Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks about screen time during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Monday, June 4, 2018, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Apple Inc introduced features to help iPhone users put down their phones – at least temporarily – after criticism people were addicted to the company’s flagship device and following similar moves to combat smartphone addiction by competitors.
The slew of tools includes updates to “Do Not Disturb” and new ways to manage notifications. Instead of waking up to a string of notifications missed over night, users will get a new “Good morning” screen summarizing the alerts. There’s also a larger array of controls for muting notifications and grouping alerts to reduce the number sent to a user.
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