Subscribing to your favorite YouTube channels or getting in touch with your favorite content creator is effortless.
However, being so distracted may, at times, make you miss an essential task or two.
YouTube came up with useful features to help you keep track of your viewing time.
Its up to you to stop or continue watching that video of a cat riding a turtle.
Interestingly, the timer runs when viewing clips online.
When the video stops, the timer also pauses.
The timer, however, doesnt run when watching saved videos.
With the coronavirus pandemic staging its presence, most people now spend most of their time online.
So the bedtime feature will help you use YouTube more responsibly.
How Does The Bedtime Reminder Work?
The feature practically tells you to go to bed and is available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
You will continue watching your video for ten more minutes when the reminder prompts you again.
it’s possible for you to also pick how you want to be prompted to go to sleep.
Besides the reminders, YouTube also provides other features that help you manage your screen time.
When you turn on this feature, notifications are sent silently in a specified period every day.
You have a choice to disable or customize the beginning and end times from your tweaks.
These notifications are combined in one list that is delivered at a set time of day of your liking.
You also have a choice to silence the notification hours according to your schedule.
However, by enabling the feature, you may not watch a live stream until after it has ended.
The statistics of your time watched pull from your watch history.
Setting reminders is an exciting and responsible action helping you manage your binge-watching behaviors around technology.
