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How Turning Off Push Notifications Gained 55 Minutes at University College London

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In 2019, University College London tracked students’ devices and found the average push notification interrupted them every 15 minutes. Each alert broke concentration for over two minutes, even if it was just a badge count from Instagram or a group chat ping. The team advised one change-turn off push notifications for every app that isn’t critical to your work or urgent communication. On both iPhone and Android, that’s three taps in settings: open notifications, tap each nonessential app, toggle off. UCL’s follow-up showed the students stopped losing nearly one hour daily to alerts-in exact terms, an average of 55 minutes returned to their schedules, with only urgent calls and messages still coming through.

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