the app and includes 10-minute intervals aimed at giving users more control over how they interact with social media, recently started rolling out the Take A Break feature to users globally It allows them to set reminders to take a break from scrolling after a certain amount of time. The optional feature lets users choose from 10-minute, 20-minute, or 30-minute intervals to be reminded to take a break from the app It is now available for iOS for the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on Twitter, Facebook, and Google News For the latest videos on gadgets and tech subscribe to our YouTube channel.
My choice has gone away and if I try and change it my old minimum of 10 minutes triples to 30 minutes who preferred to remain anonymous, likened this silent switch to a tobacco company saying you can limit your packs a day, as it takes away smaller packs
there don't forced the change but go into the edit screen as it tells you to, then you have to force quit the app to get out without changing it they added we’ve recently seen Facebook/Meta using a similarly manipulative persistent notification tactic when trying to push a policy update on WhatsApp users in the face of a major T&Cs backlash — which has led to an (ongoing) consumer protection probe in the EU. But the company has a long, ignoble history of this sort of stuff. So none of this is surprising. But that doesn’t make it okay it’s getting harder for companies like Meta to pull the wool, though. Oversight bodies are wising up to dark patterns
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