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Friday, 19 July 2019

ActionDash v3.2 update brings Focus Mode and Usage Assistant

Google announced the Digital Wellbeing feature with Android Pie aimed at being responsible with smartphone usage. Digital Wellbeing helps you understand your phone usage better, app usage timers so that you can limit the usage, visuals detailing how many times you unlock your phone per day and how many notifications you receive. Various OEMs like Samsung, OnePlus, Huawei and Xiaomi had introduced their own versions of it called Digital Wellbeing, Digital Balance, Screen time respectively. A couple of months ago, we shared workaround to enable Digital Wellbeing on any device running Android 9.0 (Pie), but in case you have a phone running Android Oreo or older version of Android and want to understand your phone usage, app usage, you can use various third-party apps available on Google Play Store. ActionDash is one such app, and it comes from the makers of Action Launcher which is amongst popular Android launchers. [gallery size="large" ids="287067,286968,287066"] The app needs to be granted notification access permission, to begin with. [gallery columns="2" size="large" ids="286971,286965"] Similar to Digital Wellbeing a summary is shown to the user on the homepage, users can opt for a Daily report or Weekly report. [gallery columns="4" size="large" ids="286970,286969,286967,286966"] Users can also view a Daily/Hourly summary of screentime, app launches, notifications and unlock history to understand their ...