"Curse" notice … so get rid of them!

In a report, the Spanish "Oi" newspaper that carried out studies showed that one in three people look at their phone more than 100 times a day, on average once every 10 minutes, not counting the hours of sleep . This number increases as the age group decreases, people under 25 years old watching the phone an average of 150 times a day, once every seven minutes.

He said mobile phone dependency due to notifications was due to the low frequency of telephone calls. About 98% of Spanish youth aged 14 to 24 use only instant messaging, which reduces the use of landlines by 12% and mobile phone calls by 24%.

The average age of Spaniards has about 33 applications installed on their devices. All send notifications to their users if they receive a message from their loved ones on social networking sites or e-commerce application offers.

Currently, most mobile phones available on the market have a "Do not Disturb" mode, which isolates the user from the virtual world and allows him to completely disconnect notifications, while allowing some exceptions to situations. ;emergency.

For Android devices, this feature is in the Settings area under the Audio option. The user can also create a whitelist of contacts that will activate sound or vibration once contacted. The same applies to SMS, calendar reminders and alerts.

In contrast, iOS offers the same tool as Android phones, in which users can choose Do Not Disturb mode and even activate certain sections if they want to activate the mode automatically at certain times of the day.