We spend 4 hours and 37 minutes on our phones each day, checking them around 58 times, on average. We like to tell ourselves it’s to socialize, for work, or to read the news. But most of us are ...

So, if the kids are running from a would-be abductor this app will prevent them from being able to use their phones? I think if you ask most parents why they even bother giving a child a cell phone to ...

Simply sign up to the Technology myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When did you last check your smartphone screen time? Recently I was shocked to discover that my daily average was six ...

You’ve studied the psychology of sleep, placebos and magic tricks. How did smartphones enter the mix? I’m naturally a slow adopter of technology. My friends had smartphones before I did, and I noticed ...

EDMONTON — Anita Hagh couldn't stop pressing the corner of her phone screen where the Facebook app used to be. It was about five years ago, and she had deleted the social media platform from her ...

Asheville, North Carolina — Katy Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling on her phone was doing to her. She estimates she ...

EDMONTON — Anita Hagh couldn't stop pressing the corner of her phone screen where the Facebook app used to be. It was about five years ago, and she had deleted the social media platform from her ...

EDMONTON — Anita Hagh couldn’t stop pressing the corner of her phone screen where the Facebook app used to be. It was like muscle memory, she says, having clicked on the app countless times so she ...

Over the last 20 years, smartphones have significantly transformed the way we access information, listen to music, take photos, shoot videos, and, of course, stay in touch with our friends and family.