{"id":7672,"date":"2021-08-04T05:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2021-08-18T22:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:18:47","slug":"aussies-addicted-to-their-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/aussies-addicted-to-their-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussies Addicted to their Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aussies spend around 17 years in a lifetime staring at their phones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s one of the findings of a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviews.org\/au\/mobile\/phone-addiction-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviews.org<\/a> that revealed Aussies spend over 5 hours a day on average looking at their phones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-73x55.png 73w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-2048x1536.png 2048w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Aussie-Phone-Addiction-Survey_Survey-Stats-1-200x150.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So could you say Australian\u2019s are addicted to their phones?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, the report found that 79 percent of us check our phones within 10minutes of waking up, 75 percent feel uneasy if they leave home without their phone&#8230;and 46 percent of Australians came right and said they were addicted to their phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If this is you perhaps it\u2019s time for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviews.org\/au\/technology\/digital-detox-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital detox?<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find more details from this report at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviews.org\/au\/mobile\/phone-addiction-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reviews.org.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussies spend around 17 years in a lifetime staring at their phones.\u00a0 That\u2019s one of the findings of a new report from reviews.org that revealed Aussies spend over 5 hours a day on average looking at their phones. 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