We touch our smartphones at least 2,617 times a day!
Users touch their smartphones around 2,617 times a day, according to new research which found that phone screen time was 2.42 hours for the average user, and 3.75 hours for the heavy user.
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For the study, firm research discount in the US recruited a demographically diverse sample of 94 Android users from a pool of more than 100,000 participants. Then they built an additional smartphone tool to track every user's interaction across five days, 24 hours a day.
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Researchers found that people tapped, swiped and clicked a whopping 2,617 times each day, on average. For the heaviest users - the top 10 percent – common interactions doubled to 5,427 touches a day, researchers said.
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Per year, that is nearly 1 million touches on average - and 2 million for the less restrained people, they said. The study found that phone screen time was 2.42 hours for the average user, and 3.75 hours for the heavy user.
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That was time spent on everything from typing texts, swiping on Tinder, turning Kindle pages, and scrolling in Facebook.
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The average user engaged in 76 separate phone sessions a day. Heavy users (the top 10 percent) averaged 132 sessions a day. The findings showed that long usage sessions are rare - mostly Netflix and reading. In general, people prefer lots of little sessions with breaks in between.
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Researchers found that activity drops (but far from disappears) in the predawn hours. At 7 AM, touches explode, ramping up almost continuously until dinner time. Over the course of our five-day study, 87 percent of participants checked their phones at least once between midnight and 5 AM, researchers said.
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Messaging and social media apps totalled 26 per cent and 22 per cent of interactions respectively, while internet search browsers comprised 10 percent, they said.
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Facebook had the most number of touches at 15 per cent, followed by native messaging at 11 per cent, home screen at nine percent and Chrome at five per cent.  Â
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