This App Blocks Social Media Until You (Literally) Touch Grass, and I'm So Excited for It

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering social media, AI and online services. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in media and journalism. You can often find her with a novel and an iced coffee during her time off.

My screen time on my phone is sky high. It's so high that I wince every week when I get my screen time report and refuse to state the number here. There are plenty of reasons for that: I use my phone for work to test different apps, I use it to read ebooks and, the greatest contributor, I'm something of an expert at doomscrolling.

But there's really no way to escape the fact that an ungodly amount of screen time is bad for you, full stop. A 2024 report from the American Optometric Association and ...