My morning routine goes something like this. Every weekday, I wake up to the sound of one of Apple’s default alarms and reach ...

A new addiction is on the rise. Many call doomscrolling a way to kill time, but it’s really an addiction. Like many addictions that have consequences, doomscrolling creates mental and physical health ...

Have you been "doom scrolling" lately? Or is it the first time you heard about it? It turns out it's something we've all probably been doing lately. Doom scrolling, aka zombie scrolling, is a ...

There's a new app in town for those who can't stop scrolling their phones, and this might be the most innovative idea yet. Steppin is an iPhone and Android app that wants to help you take control of ...

New research shows it can tame other addictive behaviour that uses the same pathway,” says Dr Astik Joshi, psychiatrist at ...

Constantly find yourself doomscrolling on social media? You may just be doing so out of habit, not addiction. That’s according to research conducted on 1,204 US adults, which found excessive social ...

Oxford University Press has chosen "brain rot" as its word of the year. The word is defined as "supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of ...

Be honest with us—do your iPhone’s screen time notifications make you question how you’re spending your free time? You’re not alone in this. We all could develop better phone usage habits, but not ...