Take a break! Instagram to say this soon

How long do you stay on social media apps at a time? 15 minutes? An hour? 2 hours? If that is bothering you and you are seeking to cutdown on your addiction, Instagram is coming up with a solution. It’s called “Take a break” and if the name isn’t obvious enough, it will remind you to take a break after a certain amount of time.

Yes, all it will do is remind, not enforce the break, like how the Digital Wellbeing feature does on Android. And these will be fullscreen reminders, which you can schedule based on your preferred time gaps. This feature is under testing and if all goes well, you and me should see this rolling out by December!

Instagram to bring reminders for breaks
In a social media post, Instagram Head Adam Mosseri says that this is “part of the broader effort to try and give people more control over their experience of Instagram and there are more ideas like this coming in the future too.” The feature has been developed with third-party experts, says Mosseri.