Everyone knows that Facebook is a time sink.

Its easy to get lost scrolling through endless posts from people you met once, years ago.

Facebook provides tools to help track your usage and to set a daily time reminder.

Facebook Header

you’re able to only configure a daily time reminder from within the iOS or Android Facebook app.

The feature is not available for the website client.

Scroll down and tap configs and Privacy, then tap Your time on Facebook from the dropdown menu.

Article image

Tap Your time on Facebook under tweaks and Privacy.

Once in the Your time on Facebook menu, tap See Tools listed under Manage your time.

Its the bottom left box.

Article image

See Tools under Manage your time in the bottom left box.

The bottom setting in the Manage your time page is Daily time reminder.

Tap anywhere on the Daily time reminder option, to see the time configuration options.

Article image

Tap anywhere on the Daily time reminder option to pull up the time configuration options.

Configure the time reminder value youd like to set, then tap Set Reminder.

Configure the length of time you want to the daily time reminder to be set for.

Article image

The reminder isnt a hard limit, but it will trigger a notification when the time reminder is reached.

Its designed to remind you to manage your own usage rather than actively limiting it.