After years of working to make the smartphone indispensable ― some might even say addictive ― Apple said Monday that it will soon provide an app designed to help people step away from the iPhone. “Some of us, we might not recognize how distracted we’ve become.”Earlier this year, two large Apple shareholders asked the company to do more to help parents prevent their children from becoming addicted to digital devices, NPR reported. Together, the California teachers’ pension fund and the Jana Partners investment group own more than $2 billion in Apple stock. The organizations asked Apple’s board of directors to provide parents options beyond a “binary” system in which tools and functions are either freely available or closed off. The feature will be included in iOS12, which is expected to be rolled out later this year.

Source: Huffington Post June 05, 2018 11:15 UTC