Americans touch their smartphones 2,617 times a day—a 'digital declutter' could help you regain hours
April 09, 2019 at 09:32 AM EDT
In a single day, we'll touch our smartphones 2,617 times, check email 74 times, and receive 46 notifications. We'll spend more than three hours on our phones and tablets, 40 minutes on our home computer, and almost five hours watching TV. All the screen time leads to a lot of wasted hours, but Georgetown computer science professor and best-selling author Cal Newport has a solution for how to cut back detailed in his book "Digital Minimalism."