You’re encouraged to get your steps in and you can still enjoy the fun apps—in moderation. Enter Steppin, a completely free iPhone app that, like plenty of others, blocks access to distracting apps. None of that is particularly good for me, and watching it over and over stops me from getting things done in my real life, though I do really love NSFW Reels those marshmallow videos. I love to be productive, I love to exercise, but I also love (or at least find myself) getting sucked into marathon Reels-bingeing sessions on Instagram.

Users are encountering graphic violence and explicit material, including footage of severe injuries, dead bodies, and violent attacks. Users worldwide have reported that their Instagram feeds are unexpectedly filled with violent and NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content. “In the past few hours, my IG Reels feed has suddenly started showing violent or disturbing videos out of nowhere. Are you suddenly seeing disturbing, sensitive, or violent content on your Instagram feed? Many are encountering graphic violence and explicit material unexpectedly

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I already get plenty of steps in on a daily basis, but this has certainly encouraged me to do more. Feedback and actual user data determine a lot about what happens to Steppin, so for now, I’m using it every day to do my part. But Steppin could include a lot more than just new versions, functionality tweaks, or streaks over time. I’d have to open Steppin again, trade another five minutes in, and ultimately “spend” 10 minutes just to redeem five. He explained that he came up with the idea while on vacation with his family, noticing that no one was looking at their phones while they walked around, but as soon as they got into a car to travel to a farther destination, everyone was glued to their screens.

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Spending a couple of hours every day on your phone may seem like definitely the norm these days — and it probably is for most people! I’m looking forward to the day when, say, my minutes of reading or other forms of exercise count toward my banked minutes, depending on which direction English and his team take with future updates, but for now, I’m enjoying using it as-is. This could be a detriment for some, since you might not appreciate losing a streak because you’re configuring the settings in a way that works best for you, or in the case that you might even need unfettered access to an app for some reason. Most weeks, I end up with between 10 or 15 hours of banked, unused time before the reset hits. What I really like, though, is having to pre-determine how many minutes I give myself when accessing blocked apps.

(Some people may not be able to do this last one at all times, of course). There are multiple ways you can limit these notifications. Work, family, planning — it all makes it very, very hard to put your phone down for even short periods of time. I need to get it under control, because I can’t teach my kids how to set healthy boundaries if I’m not doing it myself. It’s definitely something you still need to have some self-restraint to use, since you pick the apps that go on your block list and have a number of options for accessing them or overriding Steppin’s control, but it provides all the tools you need to make better decisions. Overall, I like this app a lot more than I thought I would, just because it’s so customizable.

My feed is full of violent and sensitive stuff! Although Meta has apologised and claimed to have fixed the problem, some users claim that they are still seeing violent and graphic content on their feeds. Either way, it’s disturbing,” a user posted on X. Such posts may be restricted with warning labels. While some of these posts were marked as “Sensitive Content,” they were still accessible, raising concerns about Instagram’s content moderation policies.

An Android app is also already in development and should be here in “weeks, not months,” English says. I didn’t love that, either, but it went back to the scroller soon enough. I’ve noticed plenty of changes in the five months I’ve been using it, too. The streaks feature, for instance, was only added after the first few weeks the app was available, after he got feedback from users who said they’d like to see something like that.

The only issue with these is that they’re pretty easy to just ignore. There are tons of apps out there you can download to help curb your social media addiction. Apple provides different focus modes for your phone when you swipe down from the top of your home screen. You can then create a “sleep” mode and choose the hours you don’t want any alerts. This will prevent it from throwing out a notification every time someone else sends a link, asks a question, or replies to something. You can tap the chat name and press the “bell” button to mute the entire chat.