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TL;DR Google is working on an Expressive redesign for Digital Wellbeing’s app activity, App timers, and Bedtime mode.
App timers could soon let you select multiple apps and assign the same daily limit to all of them at once.
Bedtime mode could ditch collapsible sections while moving Bedtime routine to the top and Weekly average to the bottom.
For a tool that’s supposed to help you track your screen time and reduce it, Digital Wellbeing’s UI sure does promote the opposite. This hasn’t really been a concern up until now, mainly because we’ve been content with what the app offers. However, now that we’ve gotten an early look at how much better Digital Wellbeing could be, it’s going to be difficult to go back.
We’ve spotted Google working on several Digital Wellbeing UI changes — changes that could finally bring an Expressive makeover to the screen-time monitoring app.
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For reference, we already found clues hinting at a new Weekly wrap feature for Digital Wellbeing within the app’s latest version 1.47.964183037.beta build. Now, the same build also points at Google redesigning UI for the app’s timers, Bedtime mode, and app activity.
Starting with what shows up first when you access Digital Wellbeing, from top to bottom, the app activity details section could be getting a redesigned dashboard.
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