Pedestrians view smartphones on Wall Street near the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. U.S. equities jumped, the dollar dropped and Treasuries climbed as investors seemed to cheer on the outlook for a divided Congress in the wake of the American midterm elections. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
LOS ANGELES: The first step is admitting you have a problem: About 39% of US consumers confess that they believe they’re using their smartphones excessively, according to a new study.
On average, American consumers now check their smartphones an average of 52 times each day, according to the US edition of the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey from Deloitte. That’s up from 47 times per day on last year’s study, according to the consulting and professional services firm. About 35% of adults say they use their smartphones “very often” or “fairly often” for business uses outside normal working hours.
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