Instagram quietly raised the daily minimum time limit.
" a pop-up read. The Instagram app currently offers me a minimum time limit of 30 minutes. Engadget has asked Meta for clarification on when and why it made the change. The settings in the Facebook app are more granular. Users can choose any time limit in increments of five minutes. When a user reaches their chosen time limit in either app up from 10 or 15 minutes. An Instagram user told TechCrunch that the app asked them to "set a new value" for their daily time limit Instagram and Facebook have offered ways to see how long you spend using the apps each day as well as an option to set a daily usage time limit. Now Instagram started testing a "Take a Break" feature to remind users it seems Instagram has increased the minimum daily time limit setting to 30 minutes Meta said the idea was to give people more control over the length of time they spend on its apps and to "foster conversations between parents and teens" about healthy online habits. In November the timing is interesting given Facebook daily active users dropped for the first time last quarter while user growth across Meta's family of apps remained almost flat. Meta expects slower revenue growth this year due to more competition for people's time and users paying more attention to features that generate less revenue to put down their phone every so often. It's unclear why Instagram seems to have increased the minimum daily time limit. However