Microsoft is ahead of Google and Android Pie and already offers the Digital Maintenance function in its launcher for Android

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Digital Wellbeing: you&39;ve probably heard that term in recent months. An improvement that the two large platforms have introduced in their mobile operating systems. First it was Apple with iOS 12 that added this function that allows us to know how much time we are spending or rather, wasting, with our mobile or tablet. Even Facebook has joined this type of proposal with Tu Tiempo en Facebook."

Google also jumped on the bandwagon with a feature that comes with Android 9.0 or Android Pie. An exclusive improvement of this version of Android that for now severely limits the number of users that can access it A limitation that we can correct if we use the latest beta that Microsoft has launched of its launcher for Android.

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In version 5.1 of Microsoft Launcher (a success in downloads) that can be downloaded from Google Play, a feature called “Digital Maintenance” appears. If we access it we can find out how much time we have spent using our _smartphone_ and how many minutes (or hours) we have invested in each application

For many it may seem like a minor improvement, unimportant if we compare it with the support that Cortana now offers to be able to interact in Spanish. A vision that would be wrong, because with this addition we are going to improve the use we make of our mobile

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In order to know how much time you spend, just move the Microsoft Launcher screen to the right and thus reach the news _feed_ that remains on the right side. We go down to the section Digital Maintenance and once inside we can know the use we make, either in the last 24 hours or if we prefer, in the last week. "

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If you install the Microsoft Launcher Beta and access Digital Maintenance you may be surprised at the time you waste (we lose) browsing social networks and playing that title that we have downloaded from Google Play. Habits that can lead to an addiction that is harmful to our mental he alth."

Remember that this is a function that appears for now, only in the beta version of Microsoft Launcher (which you can join here), a version that introduces improvements that later reach the general version of the app and that at the same time can offer some instability as it is still under development.You can download it for free from Google Play and manage it from the section dedicated to beta versions of your user account.

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