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If you could collect all the time you spend viewing Instagram Stories and reviewing the feed of the characters you follow, you could possibly take the opportunity to read Don Quixote. Take a programming language course. Or enjoy the entire Star Wars saga a dozen times. Or even more.
But you don't have to think about it. Did you know that from now on Instagram will tell you how much time you spend on the application? The function was announced a few months ago, but the truth is that it hasn't arrived until now.It is also an option shared with Facebook users, who already have the possibility of checking how much time they spend hooked on the walls of their colleagues.
Anyway, it's a feature, Your Activity, that has already reached iOS users, but it will take a few days to land on Android devices. Ready to find out how much time you're wasting on the social network of filters? Read on to find out how. It will not take you more than a minute.
How to check Your Activity on Instagram
To check how much time you spend on Instagram, the first thing you'll need to do is update the app. For now, as we indicated, the function will be available for iOS users, but soon it will also land for Android users.
All you have to do is head to your app store and download the latest Instagram update. From there, you can follow the same steps for both iOS and Android:
1. Once inside Instagram, click on the menu option (the hamburger icon), located at the top right of the screen.
2. Here different options will be activated and the first is exactly what interests us: Your activity Click here to see how much time you spend on this social network. You will get specific information about the time you spend every day and Instagram will also offer you an average time of the last seven days. In this way, you will know how much you spend more or less connected to this platform each day. And that's all.
How can I control the time I spend on Instagram?
Another interesting tool that Instagram has introduced with this update and feature is the ability to control the time we spend on the social network. Because it's useless to know that we spend part of our day watching and sharing stories, if we can't do anything later to remedy our addiction or excesses.
Just within this same section in which we can control the time we spend on Instagram, we have the opportunity to manage time. Within the section Manage your time there are two interesting functions. On the one hand, there is the one that allows us to schedule daily reminders. Users can set a maximum time to dedicate to Instagram, so that when they exceed that threshold (set by themselves), they will receive a message indicating that it is time to turn off the phone.Or the Instagram app.
Another thing we can do to avoid distractions is to reconfigure the notification system. It won't help you much if you continue to receive notices about news and publications, if what you really want is to get rid of it. Choose from here what kind of notifications you want to receive and avoid being bombarded throughout the day with notifications about broadcasts, stories and other publications that the people you follow make On Instagram. This way you will surely avoid wasting a few more minutes of your precious time.
