Hi! I’d like to be able to completely disable social stuff, leaderboards and comparisons with others in your app.
In my case, less screen time is not always good: I read on my phone, run with an active screen with stopwatch, etc. And in reports and leaderboards I see messages, sometimes in red colour, that I did worse than other people. So, with current implementation, the app pushes me to do less productive activities to get less screen time.
Or, as another solution, would be okay if apps could be labeled as non-counting towards overall screen time, so I can e.g. mark my reading app as such, and read a couple of hours per day without making my stats look worse doing so.
Thanks for the feature requests! I’ve passed this thoughtful feedback along to our engineers to consider as we continue to upgrade the app, as we’re currently improving our social features and trying to give more options to our Gems. Otherwise, we do have some changes coming to screen time that you’ll likely be happy with, so stay tuned!
I’ve actually had the same problems, you see I read a lot of audio books, I also use texting as my primary communication tool, I use medical apps to keep track of symptoms, I also read articles and use a special reading app to help me do homework as I am still in school and have trouble processing information when presented visually, because I use my phone for so many productive and necessary things, it’s hard for me to use it less. I think the ideas presented here would also greatly help me.